RC Car

Forenote: RC may stand for either Remote Control, or Radio Control.

This is the implementation of a Radio Controlled (RC) car scaled 1-16. When talking about “implementation” I refer to the electromechanical assembly of the parts required, their wiring and microcontroller programming.

The goal is to move the car around telepathically (no just kidding) using a transmitter i.e. remotely controlling it via radio frequency signal waves and technology used to decode and encode those signals on the receive and transmitter ends respectively.

Hardware & Software used:

• the popular programmable MSP430 microcontroller chip (MCU) from Texas Instruments
• HC-06 Bluetooth module
• L293D(ne) H-bridge chip
• IAR Embedded Workbench 7 for Windows, student license for programming
• Windows 8.1 x86_64
• Tera Term and Putty for IO serial comms via UART interface.

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