ESP8266 Robotics Projects

Creating a Blynk app

The following steps will describe how to modify the Mini Round Robot Blynk app you built in Chapter 2, Building a Mini Round Robot with Original ESP8266, to read and display the distance traveled and average speed of the chassis:

1. Open the Mini Round Robot Blynk app (Figure 3.5). Switch the app to the EDIT mode if it is in the PLAY mode:

Figure 3.5: The Mini Round Robot app created in chapter 2, Building a Mini Round Robot with Original ESP8266

2. Tap on the Widget Box icon to get the list of widgets. Then, tap on the Labeled Value widget under the DISPLAYS section (Figure 3.6):

Figure 3.6: The Labeled Value widget