Picaxe 08M Rc Car
@ April 3, 2011
- CPU: picaxe 08M
Hi guys,
For a while now I have wanted to buy a cheap toy car and make it RC. I was at the cheap shop the other day and found a few $2 toy cars. The cars were super light and did not have much inside of them which made them perfect for the job.
I decided to use the picaxe 08M chip as the brain for this project as I havent really ever used anything other than the standard Start Here Robot board and I wanted to see how powerful this little guy was! My choice of control was IR with a standard Universal IR remote control aslo from the cheap shop! Inside the car is 1 Picaxe 08M 1 Rear modified micro servo 1 Front standard micro servo 1 piezo speaker 2 5mm Green Leds I had to mount the battery pack to the roof of the car but it seems to fit rather nicely on the roof racks! I then taped on the IR receiver to the top of the battery pack.
Im still rather new in the world of robotics but I got the little guy going the way I wanted!
Thanks guys!
@ Fri, 2011-04-08 20:37
Hey nice job. I just tore
Hey nice job. I just tore apart cheap RC Truck and found out that the steering was done via cheap DC motor. Can you show how did you implement the servo steering because I kinda stuck on the steering.
@ Sun, 2011-04-24 17:55
Have You Tried...
I have a cheapo RC car that i want to eventually hack. I wired up an AA to the steering motor and found that when i left the contacts open the wheels centered with a spring and then would turn dependant on which way round i put the battery.
1 AA wasnt even nearly enough power so it did barely turn when i took the wheels off (very heavy ones though) but it should be enough to establish if that control method would work
@ Sun, 2011-04-03 23:02
Very nice toy modifications
Very nice toy modifications you did. May I ask how did you integrate the IR control? And a little more on the wiring please :-)
@ Mon, 2011-04-04 02:01
Nice !!
Nice !! My brother and I call if the Dollar Store
@ Sun, 2011-04-03 17:44
wow thanks cool !!!! ppl may
wow thanks cool !!!! ppl may mistake the remote as a TV remote :P
those LED's makes it look even more cool! :D
@ Sun, 2011-04-03 17:41
I'm a fan of the Picaxe 08,
I'm a fan of the Picaxe 08, and I have a few similar little cars. I modified one to add a a motor, batteries and a power switch, but no brains. Maybe someday... (That pile keeps getting higher.)
You did a nice job with the build and integrating IR control. Would you post your code?