RACING ROBOT CAR DAY 2

 DAY 2



Today, we had planned our objectives as follows:

- Program the Arduino chip with test code.

- Test the new chassis and motor driver with our new found knowledge about the batteries and the voltage, using the pre-programmed code on the chip.

-Test how fast the car can move, and overall testing the limits of the car to see what best suits our project.


GOAL 1:

- Program the Arduino chip with test code.

We firstly uploaded some test code to the Arduino chip to ensure that the car moves as programmed. Below is an example of the test code that we had used.



This was very simple and we encountered no issues!


GOAL 2:

- Test the new chassis and motor driver with our new found knowledge about the batteries and the voltage, using the pre-programmed code on the chip.

We had to firstly assemble this as follows:


This was also very simple to do! Our car was working as expected! Below is a video showing the car spinning!



GOAL 3:

-Test how fast the car can move, and overall testing the limits of the car to see what best suits our project.

We initially used 2 channels for each wheel of the chassis, which resulted in a very fast car. This was too fast for our liking, and so we changed this to one channel, as this means that the power was shared and therefore much slower.

This was possible because the voltage supplied by the one channel was sufficient to power both wheels, and so this works and will not provide too much power or voltage to both wheels.

This is all we did for today, and are so far happy with our progress!


Next week we aim to:

- work on the program and upload this information to the chip. 

- Create an app to control the car using a mobile phone

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