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First Person View RC Car with PS1 Steering Wheel -- Episode 391

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First Person View RC Car with PS1 Steering Wheel

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Clem scored a broken Steering Wheel for the PlayStation 1 (yes the first one) at a flea market.Thankfully it is broken so he decided to turn it into an RC transmitter for his old Remote controlled Car! Learn how to use the Arduino MKR Wifi 1010 to make your own Transmitter and Receiver from scratch! It even supports FPV head tracking! What features would you like to add into the system? Tell us here in the discussion thread.

 

 

Extended cuts of the racing footage:

 

Bill of Materials

 

Product NameManufacturerQuantityBuy Kit
Arduino MKR wifi 1010ARDUINO2Buy Now
Linear Voltage RegulatorOn Semiconductor1Buy Now

 

 

 

Additional Parts:

 

Product Name/Description
RC Car  ( Cars used in the Episode: Hirobo Rock‘n Vega witch Toyota Levin body  / AMR Mini Scud with Mini Cooper Body)
The glue used to repair the plastic parts is Aprintapro Printaglue (designed to glue 3d printed parts)
Attachments:
FPVCarUDPHost.zip
FPVCarUDPReceiver.zip
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  • in reply to Sean_Miller

    thanks, I kinda get into coding more now.

    Xbee would be interesting but it was not what I wanted to use for this build for some reasons:

     

    1.price an xbee module costs more thanthe wifi version

    2.I wanted to make multipoint RC a thing, which I accomplished, no idea on how to do that with xbee

    3.legality, in some areas mine included RF communication is very strictly regulated, wifi is an option that works anywhere in the world

    4. ease of use , the mkr wifi 1010 has an encrypted ublox module which is very easy to use.

    5. speed I need to get these videos finished very fast so, I had no time to learn a new system right in time

  • in reply to Sean_Miller

    XBee don't work well, I've tried it. For RC you need a fast and low latency wireless system. I'm currently using NRF24 in my own design, and it's working out pretty well.