RC car controlled by Laptop via USB

This is the first part of my group's final year electrical engineering project. This video is still is in our prototyping and testing stage, as can be seen by our dodgy breadboard setup. We've built a usb hardware interface between the rc cars remote and our laptop. All the control signals are sent via USB from a windows application we wrote.
Hope you like it. The next step is to make a nice pcb and get it working with a pc racing wheel. Stay tuned...

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Remote
• Control
• Car
• RC
• Laptop
• USB

[djdavies83]

nice work guys, I've just got my 1st PcRc running from the parallel port, its very simple and cheap but I really like the your usb, I plan to build a scutter and use a much newer web book as the pc, it has no parallel and usb-parallel will not work, will you be releasing your circuit diagrams etc?

many thanks dave.

[gadgetRC]

Congrats on getting your first PcRc Running! I'm happy to provide you with the schematic for the circuit you see in the video above, just to get you driving. We made some extra mods to the circuit since then, but we'd kinda like to keep the final product to ourselves.

Our project officially finished last week, so i'll have a couple of extra videos coming up soon.

[roaringriku]

so what the difference between software and hardware and electrical please explain and which is more fun and exciting like building iphone or controlling object and which engineer it came from

please tell me

[gadgetRC]

The software here is all the windows code for taking the keyboard input, detecting the usb and sending data. The hardware is the electronic circuit that you see in the video.

I find the electronics the most fun, but it's good to learn software coding as well. On our team we have 2 Computer Engineering students (i'm one of those) and an Electrical Engineering student.

I hope that answers your questions :)

[prathik728]

Geek!

[josephhoffman89]

howd you do that

[prepseb]

Hi, I have a question for you,

I want to control a helicopter from my PC but it's not like a RC car. It's not just a ON/Off circuit but it use potentiometer. How can I control these from my computer? Thanks!!

Seb

[AJHunt17]

Good Day!

Can you please provide the circuit diagram for this whole project? It would really great if you do because we have a computer interfacing project at our school and I am an electronics and communications engg student there. Please do reply. Thnx a lot dude!

[seantom88]

This looks great. Could I also get a copy of your circuit diagram? I would love to try this out I'm going to school to be an electrical engineer next year.

[roaringriku]

which is like mostly robot hand control and controlling