Arduino Car Projects

Use your Arduino Uno and programs to control a car fitted with motors and sensors.

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6.5 hours
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Mar 2023
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$54.99
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What you will learn

How to use an Arduino Uno to controll two DC motors.

How to control an Arduino car with a wired joystick.

How to control an Arduino car without wires: use your smartphone with Wifi.

How to control an Arduino car without wires: use your smartphone with Bluetooth BLE..

How to control an Arduino car without wires: use an infrared receiver and remote.

How to use a distance sensor to prevent accidents.

How to use a line sensor to implement autonomous steering.

How to use a buzzer to create aubible signals.

How to use separate power supplies for the Arduino and the motors.

Two ways to control the speed of a DC motors.

Description

Arduino Car Projects is ideal for new Arduino Makers and graduates of Arduino Step by Step Getting Started.

Use your Arduino Uno and programs to control a car with motors and sensors.

Use a joystick, an infrared controller, and a smartphone to drive your Arduino car.

This course is an opportunity to apply your new Arduino knowledge in a series of small projects with a common theme: the Arduino Car.

Learn how to combine various hardware components to create an Arduino car with many fun features. Control your car with a joystick or with your phone. Learn how to wire motors and decode signals from an infrared controller (and much more).

This course teaches essential Arduino and programming skills through a series of fun mini-projects of increasing complexity.

Each mini-project allows you to explore interesting hardware and programming topics.

For example, you will explore vehicle safety using an ultrasonic distance sensor in one project.

In another project, you will learn how to control the Arduino car with your smartphone.

You will learn how to program motors, take input from sensors to implement automation features, and explore various options to control your car.

In this course, you will learn software skills, such as:

  • How to program car functions with the infrared remote control.

  • How to use Bluetooth Low Energy, your smartphone, and the ArduinoBlue library to control the Arduino car.

  • How to use the ESP01S wifi module, the Blink cloud platform, and your smartphone to control the Arduino car and its peripherals.

  • How to compensate for tiny differences between the motors that affect the driving qualities of the car.

  • How to use the distance sensor to prevent a crash.

  • Two different ways to control the speed of the DC motors.

In this course, you will learn to use an Arduino Uno along with various peripherals, such as:

  • One or two DC motors with the help of a motor controller module.

  • An analog joystick.

  • An infrared sensor that can receive encoded commands from an infrared remote control.

  • An ultrasonic distance sensor.

  • A buzzer.

  • And two radio frequency communications modules:

  • A Bluetooth BLE module for near-field connectivity.

  • An ESP01S Wifi module for Internet connectivity.

You will also learn how to power your Arduino motor project with one or two batteries to separate the Arduino and motor sub-circuits.


What hardware will you need?

This course requires an Arduino Uno or compatible board, a car chassis, motors, sensors, wires and other components.

This hardware is not included in this course; you must source it separately.

You can purchase these items as part of a kit sold by Sunfounder or individually from your preferred retailer.

You can find a complete listing of the hardware you will need for this course in the course hardware lecture (free to watch before you purchase this course).

Content

Introduction

01-10 What is this course about?
01-20 Hardware and kit overview
01-40 How to make the most out of this course

Getting to know the hardware

02-10 Car chassis
02-20 Microcontroller
02-30 The joystick
02-40 Motors and motor drivers
02-50 The infrared sensor
02-60 The HC-SR04 ultrasonic sensor
02-70 The Bluetooth BLE AC-BT-V4 module
02-80 ESP-01S WiFi module – Configuration wiring
02-81 ESP-01S WiFi module – Configuration AT commands
02-82 ESP-01S WiFi module – Create Blynk account and project
02-83 ESP-01S WiFi module – Simple LED control with Blynk

Assembly – Core Hardware

03-10 Assemble the car kit – preparation
03-11 Assemble the car kit
03-20 Wire the motors
03-30 Battery and power

Project 1: Simple wired control

04-10 Project introduction – objectives
04-20 Quick joystick demonstration
04-30 Wiring and cabling
04-40 Arduino motor control sketch
04-50 Testing

Project 2: Remote control with infrared

05-10 Project introduction – objectives
05-20 Wiring
05-30 IR remote control and sensor testing
05-40 Arduino motor IR control sketch
05-50 Testing

Project 3: Remote control with Bluetooth BLE mobile app

06-10 Project introduction and objectives
06-20 Bluetooth BLE wiring
06-30 ArduinoBlue app control UI
06-40 Arduino motor control sketch
06-50 Testing

Project 4: Remote control with WiFi and mobile phone via Blynk

07-10 Project introduction and objectives
07-20 ESP01S module wiring
07-30 Verify WiFi connectivity to Blynk
07-40 Setup RC Car Blynk project
07-50 Setup Blynk mobile dashboard
07-60 Arduino motor control sketch
07-70 Testing

Improvements

8-10 Speed control with the joystick
8-20 Ultrasonic anti-crash system
8-30 Make the car beep with the buzzer
8-40 Fix not-straight drive
8-50 Motor start-stop button
8-60 Independent power source for the motors
8-70 Use the EN pins for speed control

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