Intro

Few months ago, I purchased an Arduino Uno module. For those who do not know, it is a prototyping platform based on a microcontroller, programmable via an open source language

For more information: http://www.arduino.cc/fr/

As I have some knowledge of electronics and programming (low skills), I started slowly with very small projects and simple codes, for isntance, make a LED flashing, then several LEDs, etc…

There are many tutorials on the internet explaining the different sides and possibilities of the Arduino.

After practicing a bit, I decided to start a new project, not very original but fun: Adding an Arduino to a radio controlled car, to be able in the first time, to control the car throught the serial port, then in the future, evolute to be able to control the car throught the WIFI or 3G network.

You will find, in this blog, the different steps of this project: material, source codes, problems, etc. ...

Your feedback, comments, and advises are of course welcome!

Choosing a car:

I chose a simple electric car model. As I have not a huge budget, and as I wanted a real model brand, I choseo a 1/10th car brand Kyosho: The Kyosho Sandmaster.

I bought this one without the radio remote and the receiver. The receiver will be replaced, in my case, by the Arduino

Expect to pay about 90 euros for the car.

The advantage of taking a true model-making brand, and not a "noname", is that you can easily find any piece, in case of damage.

Here are 2 pictures of the car:

Using Xbox360 controller to drive a RC car