Driving a Car with an iPhone and cRIO (Part 1 - Overview) Waterloo Labs Episode 03

In part 1 of this episode we give a overview of how we turned an Oldsmobile Delta '88 into a remote control car in just 4 weeks. We built our control systems using a few motors, potentiometers, a Compact RIO embedded controller, and LabVIEW. We then set up wi-fi communication so we can drive the car from an iPhone as well as from a modified Power Wheels truck. For detailed plans, parts lists and code available for download, check out our website www.WaterlooLabs.com

If you want to build something like this yourself you can all the same parts at http://bit.ly/NI-RoCK

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Waterloo Labs
• engineer
• awesome
• iPhone
• car
• remote control
• DIY
• cRIO
• compact RIO
• LabVIEW
• hack
• drive
• delta 88
• national
• instruments
• cars
• automobile
• FIRST
• ROBOTICS
• FRC
• OMGRobots
• ipod
• real
• wrench
• autonomous

[KC9RXB]

CRIO+Modules: $4000

Motors and gear boxes: $300

Junk car: $900

Convincing you neighbors your a mad scientist: Priceless

[WaterlooLabs]

Actually, the controller, modules, power distribution board, battery, motor controllers is available for 1,800 retail. The NI RoCK is the retail version of the FIRST Robotics Competition Kit of Parts which thousands of students around the world have (less expensive for teams). bit(dot)ly/NI-RoCK

The car was only $300 on Craig's list and we pulled the motors out of the doors from the car. The only other parts we had was metal bars, a sproket and a motorcycle chain.

[kad878]

can you pls show how to use labview to drive the car?

[WaterlooLabs]

ummm, thats kind of what the video does. You can find the LabVIEW code we used here bit (dot) ly/iPhoneCarCode

[basimpsn]

Fake using the iphone to control the a real car. The Iphone dont have external I/O interface only for audio and programing the phone. Now if you were to call another phone using your iphone then use the keypad tone and a decoder on the remote phone for left and right input you could convince me lol.

[WaterlooLabs]

We wrote a custom app and used WiFi to communicate with our controller in the car. No wires needed. Be sure to check out the video response where our developer talks about the iphone app he wrote.

[MagicMan874]

how fars the range...like can u sit in ur lounge room and drive the car to mexico using only ur iphone...

while ur watching tv :D

[macattackno1]

In the potentiometer diagram, the dial was turning the wrong way to increase the resistance.

[Andrew Haley]

Wow

[KC9RXB]

Interesting, Im on a first robotics team and i know we can get our CRIO's for about $500 with the modules but i thought that was only for first teams. Thanks for showing me this.

[AlvaAmparoox116]

lool keiner deutsch hihi

[KickUrToe]

If I had those......People will stare at me while I sit at the back and nobodys at the drivers seat

[nikobelic25000]

This is the future.

[Shankscank1]

first, alot of the code is pre made on labview if you get the FRC (First Robotics Competition) version, also almost everything in the car is what a common frc robot contains so theres no special code most of its pre made, as for the iphone theres an app called driverstation look it up and that can be used to run any labview code downloaded to the cRIO easily wireless all you need is the ip of the crio usually:10.xx.yy.5 which would be your team name and change your wifi ip to 10.xx.yy.6

[CarliShinvi485]

najo niemand deutsch hihi