fiveworlds Posted December 17, 2016 Share Posted December 17, 2016 A fun recent completed project of mine I thought would be fun for people here. Convert a manual car to automatic using arduino or an alternative. A typical car runs on a 12volt battery. There will be either 4 buttons gear up, gear down, reverse and clutch alternatively you may leave out the clutch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DevilSolution Posted December 17, 2016 Share Posted December 17, 2016 I created a power management system using an arduino for 12V battery bank, you physically swapping the gear box? if your gona send a signal from the arduino your gona need something mechanical to switch the gears, pro-grammatically its simple, 4 if statements, 4, ports, 4 transistors / relays and whatever limits are on the gears. This seems like more mechanical than programming? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fiveworlds Posted December 17, 2016 Author Share Posted December 17, 2016 (edited) you physically swapping the gear box? The idea was this guy was a rally car driver and wanted to have buttons on the steering wheel to change gears. This seems like more mechanical than programming? Yeah I was only doing the programming side of it. He was using 3 solenoids for the gears so I had to write the program to move them with the arduino. It isn't that difficult but it is a fun project. It also included programming a 7 segment display for the dash to display what gear the car was in. Edited December 17, 2016 by fiveworlds Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DevilSolution Posted December 17, 2016 Share Posted December 17, 2016 i just put touch screen on the arduino and built my own gui from that. Did you get to drive it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fiveworlds Posted December 17, 2016 Author Share Posted December 17, 2016 Did you get to drive it? No it was an online job. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sensei Posted December 18, 2016 Share Posted December 18, 2016 (edited) A fun recent completed project of mine I thought would be fun for people here. But show some source code. Or screen-shots of source code.. ps. Why don't you build your own 3D printer, 2D Plotter.. ? It's very similar project. Just a 2-3 little engines, spinning in one direction (+X, +Y, +Z), and the other direction (-X, -Y, -Z). 6 bits of data needed to send to them. 1 to turn on/off, 1 for direction. Edited December 18, 2016 by Sensei Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fiveworlds Posted December 18, 2016 Author Share Posted December 18, 2016 (edited) I'll show the circuit. Note that fritzing doesn't have a 12V power supply so I used the 9V one as a placeholder. The three NPN transistors should be nmos. Why don't you build your own 3D printer, 2D Plotter.. ? I'd love to make one but I don't have the parts at home I'd have to buy them. Edited December 18, 2016 by fiveworlds Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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