{"id":1338,"date":"2018-07-26T22:39:49","date_gmt":"2018-07-26T21:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ofalcao.pt\/blog\/?p=1338"},"modified":"2018-07-27T09:44:58","modified_gmt":"2018-07-27T08:44:58","slug":"the-new-lego-powered-up-remote-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofalcao.pt\/blog\/2018\/the-new-lego-powered-up-remote-control","title":{"rendered":"The new LEGO Powered Up Remote Control"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"seriesmeta\">This post is part 1 of 2 of \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ofalcao.pt\/blog\/series\/lego-powered-up-remote-control\" class=\"series-337\" title=\"LEGO Powered Up Remote Control\">LEGO Powered Up Remote Control<\/a><\/div><p>This week I got a question from <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/nathankunicki\">Nathan Kunicki<\/a>\u00a0about using the BOOST Tacho Motor with the new Powered Up hub.<\/p>\n<p>He already succeeded with the other WeDo 2 and BOOST devices so the motor was the last challenge. So I tried a few ideas but nothing.<\/p>\n<p>I told him that probably the motor was not supported by the current firmware&#8230; and then he told me that when we use the new Remote it works (as if a WeDo 2 motor, just ON or OFF).<\/p>\n<p>Well&#8230; my lovely wife just gave me this weekend my future birthday gift: the new LEGO Cargo Train. And it has a Powered Up remote so&#8230; let me try it.<\/p>\n<p>No, we couldn&#8217;t find a way to control the motor. But I learned a bit about the Remote (thanks <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/nathankunicki\">Nathan<\/a>!) Enough to use it as a standalone BLE controller without the LEGO Powered Up &#8220;HUB NO.4&#8243;&#8230; it&#8217;s so easy that any BLE master can use it.<\/p>\n<p>And, of course, the MINDSTORMS EV3 when running ev3dev:<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Using a LEGO Powered Up Train Remote Control with MINDSTORMS EV3\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fiuWAwkddAA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>to be continued&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"seriesmeta\">This post is part 1  of 2 of \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ofalcao.pt\/blog\/series\/lego-powered-up-remote-control\" class=\"series-337\" title=\"LEGO Powered Up Remote Control\">LEGO Powered Up Remote Control<\/a><\/div><p>This week I got a question from Nathan Kunicki\u00a0about using the BOOST Tacho Motor with the new Powered Up hub. He already succeeded with the other WeDo 2 and BOOST devices so the motor was the last challenge. So I tried a few ideas but nothing. I told him that probably the motor was not &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ofalcao.pt\/blog\/2018\/the-new-lego-powered-up-remote-control\" class=\"more-link\">Continuar a ler<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The new LEGO Powered Up Remote Control&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[38,157,13,19,158,20,148,299],"tags":[332,336],"series":[337],"class_list":["post-1338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ble","category-ev3dev-en","category-ev3dev","category-lego-mindstorms","category-lego-mindstorms-en","category-linux","category-linux-en","category-mindstorms","tag-powered-up","tag-remote","series-lego-powered-up-remote-control"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Mhyv-lA","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofalcao.pt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofalcao.pt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofalcao.pt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofalcao.pt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofalcao.pt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ofalcao.pt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofalcao.pt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofalcao.pt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofalcao.pt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1338"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofalcao.pt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=1338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}