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coming from the battery compartment. I made this the first wire on the
ribbon and noted that it was the brown wire.

It is not required to make separate connections to all of the visible

pads since you will notice that all of the “middle ones” are connected
together and these are connected to the 0v track going to the battery.
In the end I had six wires: five signal connections and one to the 0v.
In this particular car the signal connections were forward, reverse, left,
right and turbo. The turbo was just a higher speed forward. On some
cars I have modified additional connections allowed turning the lights
on and of and even a horn.

With the wires connected I fed the ribbon through a gap in the battery
compartment part of the case and re-assembled the pcb taking care
not to impede the operation of the levers. I made sure the car still
worked ok before continuing to the next phase of connecting the
wires to the pc adaptor.

The USB adaptor that I used was the PC-BEE from PC-User (now
replaced by MiniBee). It is inexpensive and simple to use. One end
connects to a free USB port and the other is a set of screw terminals
for connecting the wires. It is important to connect the 0v wire, (in this
case the brown one) to the common connection on the pc-bee
(terminal 8). The others were simply connected in sequence to the
first 5 terminals, leaving the software to sort out which output to
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first 5 terminals, leaving the software to sort out which output to
activate for each function.

Job done. All that’s needed now is to create a control sequence and
start some “road trials”…..

Software

Luckily this part is quite easy since the PC-Bee device comes with a
software package (Bee-Step) that allows control sequences to be
created, stored and run. It is basically setting on/off patterns for
particular durations executed according to your step sequence.

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Poste d in Ele ctrical, Ele ctronics & C om m unication Proje cts , Me chanical Proje cts on Fe bruary 8, 2010
Tags: C om pute r C ontrolle d Ve hicle , PC C ontrolle d C ar

One Response to PC Controlled Car

haylelul says:
May 14, 2010 at 5:22 pm

i want to see pc controlled watering system

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