Remote Control Jeep Community Service Project – Part 2

This is a continuation from Part 1. If you haven’t read it yet you can here. Now, I had to figure out how to control a motor from the Arduino. If you look at an Arduino, it has a bunch of pins (or holes) sticking out of it. These are the GPIO (General Purpose Input/Output) pins.…

Remote Control Jeep Community Service Project – Part 1

I recently worked on a community service project with my robotics team to convert a small electric car (the kind that kids can use to drive around their yard) to become remote control so that a disabled child’s parents could drive him/her around their yard. My job was to program the car to make it…