This is the XBee remote control done by a guy who basically just know put everything together with not much electronic. Yep, please go easy on me for this one. All I do really just put everything together so my device looks huge and mess with all these big fat wires running around.
Here is the list I used:
Arduino Mega, Mega shield, XBee 1, 2 joysticks, 2 slider? 3" LCD, 900Mhz Wireless reciever, buttons and some switchs and one 11.1V lipo battery.
The protocol is still under development. I haven't really figure out how to do multitask in Arduino. What I did is to send a Array which looks like this:
In this case I think it is awesome! Makes me think of an old third part NES controller that I had, it was about the same size but without the displays.
I like the way you can choose between different devices but it still keeps showing the images of the big one.
Make sure you tell that guy Make sure you tell that guy who doesn’t know much that he did a good job
You said all you did was put it together. Does. That mean it was a kit / design that you worked from? If so, other people might like to know which kit you used and how to find it. If you engineered all that yourself, you did it really well.
Thanks for your encouragement. Na, not a kit. What I mean is I don’t know how to make my own circuit board and I don’t want to use breadboard on such project, so I bought shield and those plug&play buttons and joysticks. I actually wanna trim down those video wires and remove the hard case from wireless video receiver. But, before I am sure what to do, I don’t want to screw up what had been done.
It’s very easy to get it on eBay, cheap too. All you need to do just remove the hard case and use the same screw to put it on your device. Yep, it has the traditional video output, after you remove the case you can modify it to whatever you familiar with.
More of a question on the plexigass(or whatever material it is). How are you making the cuts in the material? Do you have access to a laser cutter like PM?
Where were you able to find the material, at a hw store? I haven’t found any places locally and to get something cut to my design seems a bit costly when looking online…so…just wondering how you are doing it.
That’s how they called the material. My friend who is running a machine shop locally he cut it with machine for me. I was trying the local CNC shop named “panther plastic”, they do all kinds of display and custom plastic, however they were way too busy and put me in schedule 3 weeks after so I just went to my friend and have it done in few hours.
I am not a professional. LCD is actually separate from system. I just put a wireless receiver in the controller to receive the signal from transmitter on robot. Simple
