RC car

Use (TGY) iA6C receiver and Arduino Nano board to save old and broken Nikko VaporizR 2 RC car.

Description

Materials

• 1x Arduino Nano board
• 1x radio receiver (TGY-iA6C)
• 2x 260 mini DC motor (3V - 12V)
• 1x ZK-BM1 DC motor drive module (10A, 3V - 18V)
• 1x AMS1117 step down power module (6.5V - 12V => 5V)
• wires

Used libraries

• Library for PPM communication: Arduino-PPM

!! Thank you all for your work !!

Installation and Usage

1. Solder everything
2. Test connections
3. Clone the repository
4. Compile and upload the code to the Arduino
5. Test everything
6. Enjoy

Custumizations

Roadmap

2.0.0

might never happen

• add SD card reader for data logging
• add GPS for position and speed logging
• add camera module
• add sensors for autonomous drive

1.0.0

• code cleanup

Change Log

0.4.1

• sometimes the RC gives wrong values and the car turned Off
• this update introduces a workaround that puts a counter on wheather the car should turn Off
• if there are five consecutive signals to turn the car off we turn it off
• we do not use delay to read the signal from receiver
• we still have hard delay of 0.5 second when changing forward and reverse

0.4.0

• rewrite parts of code for turning the car
• removal of more deprecated code
• better debugging messages

0.3.4

• removal of deprecated code

0.3.3

• reverse the turning of a car when in reverse

0.3.2

• the compiler does not compile Serial.print() and Serial.println() statements when we do not need them
• the compiler compile whole code when we are debugging the code

0.3.1

• parse signal from three position switch to control maximum throttle as 33%, 66% and 100% of the full throttle

0.3.0

• calculate motor power from receiver data

0.2.2

• combine throttle and turn indexes into unified motor power for each motor

0.2.1

• optimise data parsing
• detect critical points and act accordingly to prevent motor damage

0.2.0

• get data from the receiver
• parse data into human readable from

0.1.1

• change planned iBus protocol with PPM - more suitable for our receiver, since we can connect our receiver on any port of the Arduino (exept TX and RX ports) and not block sketch upload.

0.1.0

• initial setup