Can someone PLEASE HELP!!!
After following the Phoenix setup tutorial line by line again with a second Bot board 2 and a second Basic Atom Pro 28 installed i still get the car alarm sound effect from the Board and none of the LEDs on the PS2 receiver are lit, AGAIN!!! Why??? Am i doing something wrong? I feel like I’ve wasted my money on this kit. I am very disappointed. I don’t have a PS2 to test the receiver on. Does this mean i now have to buy one just to test the PS2 Wireless receiver? Why cant these chips and stuff come pre-programmed.
Always helps to have more information, like which tutorial are you using. I am assuming: lynxmotion.com/images/html/build159.htm
Note: I would bring up the tutorial, but, my network is having some issues…
Did you purchased the kit from Lynxmotion with their PS2 receiver? Can you post a picture showing your wiring as well as the jumper settings. Again without seeing your wiring can not tell you why the PS2 is not connecting. Also If you are having PS2 issues, I would start off looking at the PS2 test program, which I think is in the tutorial: lynxmotion.com/images/html/build034.htm
Kurt
Hey Kurt. Yes i am using build 159. Yes i purchased the kit from Lynxmotion and the receiver. Pictures attached. I was sent a Female to female two way servo connector and a three way one too, thats why i had to improvise a little with the connections to pins 10 and 11 on the BB2. For some reason i cant copy and paste pictures into this text window. How do i upload pics into this text box?
The way to upload pictures, is to use the Post Reply button (and not the quick reply button). In the more complete response page you will see a tab called Upload attachment (below the text editing position). Click on it, browse to the file to upload and click on the Add the file… Once it has uploaded, there is a button or the like to say show inline, which places the atachment directly into your posting. If you don’t it will simply show up as a link at the bottom of the posting…
It does not want to upload the Pics. After checking all my connections between the two boards as soon as i connect the SSC32 TX (yellow cable) to the pin 10 of my BB2 the power light on the BB2 goes on and the SSC32 is sending the sound output to the BB2. Is this supposed to happen? Everything’s OK when I programmed the SSC32, it went immediately to ALL 1500. I saved the settings as per build 159. What now? I also notice that both the red LEDs on the wireless receiver don’t come on at all! When i turn on the transmitter, the red and green LEDs flash for a few seconds then go out until i press the Start button or Analogue button. is all this normal behaviors? Also, instead of getting a PS2 cable to plug the receiver into, i got a level shifter with a plug for the receiver on one side and a couple of pins on the other. Why is there no mention of this device anywhere?
Hi Randall,
It’s odd that you can’t upload images. Do you get an error message?
The Bot Board II shouldn’t be powering on by simply plugging in the SSC-32 TX connector: did you remove the red wire like indication in Figure 13 / Step 13?
To plug in the level shifter into the Bot Board, you can partly refer to the image at bottom of the of this page, however instead of plugging the remote into pins 6 through 9 of the BotBoarduino, you’ll want to plug the connectors (in the same orientations) into pins 12 through 15 of the Bot Board II.
The end result is you should have the top row (nearest to the Basic ATOM chip) of pin 12 (of the Bot Board) plugged into the DAT pin (of the level shifter), pin 13 into CMD, pin 14 into ATT, pin 15 into CLK, and the two other pins plugged into 5V and GND on the level shifter.
Here’s an image that shows the same information:
Once you have the shifter/receiver plugged in this way, the lights on the receiver should turn on when you power on the robot: at first the lights will blink, but then turn solid once the PS2 remote is on and paired/connected. This should also make the beeping stop.
Please let us know if this helps or if we can continue to debug your problems.
Thanks for choosing Lynxmotion,