Based on the previous article that uses a single esp8266 for controlling the Agent, the number of pins that the esp8266 microcontroller (as written in the MicroPython article about machine.Pin) is limited. Many of the pins are used at boot up causing unintended errors such as the wheel spinning when the system starts and stops when the system finishes booting, etc. Therefore, in this article, a microcontroller board LGT8F328P is added as shown in Figure 1, or the reader may change to other Arduino family microcontrollers, such as Arduino Nano or Arduino Uno, etc. by giving that LGT8F328P is part of the Actuator that acts as a movement in the environment. It can be commanded to go forward, backward, turn left, turn right and stop, reducing the workload of the esp8266 and making it more responsive to WiFi communication.

From the article Controlling a Servo 2-Wheel Robot in the ESP8266+RoboServo and the DC electric motor in VisionRobo Car: Drive Motor, we have taken the 2nd built-in robot car from the Raspberry Pi to the ESP8266 to operate via WiFi using the guidelines from the ESP-01s+Relay article. Let’s rewrite Arduino’s C/C++ with the WebServer class from the ESP8266 article to MicroPython. Thus, by the end of this article, the robot can be operated in the first example by connecting a phone or communication device. Go to 192.168.4.1 and order it to go forward, backward, turn left, turn right, or stop.