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Netduino car controlled through Windows phone

Posted on January 28, 2014 by R-B One comment

Matt Cavanagh, a Windows phone app developer from South Africa and the author of the Netduino Home Automation Projects book, built this Bluetooth controlled car using the Netduino board. He uses a Windows Phone to control the car over Bluetooth. The beauty of this project is that he 3-D printed the frame and wheels for the car. His next goal is to mount a second Windows Phone on the car and use Skype to stream the live video from the car.

PocketBot: A matchbox size line following vehicle

Posted on September 6, 2011 by R-B Leave a comment

Ond?ej Stan?k, a student of Computer science at Charles University in Prague, the Czech Republic, won first prize in the freestyle category on the RobotChallenge competition in Vienna with this matchbox size line following robot (which he has named PocketBox). The robot is powered with two lithium-ion button batteries and is controlled by the Atmel ATmega8 microcontroller.

Voice controlled robotic vehicle

Posted on March 15, 2011 by R-B One comment

In this video, Carlos Asamat describes an Arduino driven speech controlled robotic vehicle. The required components and modules to construct this robot can be purchased from RobotShop. The voice commands are processed through a speech recognition hardware module and are transferred to the vehicle through Xbee RF communication modules. The speech recognition module is controlled through an Arduino Uno. The robotic vehicle to be controlled is the DFRobotShop Rover,which is a very versatile programmable robot platform. Besides the mechanical structure of the robot, the DFRobotShop Rover PCB also incorporates a standard Arduino Duemilanove (surface mount ATMega328), L293B motor driver, voltage regulator and an additional prototyping

Cellphone controlled robot vehicle

Posted on December 2, 2010 by R-B 5 comments

When we talk about wireless robot vehicles, we usually think about the RF circuits. But this project is different. It uses a mobile phone to control the motion of a robotic vehicle, and therefore, the range of operation is as large as the coverage area of the service provider.

Wifi robot vehicle controlled by PIC16F628A

Posted on December 1, 2010 by R-B Leave a comment

This robot vehicle can be driven over the internet or with a laptop wirelessly up to 500 m. The vehicle has an embedded network camera that transmits a live video to the user so that it can be driven without line of sight. It also has a built-in horn to honk at people on the way. The motion of the vehicle is controlled with the onboard PIC16F628A microcontroller that receives the commands from the remote user through a Linksys WRT54GL router. The communication between the microcontroller and the router is a standard serial interface.