Remote controlled rover

Lynxmotion Rovers, Sumo, and Tracked
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Hi,
i want to make a remote controlled rover with Hitec 6Ch RC Set.
Could you say me what board i must buy to do that?

Thanks

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We need to know a bit more about what you want to do with the rover before we can really help much. What kind of rover will it be? Will it have an arm for manipulating things?

8-Dale

3

yes, i’ve buyed a lynxmotion arm 6 and i want to put a tilt/pan camera on the rover too. The rover could be a lynxmotion 4wd rover 3

4

You will definitely need an SSC-32 servo controller to control the arm. This controller is sent commands over a serial port, and has great features like group moves, timed moves, etc. and controls up to 32 servos. I am guessing you will want to remotely control the tilt/pan of the camera also, and the SSC-32 can easily handle this as well.

If you want your rover to roam around autonomously at some point, you will also need a microcontroller. Since you said you want to radio control it, you won’t need that now.

I just got an SSC-32 (2 of them actually), and have started to fiddle with it. I am very impressed with its capabilities, especially the timed and/or group moves.

8-Dale

5

Thanks for the reply. I know that there are many microcontrollers and i know well C and assembler languages. Which microcontrollers could i use to programming in c?

Thanks a lot

6

Man, if I keep up this slug fanboy stuff linuxguy is gonna start rolling his eyes :wink:

I don’t know about microcontrollers, but you could accomplish the same thing dropping an embedded linux computer onboard to run your C code. Linuxguy has looked into gumstix embedded computers and might be able to tell you more, but I’m using a linksys NSLU2 (i.e. SLUG) running gentoo linux, so I have a native GCC environment on board for compiling my code.

Embedded computer might be more expensive and complicated, but it would give you more options. Microcontrollers are probably easier to use and thriftier on the power usage. I would guess most people around these forums use microcontrollers so I’m sure you can find some good info from others on their pros and cons.

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thanks for all the infos :slight_smile: