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Re: Modular RC kits?
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lugnet.robotics
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Sun, 30 Jan 2005 16:44:12 GMT
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Russell Nelson <NELSON@CRYNWR.COMihatespam>
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Joe Strout writes:
> LEGO already makes several RC cars, but at least from the ones I
> have seen, they are not modular; the radio speaks directly to a
> chassis, and you basically can just decorate that chassis. You
> can't intercept the received signals and use them to control your
> own motors that do your own thing.
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> There must be someone here who would know how to receive a signal
> from a radio controller and use it to control the voltage to a
> motor?
I expect that if you open up the Lego RC car, you'll find standard RC
electronics inside it. Why reinvent the wheel (pun unintended)?
Basically, there ought to be a servo controlling the steering, and a
drive motor controller. Both of these should be accepting a PWM
signal which varies in width between 10ms and 20ms.
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| (...) I knew that, and thank you, but it's not what I'm asking for. I don't have an RCX, nor would I want to use one for this. I need *radio* control, not remote (infrared) control, and I don't want to involve a computer. I apologize that I wasn't (...) (20 years ago, 30-Jan-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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