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Carduinodroid is a first-person-view-vehicle developed as part of a project at Ilmenau University of Technology. The car can be controlled like a computer game from the cockpit view by using our software. This is possible due to the combination of a standard RC car, an Arduino-microcontroller-board and an Android-smartphone.
- The central part of this project is the use of a customary RC car with an android mobile phone as a substitute for an expensive drone
- The control of the hardware is simplified via an Arduino module. For the control of the drive motors, a circuit board is used, but this project already provides the fundamental concepts and plans.
- The Control center of the drone is made of household objects and the Android versio should be higher then 4.1. A prefabricated Android application allows via 3 different modes (Remote, Transceiver and Direct) a full access to the hardware of the mobile phone and the RC cars.
- The remote control can be done via the provided Android (Remote) or another desktop application.
The team of the Ilmenau University of Technology provides a basic set of software to all interested users. With an android phone (Version >4.1), your own RC car and our guide to create a motor controller, you will be ready in a short time to drive around.
Decide if you want to control the RC car via 2 android phones only or if you want to use your computer as a remote station.
Create with our guide a board for motor controlling and connect this with an Arduino Uno. Finally our software only needs to be uploaded on the Arduino.
Connect an Android phone via USB or Bluetooth to the Arduino and decide either to use another android phone or our desktop application to control the drone. (Direct Connection via Bluetooth is possible as well)
Have Fun like this one out of france:
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CarDuinoDroid was initially created by a software project of the Systems and Software Engineering Group at the Ilmenau University of Technology in 2012. For many years, more student projects have enhanced the ability of these drone. After 2015 the complete software of the drone was renewed to ease interested users entering an own development.
Any deeper understanding questions we will try to answer with the following links. If you both like our project and have a lot of fun with it, so you can start your own work on it!