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Espruino is a JavaScript interpreter for low-power Microcontrollers. This site is both a support community for Espruino and a place to share what you are working on.
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Hi everyone,
While ago I built an RC car. The requirements were:
That resulted in some design decisions like using 4 small dc motors (no gear) so they can be directly attached to the wheel. Also used pogo-pins soldered to the pcb as suspension and hinges for steering.
Back then I was more bare metal embedded guy so I used some LPC micro with lots of modules for communication and so on.
It worked pretty well. You can see the video here:
rc pcb car
I decided to redesign it with expruino as a control device and add some other improvements. Since the mdb42q module has the regulator already I could drop the dc/dc converter and the wireless communication module. I added third battery in series since I dont have a boost from the DC/DC anymore.
I did some breadboard testing for motors and stepper with espruino and it seems all good. The repo is public and you can find it here: bolidJs repo Right now its just schematic, pcb and some messy test scripts.
I used to have pcb joystick but this time I will just control it from phone or any hid device I think.
I will sent out the board for fabrication this week so any feedback is welcome before it goes :)
I will make some updates once I have the board assembled. This post is for some sense of accomplishment after a week of pcb design and testing espruino with peripherials :)
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