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Re: Marry RC cars and autonomous control
Over the summer I was playing around with using an arduino to interface IR distance sensors and RC control of an RC car. The idea was that the car would be "un-crash-able" because when an IR sensor "saw" something it would limit the amount of power the motor was getting. Since the RC car I had simply used PWM from a receiver to a motor controller I just put the arduino in between and then the plan was to modify the output to the motor controller based on the input from the receiver and whether or not anything was in the way. Unfortunately I never got around to finishing the code, I'm more of a mechanical person. Here's a pic:
http://twitpic.com/7039y
http://twitpic.com/70371
Good luck in your endeavor and if you need a cheap but good micro controller I personally love the arduino. Arduino website:
http://www.arduino.cc/
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ME Student at Northeastern University, Captain of the NUTRONs #125 FRC
Former member of VEXELLENT and Cranbrook Robotics
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