{"id":179,"date":"2012-03-17T14:52:35","date_gmt":"2012-03-17T19:52:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gamadiyo.com\/blog\/?p=179"},"modified":"2012-03-18T00:51:26","modified_gmt":"2012-03-18T05:51:26","slug":"arduino-rc-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gamadiyo.com\/blog\/?p=179","title":{"rendered":"Arduino: RC Car"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had bought a RC Car from walmart for about $15 to use with the Arduino Motorshield a while back (see here<\/a>). Fortunately, I had taken some pictures before I removed the RC receiver circuit from it. Turns out that its lot more efficient to use the onboard controller along with an Arduino instead of using a motorshield. I didnt some research and found out that many “cheap” RC cars use the same Realtek TX2 & RX2 chips inside. I was lucky enough to find the same inside this RC car.<\/p>\n

I was able to connect 5 wires to the Arduino and control the car by sending a HIGH signal directly to the RX2 chip. Here are the in assignments.<\/p>\n

Arduino \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0RX2<\/strong>
\nGround \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 PIN2 (GND)
\nPIN 13 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0PIN11 (Forward)
\nPIN 12 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0PIN10 (Backward)
\nPIN 11 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0PIN6 (Right)
\nPIN 10 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0PIN7 (Left)<\/p>\n

The 2 motors and the RX2 circuit is powered by 3xAA batteries in the car itself and the Arduino UNO was powered by a 9V battery. I also decided to add a PING sensor to make the car backup automatically when it comes close to something. The code is not perfect as you can see in the video, but it can be modified later.<\/p>\n

TX2RX2<\/a>.doc (Realtek TX2 & RX2 info)<\/p>\n

CarBotPing<\/a>.pde (Arduino Code)<\/p>\n\n\t\t