Applying the basic stamp to control an R/C car

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• Archiver Posts: 46,084

  2003-11-04 15:57 edited 2003-11-04 15:57

  Hello Azimi,
  
  I'm also trying to control my R/C car, from my computer. I bought a book
  last week, "Linux Toys", and chapter 14 is on "Controlling Toy Cars". In the
  book the authors bought a controller board, LynX-PORT multipurpose I/O
  board, $239.
  
  The book says the board gives them eight programmable DPDT relays to control
  the toy cars. My guess is I can create the DPDT relays with my Basic Stamp
  and my StampWorks NX-1000 board, that I already own.
  
  I'm new in the eletronics field, so I don't know where to start. Saturday I
  went to the RadioShack and I bought their Electronics Learning Lab, on sale
  for $49, and I'm on page 26 in the Forrest Mims workbook, "Resistors and How
  to Use Them".
  
  
  
  Looking for help .....
  
  Steve
  
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  From: "christopherazimi" <christopherazimi@y...>
  To: <basicstamps@yahoogroups.com>
  Sent: Monday, November 03, 2003 11:19 PM
  Subject: [noparse][[/noparse]basicstamps] Applying the basic stamp to control an R/C car
  
  
  > Hi,
  >
  > I have a radio shack r/c car. Its got twin motor's and proportional
  > control. For right now I want to use the basic stamp to just make it
  > move around. The I would like to put GPS on it. I am 15 and just
  > doing this for fun. I anyone has any tips please help.
  >
  > Thanks,
  >
  > Azimi
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• Archiver Posts: 46,084

  2003-11-04 16:46 edited 2003-11-04 16:46

  i did this project as one of my quarter projects at school.
  you can control the rc car very simple. i used the 434Mhz transmitter and
  receiver found at www.rentron.com
  but parallax has one also. the rentron reciever has a decoder chip that
  has 8 digital and 8 analog outputs.
  i used an old Gaming Joystick, and it had two slide potentiometers inside.
  just by using RC time if the resistance got to a specific level
  the car would just turn left right forward or reverse. i used an H bridge
  to control the motors. the only difference in my car was that i used 2
  BS2's one as the transmitter and one on the recieving end so that i could
  control the servo. and i put some futuristic police lights on the car. hope
  your project works out. Gary D
  
  
  
  At 04:19 AM 11/4/2003 +0000, you wrote:
  >Hi,
  >
  >I have a radio shack r/c car. Its got twin motor's and proportional
  >control. For right now I want to use the basic stamp to just make it
  >move around. The I would like to put GPS on it. I am 15 and just
  >doing this for fun. I anyone has any tips please help.
  >
  >Thanks,
  >
  >Azimi
  >
  >
  >
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