The RC Car Hack - Part 2
Description of Items Used
Summary
Tutorial Contents
Description of Items Used
Summary
This following is a description of all the items used in this RC Car Hack tutorial.
Tutorial Contents
This tutorial is broken into many parts/posts as there is plenty of content to show.
- Introduction
- Description of items/stuff used
- Getting inside your RC Car
- More soon...
- Code used (Reference)
Stuff used
RC car
Description – There are plenty of RC Cars to be found. The one for this project was found at Goodwill for $1.99. For this project, we are only using toy RC cars like the ones found at Wal-mart for 20 – 40 dollars. Unless you really want to, I do not recommend spending any money on the RC car. Ask family or go find a garage sale. Finding RC cars slightly damaged and/or without the remote control make them worth less (to others) but definitely not worthless (to us).
Description – This project uses the Arduino Duemilanove to control the RC car. An Arduino is very inexpensive, versatile, and fun. It can be reused for any project in your imagination. If you have never used an Arduino before, it is very easy to learn and great community support. The Arduino portion of this project relied on the Arduino community.
Description – The motor shield will make motor control very easy for us. It goes above the arduino and is connection by stackable pins. Although there are other ways to control motors, I would highly recommend just using this motor shield. This motor shield is inexpensive. It will let us control motor direction (forward/reverse), speed, and we can easily add separate power.
Description – I found this bluetooth modem to be great. This bluetooth modem connects to the arduino and will let the arduino speak and listen to others. As a general overview, the bluetooth modem (attached to the arduino) will connect to the bluetooth on my computer.
Description – This is what you will need to compile and upload the code that will go to the arduino. It’s free.
Description – If you don’t have Visual Studio 2008 or 2010, go get it. You can get the express edition of C#.
Description – Bluetooth for your computer. If you don’t already have one, they can be found for about $20 at many places.
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I'm always wanting to improve the quality of the content here. If you have questions, want to see a better explanation, a better picture, let me know. Thanks - Sean
I'm always wanting to improve the quality of the content here. If you have questions, want to see a better explanation, a better picture, let me know. Thanks - Sean
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