The RC Car Hack - Part 3 - Getting Inside your RC Car

The RC Car Hack - Part 3
Getting Inside Your RC Car


Summary

Identify the important parts of your RC Car and get rid of the rest.

Tutorial Contents

     This tutorial is broken into many parts/posts as there is plenty of content to show.

1. Introduction
2. Description of items/stuff used
3. Getting inside your RC Car
4. More soon...
5. Code used (Reference)

Get inside your RC car

Gut it out – The first thing I did was open my car up.  I found the board that everything is attached to and cut it out.  (There are transistors you can salvage from the old board and use to control the motors but it’s complicated.  To save you time from my experience, I wouldn’t recommend it unless you have experience with circuits.)

Typical case– I don’t know what your RC car looks like but most RC cars are the same.  In many RC cars, the front two wheels are controlled by a servo and the back two are controlled by a motor.  In the above stated case, the front wheels control the direction of the car and the back two wheels will push or pull the car.

This case – The car used in this project does not have a servo.  It has two motors.  One motor for wheels on the left side and one motor for the wheels on the right side.    If your car is the typical case, you will need 
to look at how to control a servo, it’s not hard just google it.





Comments/Questions?
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