Arduino Car Projects

Use your Arduino Uno and programs to control a car fitted with motors and sensors.

What you'll learn

How to use an Arduino Uno to controll two DC motors.

How to control an Arduino car with a wired joystick.

How to control an Arduino car without wires: use your smartphone with Wifi.

How to control an Arduino car without wires: use your smartphone with Bluetooth BLE..

How to control an Arduino car without wires: use an infrared receiver and remote.

How to use a distance sensor to prevent accidents.

How to use a line sensor to implement autonomous steering.

How to use a buzzer to create aubible signals.

How to use separate power supplies for the Arduino and the motors.

Two ways to control the speed of a DC motors.

Requirements

Basic Arduino programming and wiring.

Description

Arduino Car Projects is ideal for new Arduino Makers and graduates of Arduino Step by Step Getting Started.Use your Arduino Uno and programs to control a car with motors and sensors.Use a joystick, an infrared controller, and a smartphone to drive your Arduino car.This course is an opportunity to apply your new Arduino knowledge in a series of small projects with a common theme: the Arduino Car.Learn how to combine various hardware components to create an Arduino car with many fun features. Control your car with a joystick or with your phone. Learn how to wire motors and decode signals from an infrared controller (and much more).This course teaches essential Arduino and programming skills through a series of fun mini-projects of increasing complexity.Each mini-project allows you to explore interesting hardware and programming topics.For example, you will explore vehicle safety using an ultrasonic distance sensor in one project.In another project, you will learn how to control the Arduino car with your smartphone.You will learn how to program motors, take input from sensors to implement automation features, and explore various options to control your car.In this course, you will learn software skills, such as:How to program car functions with the infrared remote control.How to use Bluetooth Low Energy, your smartphone, and the ArduinoBlue library to control the Arduino car.How to use the ESP01S wifi module, the Blink cloud platform, and your smartphone to control the Arduino car and its peripherals.How to compensate for tiny differences between the motors that affect the driving qualities of the car.How to use the distance sensor to prevent a crash.Two different ways to control the speed of the DC motors.In this course, you will learn to use an Arduino Uno along with various peripherals, such as:One or two DC motors with the help of a motor controller module.An analog joystick.An infrared sensor that can receive encoded commands from an infrared remote control.An ultrasonic distance sensor.A buzzer.And two radio frequency communications modules:A Bluetooth BLE module for near-field connectivity.An ESP01S Wifi module for Internet connectivity.You will also learn how to power your Arduino motor project with one or two batteries to separate the Arduino and motor sub-circuits.What hardware will you need?This course requires an Arduino Uno or compatible board, a car chassis, motors, sensors, wires and other components.This hardware is not included in this course; you must source it separately.You can purchase these items as part of a kit sold by Sunfounder or individually from your preferred retailer.You can find a complete listing of the hardware you will need for this course in the course hardware lecture (free to watch before you purchase this course).

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 01-10 What is this course about?

Lecture 2 01-20 Hardware and kit overview

Lecture 3 01-40 How to make the most out of this course

Section 2: Getting to know the hardware

Lecture 4 02-10 Car chassis

Lecture 5 02-20 Microcontroller

Lecture 6 02-30 The joystick

Lecture 7 02-40 Motors and motor drivers

Lecture 8 02-50 The infrared sensor

Lecture 9 02-60 The HC-SR04 ultrasonic sensor

Lecture 10 02-70 The Bluetooth BLE AC-BT-V4 module

Lecture 11 02-80 ESP-01S WiFi module – Configuration wiring

Lecture 12 02-81 ESP-01S WiFi module – Configuration AT commands

Lecture 13 02-82 ESP-01S WiFi module – Create Blynk account and project

Lecture 14 02-83 ESP-01S WiFi module – Simple LED control with Blynk

Section 3: Assembly – Core Hardware

Lecture 15 03-10 Assemble the car kit – preparation

Lecture 16 03-11 Assemble the car kit

Lecture 17 03-20 Wire the motors

Lecture 18 03-30 Battery and power

Section 4: Project 1: Simple wired control

Lecture 19 04-10 Project introduction – objectives

Lecture 20 04-20 Quick joystick demonstration

Lecture 21 04-30 Wiring and cabling

Lecture 22 04-40 Arduino motor control sketch

Lecture 23 04-50 Testing

Section 5: Project 2: Remote control with infrared

Lecture 24 05-10 Project introduction – objectives

Lecture 25 05-20 Wiring

Lecture 26 05-30 IR remote control and sensor testing

Lecture 27 05-40 Arduino motor IR control sketch

Lecture 28 05-50 Testing

Section 6: Project 3: Remote control with Bluetooth BLE mobile app

Lecture 29 06-10 Project introduction and objectives

Lecture 30 06-20 Bluetooth BLE wiring

Lecture 31 06-30 ArduinoBlue app control UI

Lecture 32 06-40 Arduino motor control sketch

Lecture 33 06-50 Testing

Section 7: Project 4: Remote control with WiFi and mobile phone via Blynk

Lecture 34 07-10 Project introduction and objectives

Lecture 35 07-20 ESP01S module wiring

Lecture 36 07-30 Verify WiFi connectivity to Blynk

Lecture 37 07-40 Setup RC Car Blynk project

Lecture 38 07-50 Setup Blynk mobile dashboard

Lecture 39 07-60 Arduino motor control sketch

Lecture 40 07-70 Testing

Section 8: Improvements

Lecture 41 8-10 Speed control with the joystick

Lecture 42 8-20 Ultrasonic anti-crash system

Lecture 43 8-30 Make the car beep with the buzzer

Lecture 44 8-40 Fix not-straight drive

Lecture 45 8-50 Motor start-stop button

Lecture 46 8-60 Independent power source for the motors

Lecture 47 8-70 Use the EN pins for speed control

Learners who have just completed Arduino Step by Step Getting Started or equivelant course, or have beginner-level Arduino skills.