RC car with PS2 controller

A new kit from AliExpress has prompted me to build a remote-controlled vehicle. The kit consists of an Arduino, an expansion board, and a PS2 controller with receiver. Components The chassis of the vehicle is formed by a kit from AliExpress LINK. This kit contains an acrylic platform with two motors, wheels, and some accessories. For control, I am using...

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Arduino PS2 Controller Board Fundamentals

Sales Name: 2018 Arduino Shield Expansion Board 6-12V with 4 Channels Motors Servos Ports PS2 Joystick Remote Control I bought the expansion board in a set including PS2 controller/receiver module, Arduino Uno and USB cable, from fast Ali for under €26. !!!To avoid a few mistakes beforehand, it makes sense to connect an external power source to the Arduino...

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Raspberry Pi + Servo

Controlling a servo with the Raspberry Pi 3. This is about the basic technique; the application could be, for example, a mobile robot. The servo is to be controlled via software PWM in order to keep the hardware PWMs free for other functions. Additionally, the servo should not be controlled via integer values as is usual...

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Pi4J + BlueJ

Since I prefer to program in Java, I use the Pi4J library to control the GPIOs on the Raspberry Pi 2 and 3. I will not go into detail about the installation of the library, as this has already been exhaustively described on the following web pages. http://pi4j.com/install.html http://pi4j.com/utility/pi4j.html http://www.forum-raspberrypi.de/Thread-tutorial-ansteuerung-der-gpio-ports-mit-pi4j It is also important to know that Pi4J builds on the wiringPI library…

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