Hi all,
Was just thinking to myself, a really really simple way of controlling an RC car / vehicle would be via a computer controlling the transmitter, the PC could input into a PIC microcontroller, which would then make pins go 'HIGH', which could switch a relay on or something, which could operate a switch on a transmitter?
that sounds possible to me?
I also thought that perhaps you could use a joystick on yoru computer, and develop software to read the joystick positions and relay this to the PIC??
Further extensions on this idea would be actually plotting the room/area your car/RC model was in, into a 3d environment on the computer, you could somehow have a window with relayed video footage, and the 3d model would move based upon your instructions from the joystick.
Before i start on this one, has anyone done anything like this before? and do you think i would be wasting my time? I think im experiencing ideas overload!
regards,
Paul