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By guibot

February 28, 2009
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This is my first attempt to make a custom remote controller, and also my first customized Arduino.
After seeing this post made by ObbBot I wanted to try to make one myself.

I figured that if I purchase one remote controller it would be cheaper than buying two of these and paying shipment to Portugal.

So, ripping the guts from a game remote controller I get two joysticks, a couple of buttons, two nice motors and one small lcd.

Each joystick have one button inside wich is cool  :-)

Now I have more control over my bots, specially the ones with two motors.. will post videos later.

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By guibot
@ Thu, 2009-08-27 03:23
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added a walkthrough to build the GRemote: ZIP FILE HERE

 

By fritsl
@ Sun, 2009-03-01 11:57
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Consider more inputs; see here: http://letsmakerobots.com/node/5492#comment-17849
By guibot
@ Sun, 2009-03-01 13:18
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in the front of the joysticks I have some space left to add two more button and perhaps another joystick  :-)
By OddBot
@ Sat, 2009-02-28 05:55
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That's great! I think I'll end up going to an Xbee or something similar because the IR doesn't work in sunlight and is too slow.
By Chris the Carpenter
@ Sat, 2009-02-28 03:31
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Could I get a model number on that xbee modual?
By robologist
@ Sat, 2009-02-28 17:46
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Looks like Gui used LadyAda's XBee adapter, to bring the narrow pins of the XBee out to normal 0.1 spaced, and maybe add RS232 levels.

Those XBee Pros can send/rec for about a mile line of sight.

By guibot
@ Sat, 2009-02-28 18:11
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Yes I´m using Ladyada´s adapter, its very good and simple to use and already saved me from burning the xbee module because I connected the power and ground backwards..  :)
By Rudolph
@ Sat, 2009-02-28 09:04
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Looks like a XBP24-AWI-001 (@SparkFun, cheaper@Mouser)

The W in AWI appears to signify the antenna mount. U is a U.FL connector, W would be a wire antenna, and C is a chip antenna.

The "PRO" part should make it 50 or 60mW, but it looks like the 60 (the 50 has some extra copper pads on top)

By guibot
@ Sat, 2009-02-28 10:08
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yes it´s the 60mW, you can see here more specifications