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This will show you how to add extra MOTOR and MOVEMENT blocks to your programming palette and how to use those blocks to reset your motors to ZERO
1.Begin by going to the bottom, left corner of your window and select the "MORE BLOCKS" icon.
2. Select "More Motors" and "More Movement"
3. Close the window.
4. Go to the left side of the programming palette where all the dots are.
Scroll all the way to the bottom.
5. You will now see that there are two additional choices.
6. Choose "MORE MOTORS"
7. You will choose the second block in this new list to create a program that will reset your motors to zero.
8. To create the program, choose the EVENT block that says
"when left Button is pressed"
Then add the other two blocks making sure to set the parameters for the motors to C and D so that they are set to your drive motors - the motors that will move the robot.
9. Now, go up to the hub icon, and click on it to open your hub connection/dashboard
10. You will see a down arrow next to each motor, select that arrow to get a drop down menu.
11. Select "RELATIVE POSITION".
Do this for both motors C and D.
12. Once that is done for both motors C and D, close the hub connection/ dashboard.
13. Now you can reset your motors to ZERO.
Click the play button to execute your program.
EXECUTE means to "carry out" or to "do". When a robot executes a command, it just means that it DOES it.
14. Now, before you do the next step, look at the hub dashboard.
15. For this next part to work, your robot has to be sitting still.
Now, with the program running, and the robot sitting VERY still, you will gently press the left button on the hub.
If you followed all the steps, you will have now successfully zeroed your motors! Yay!!
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