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September 22
After an eye-opening conversation with Ms. McDonald we have decided to abandon our RC Kinex car. She pointed out that our lack of incentive was obvious, and suggested another project which we may be more excited about. I thought that designing and eventually 3D printing would take more then a year with me occasionally working other class work and Jarod’s disappearances.Ms. McDonald Jenga playing robot which she already has the parts for and can make sure that we’re making progress on. Hopefully we will focus more on our robotics and less on other class work in the future so we will be able to finish this project.
Tuesday 9/8/2015
This link is very helpful for the arduino:
http://www.instructables.com/id/Bluetooth-Controlled-Arduino-RC-Car/step6/
Hopefully-this-helped/. It assumes that we will use a store bought rc car, but I think we should try to make our own. This may be a more helpful link:
http://www.instructables.com/id/homemade-rc-car/
Because it goes through the whole process with a homemade RC car, but it doesn’t use a Arduino. It also goes through the process of making the remote control from scratch. I think wood may be the most realistic choice of material, but i think PVC could also be an easy to use material and metal would be very strong and be able to hold the most weight.
Robotics
I don’t really want to do the cordless drill go-cart because it’s very similar to another project which I have done before and it wasn’t very successful and was pretty frustrating. I would rather do something simpler is design, but more complicated in other aspects. I would rather go back to thinking of RC cars which would use Arduino and possibly the 3D printer to make. We may have wasted so much time try to choose a project that some of this is no longer possible, but I hope that we’ll be able to figure it out by Tuesday so we can begin and stop wasting time.
Here are a few links of things which are similar to what I was thinking although some of them have materials or things which we possibly couldn’t use:
https://barrettsprojects.wordpress.com/2013/01/13/driving-an-rc-car-with-a-ps3-controller/
http://www.instructables.com/id/Arduino-Controlled-RC-car/step3/Final-Testing/
https://www.sparkfun.com/tutorials/348
An RC car isn’t the only thing which I want to do, but we’ve been having trouble coming up with anything else and are running out of time so this might be one of our only options. It is the beginning of the year so an RC car may be a good project to start with and will give us ideas for different projects we could do later.