https://github.com/kasteph/michelino

An Arduino car.
https://github.com/kasteph/michelino

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An Arduino car.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/kasteph/michelino
• Owner: kasteph
• Created: 2014-11-06T21:20:29.000Z (almost 10 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2014-11-11T19:59:11.000Z (almost 10 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-05T08:07:27.845Z (about 1 month ago)
• Language: Arduino
• Size: 172 KB
• Stars: 0
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 1
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md

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michelino

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An Arduino-powered car. It does basic collision detection and can be controlled via [Zulip](https://github.com/surenm/remote-controller)

and the [web](https://github.com/surenm/remote-controller).

Hardware

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Jesse and I did a quick Google search to see if anyone had written a blog post on making an Arduino car and found that

Miguel Grinberg had [written a series](http://blog.miguelgrinberg.com/category/Arduino). I read

through his tutorial and found that while the rest of it was a bit too much for what we were trying to accomplish, the

[parts and components post](blog.miguelgrinberg.com/post/building-an-arduino-robot-part-i-hardware-components) were extremely invaluable. We also got the idea of naming the car 'Michelino' from Miguel :)

We bought all of the parts recommended by Miguel except for the Bluetooth Slave. We decided early on that we wanted the car to

be controlled via Zulip and possibly a web interface so we bought the [Adafruit CC3000 WiFi shield](http://www.adafruit.com/product/1491) instead.

The Sketch

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To make the motors run, we followed [this tutorial](http://www.instructables.com/id/Arduino-Motor-Shield-Tutorial/) from Instructables. It sets up two channels for each motor and brake--we decided not to implement brake like the author did in this tutorial since we were using the Adafruit CC3000 WiFi shield and it had overlapping pins with the Arduino Motor Shield. Instead, our brake works by setting speed to 0.

To connect to the Internet, we used the [Adafruit_CC3000 library](https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_CC3000_Library). We set up the HTTP Server using the [HTTPServer.ino example](https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_CC3000_Library/blob/master/examples/HTTPServer/HTTPServer.ino) as a foundation and integrated it into our car code. With the server we have the following endpoints:

* `/start`

* `/stop`

* `/forward`

* `/backward`

* `/left`

* `/right`

Using the above endpoints, Suren and I were able to make wrappers to control the car via the Internet.