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by joolsbamford
Thu Oct 13, 2016 5:58 am
Forum: micro:bit boards
Topic: BBC MicroBit radio send/receive - data packet is not a string?
Replies: 11
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Re: BBC MicroBit radio send/receive - data packet is not a string?

I had a play with it and got it working just right for me by adding sleep(50) to both the controller and driver code. I found I had to add a sleep to both codes to get the desired result. :D Thanks for all your help. _____CONTROLLER_____ from microbit import * import radio radio.on() while True: rea...
by joolsbamford
Wed Oct 12, 2016 5:59 am
Forum: micro:bit boards
Topic: BBC MicroBit radio send/receive - data packet is not a string?
Replies: 11
Views: 13077

Re: BBC MicroBit radio send/receive - data packet is not a string?

Good work. Thank you. I will try that when I get back from work tonight. I think I tried some sleep commands in the driver code but it didn't solve the problem. I didn't think to add them to the sending code as you suggest. It will be really great to get this working for the kids on Thursday. Thanks...
by joolsbamford
Tue Oct 11, 2016 7:35 pm
Forum: micro:bit boards
Topic: BBC MicroBit radio send/receive - data packet is not a string?
Replies: 11
Views: 13077

Re: BBC MicroBit radio send/receive - data packet is not a string?

Thanks for the reply. Always get the same message. I started using forward, backwards, left and right. When this didn't work I Shortened it as shown in code. Also tried numbers. Also tried Send_bytes and receive_bytes. Same error msg every time.
by joolsbamford
Mon Oct 10, 2016 11:41 pm
Forum: micro:bit boards
Topic: BBC MicroBit radio send/receive - data packet is not a string?
Replies: 11
Views: 13077

BBC MicroBit radio send/receive - data packet is not a string?

Evening all, I am trying to get a seemingly simple remote control car project to work with 2 Microbits but keep getting the same error message. The controller code measures which way the controller is being tilted and sends out a f,b,l or r message to the motor board. The controller code seems to wo...