Robot algorithm

Community General Discussions
1

Hi to all, I think this is going here, sorry if it’s not.

I’m going to do a project in the university about exploring algorithms, etc., so I want to make a robot, I was thinking in the following:
1/10 scale 4x4 R/C car as the base and chassis
PDA Dell Axim X3 (I have it at home) as the “CPU”, connected by serial port to controller that would connect the motors, etc.
But right now I’m a bit lost. How could I connect by the same serial port several sensors like IR proximity, compass, etc.?

I don’t have no idea about the robotics, I study maths so I’d like to make the most part of my work about algorithms and programming, not about making the robot (that’s why I want a PDA as the CPU: it has bluetooth, wifi, and tft screen for debugging), am I on the right way?
Any suggestions?

2

Thank you for your reply, i will try to get to know more about the pins and see what I can do. thanks!

3

Hi lorenzoaguilar28,

Welcome to the RobotShop Forum. Have you found a way to breakout the pins on the PDA? If you know what the pins are, you can communicate with a secondary “slave” device such as a microcontroller, which in turn communicates with all the other devices such as the motor controllers and sensors. You would of course need to program the microcontroller as well.

Hope this helps,