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K0r34nB0y
18-04-2004, 21:44
Hey all!
During this off season, some of my teams programmers, electricians and I are going to attempt to make a robot simulator box. What we're going to try to do is make a box with LED's and analog guages on it to display the outputs from an RC without a computer or a robot. If anyone has any idea how to do some of this, comments would be greatly appreciated.

CyberWolf_22
18-04-2004, 22:29
The relay outputs would no be that hard with two leds and resisters for each output for fwd and rev. The pwm outputs I do not know an easy way to do.

NoRemorse
18-04-2004, 22:48
You'd most likly just have a dashbourd to display the analog values. probably the leats painful way. That or buy a seperate prossecor to make the pwm signals into lcd display or what have you. Wish I could be more helpful!

K0r34nB0y
19-04-2004, 16:00
We were thinking about maybe using an edubot or BASIC stamp as part of it, or maybe even an old rc. Still thinking of ideas. Anyone else have any suggestions?

golf_cart_john
19-04-2004, 20:16
This might work for your anolog outputs:

-Wire up your Victors like normal
-Get some lights; maybe a big flashlight bulb would work
-Wire the lights to the Victors instead of the motors

Not exactly a pretty LED gauge, but it'll give you a general idea of what's going on.