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The purpose of the project is to design a vehicle that would have the
ability to be controlled using a computer keyboard via radio
technology. It will be able to perform forward and reverse motion
while moving straight or turning left or right – thus having all
degrees of freedom of a regular car. The vehicle will be limited to a
25 cm plastic car made out of Lego dacta™ pieces and gears. First the
hardware had to be created by combining and soldering a factory made
receiver and transmitter, a 9V battery and an ATMega16 microprocessor.
Then, we programmed the processor and created a Java interface to
access the microprocessor via the serial port. In the future this
project can serve to assist the automobile industries in creating
automatically controlled vehicles to reduce accidents caused by human
error.
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