Pictures/Video
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- Pressure washed and stripped to the frame. Front caster installed.
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- Top view of previous picture. Notice the board in the “hood” that we bolted the caster to.
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- Back compartment. New motors and gears installed and axel cut.
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- Success! The motor controller finally worked. Here you can see 12.7v on the multimeter coming from the motor controller.
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- Our motor controller connected to the Arduino.
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- The final circuit. Battery is going through the resistors (under the giant heat sink) and through the controller being controlled by the Arduino and then out to our motor.
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- “Never modify the electrical system” – sticker on bottom of the car. Oops.
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- Painted by my friend Kara, our “aesthetic supervisor”, to make it more menacing. We decided to not paint the tires, it gives kind of a cool look. The pipe on the side is where the model rocket will launch from.
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- Alternate angle.
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- Alternate angle.
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- Back compartment with some electronics installed. Also installed the plywood cover to protect it.
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- The plywood cover here will have the larger electronics on it like the laptop and router.
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- Originally a fake gas cap. I made it into the charging port. It accepts a 12v cigarette lighter plug.
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- The female receiver for the charger. This is from underneath the car.
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- The 2 resistors and what is probably an overly large heat sink I had laying around. We noticed they got a little warm and decided to go overboard :)
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- Linksys WRT 54g running on 4 AA batteries. This will sit in the car and will be used for us to connect to the car when there are no other access points availible.
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- Another shot of the Arduino and motor controller.
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- The condition we got the car in. Gross.
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- The motors as they originally were. Also gross.
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- The main circuit all neat and tidy.
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- A shot of the inside of the main housing.
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- The switches for main power, the router, and rocket launcher safety.
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- A crappy drawing of the basic schematic
Video (opens in page like pictures above):
Intro
Driving Demo
Driving from Laptop
Post Test
Day 2 Test
Another day 2 Test
Final day 2 Test
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