PIC 16F887 bluetooth controlled tank (stage 1)

I have been working on this for a few months, the odd half an hour here and there when I felt like it. Basically I have taken a 1:16th scale radio control model tank, added a couple of tiny 10 amp motor drivers of my own design, then designed and created a basic control circuit board using a 20MHz pic16f887 microcontroller with about 260 lines of my own code on board (at the moment) plus a tiny bluetooth module to allow wireless communications from my Archos 70 Android fondle slab via a bluetooth telnet app from the Google market place.

At the moment it is all very simple stuff, I have only implemented a brief set of very simple commands Stop, Forward, Backward, LeftTurn and RightTurn which I can tap the initial letter of on my slab (or on any other bluetooth equipped device like a laptop).

The "robot" does not understand where it is, nor what direction it is pointing in, nor how far it has travelled, nor how fast it should be going, nor whether it is travelling straight, nor whether it has collided with anything, all that will be for the future. The fondle slab (or another smaller Android device) will eventually be integrated into the tank itself and the WiFi connection on the slab will provide the telemetry backhaul from around the garden or inside the house. I have a partially written an Android application to bridge the Bluetooth to WiFi comms using telnet protocol. The Android device will be used for navigational algorithms and trignometric calculations and the higher level "brain" of the robot, whereas the pic16f887 microcontroller will manage things at the device level handling simple tasks like "turn to a particular direction" or "move forward in a straight line for a particular distance".

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• pic16f887
• 16f887
• microcontroller
• bluetooth
• archos
• 70
• android
• pic16f887a
• 16f887a

[tereduce]

What Android program did you use?? Thanks :))

[LightMaterials]

@tereduce I used the blueterm Android application.



[HeeLSC27]

Excuse me,I'm student and I want to do the project which like this clip(control PIC by bluetooth)

Please help me, Tell me what should I do how can I do.

[nigete]

awesome wireless tank, wasd keys might be funner though XD