Turn on your PS2 joystick, and they should both go solid.
Alan KM6VV
I cant remember from last night because I worked on step 17 before I went to bed, but in my previous post I said that the Receiver green light blinks and the red stays constant which may be wrong. Anyways this morning when I turned on my robot the Receiver green light stays on constant and the red one blinks. KM6VV when you say turn on the PS2 joystick should I do it before I turn on my robot, or after, at the same time? I did all these and the green light still blinks and the red stays constant. When I turn on the joystick do I need to push any of the buttons (analog, start, select)? When turning on the joystick should the red or green led on it do anything?
Pull the 4 position plug from PS2 controller cable from the Bot board. (I’m asking you to do this to remove the Atom and it’s code from the system) The PS2 Tx and Rx will sync up with only power applied…
Turn the power to the robot on.
Turn the thing you hold in your hands on.
The red LED should blink a few times and glow steady.
When I pulled the PS2 plug from the Bot Board and turned the robot on the ABC LEDs all lit up amd made the constant beeping noise as in my video. I turned on the remote and nothing happened, the red LED did not blink. The Receiver still had a solid green light and the red one blinking. When I put the PS2 plug back in, turned on the rebot I got the couple of beeps from the Bot Board and the Receiver is still the same. Im pretty sure I have the plug put in correctly, 12-Brown and 15-Blue Blk/Wht wire on the outside.
Also I have been bit before: Make sure the power you are supplying to the PS2 is +5v not VS. I have accidentally had the wrong jumper setting on the power going to the PS2 and it would not sync.
Kurt
I have an old Lynxmotion PS2 controller that finally died this weekend(after lots of torture). Could your problem be something like this? My dead controller power LED will light up but the sync LED does nothing.
I checked my jumper and its in the correct place of +5v. My controller is fairly new I bought it back in March of this year, its a Lynmotion so there should be no problem with a different brand. I was curious back to step 17 when it is says When the program is run, there will be a series of beeps telling you that the Atom is trying to communicate with the PS2 game controller. How long do these beeps normally last? I ran the rover program again and got the beeps but they were four ascending ones. Kinda like back in step 8 when it says Upon powering up the robot, you should hear four ascending notes. I dont know if that means anything or helps. Receiver still the same of green blinking and red solid. I noticed that in the forum there were suggestions of trying to use the PS2 controller on a PS2. I dont have one Im sure one of my neighbors do. I’ll also put in new batteries in the controller later on today.
zman, you have been told to remove the jumpers that enable the buttons and leds. They are by the number 2 in xans post above. Can you please do it?
Ok…here is my setup now. I removed the three jumpers by the number 2, I plugged the PS2 Receiver back into the Bot Board, and I replaced the batteries in the controller with new ones. I turned the robot on, then the controller and it works guys. The Receiver LEDs are a solid green and red light when I turn on the controller, and the red LED on the controller stays on for a couple of seconds then turns off. I went through Table 17-1 - 17-3 to make sure that everything works, a few minor things I noticed. In the rover mode they move fwd/rev correctly and the D pad does work shifting gears. The only problem is when I stop, the motors still creep along in reverse slowly. Im not touching the joysticks and it even does it when I switch to the arm mode. Im thinking it has to do with my Ch1/Ch2 problem with the wires being lose that I posted about. In the arm mode everything works fine except the gripper. When I push the X button it does not fully open the gripper. Also, the gripper does not respond to the L1 and L2 buttons. I havent looked into the gripper servo yet besides touching it to see if it was hot, which it wasnt.
Not to be rushing things…but besides the things that I mentioned about the motors/gripper am I done with the tutorial? Still a little curious about this lynxmotion.com/images/html/build034.htm and if its something I have to do.
Thanks.
Wow it works eh? 
Wonderful!
Ok the creeping backwards is easy to fix. Look at step 12 of the tutorial. The offset finder program is where you adjust the offsets to stop the creeping. Please review step 12… I guess you didn’t do this step?
I did run the servo offset program before and my results were exactly the same as in Table 15-1 of the tutorial: all servos were con 0, RightChNeutral con 1500, LeftChNeutral con 1500. I thought it was a coincidence but didnt think much of it. I wil run the program again tomorrow and see what happens and will also look into why the gripper servo is not responding to the PS2 remote. Curious if the gripper will respond to the servo offset test. I do have one question…am I able to make my robot turn left and right and spin around , not just foward and reverse like in the youtube video? Since I am using the Bot Board and a PS2 controller am I able to create and run programs of my own? Im thinking since I am using a remote I am limited to certain moves. Is this correct? This is my Senior Project before I graduate and I found a video on youtube of what I want my robot to do for my presentation. Will this be possible? I still have two more months before I graduate. Still cant believe my robot is wireless. When I got home tonight from class I played with it for a little bit and my dogs freaked out and started barking, lol. Thanks for the help so far 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImNEj4KAIoQ
No this is not possible. You have made a mistake somewhere… When you run the program do the servos move at all when you press the buttons? 
That would be a good test.
Sigh. Yes your robot should be able to turn as well as go forward and back. 
Yes you should be able to create your own programs for it.
I have no idea what you are asking.
I am going to need to see some close up, clear, in focus, images of your wiring in order to provide any more help.
Ok…I ran the servo offset program again to fix the problem I was having with my motors still creeping along and my gripper not responding and it worked except for one thing. Now when I run my robot with my controller the Gripper movements are in reverse from Table 17-3. L1-Gripper Open (instead of close), L2-Gripper Close (instead of open), and X fully closes the gripper instead of opens it. Its not a big deal to me, its something I can get used to. If you have an explanation thats cool. Id like to learn about why its doing it. I can see why you sighed about when I asked if I can make my robot turn I did the same thing when I figured it out, lol. Looking at the youtube video again it looks like its being controlled by the remote and not a program. It looks pretty simple for something I can do for my presentation. When you mentioned that you need images of my wiring is it for programming the robot? Now that I am complete with the tutorial I can start posting in another part of the Forum for questions.