| Author | Message | ||
     Anonymous |
In school we have started to work with parrelel ports on the computer. What our project is, is to connect four LED's to the conector which will simulate the head lights, and turning signals of car on a small model car we created from paper, and cardboard. We may also conect two motors one for drive, and one for steering later. My question is how would I be able to make this remote controled, I was thinking using the Computer controled transmitter, but I had doubts of it working. Thanks in advance for any help | ||
| Simon Quellen Field (Sfield) |
You can use the parallel port pins to control the gates of a 4066 CMOS bilateral switch. That switch can then turn on and off up to four devices, such as the controls on a radio control car. For someone just learning how to use a parallel port to control LEDs, I think your best best is to use the above method to push the buttons on a commercial remote control unit. Later you can play with Basic Stamps and RF modules. But buying a cheap remore control car and taking it apart will be the fastest and cheapest way to add remote control to your project. | ||
| Anonymous |
Ok thanks, I'll see what I can come up with. Maybe I'll just dazzel everyone with a good C++ program to control it. :P | ||
| Weebl Unregistered guest |
I know that lego makes a "Mars Rover" that is RC and plugs into a parallel port, its actually a pretty nifty device |
