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Drive an RC car with first-person view

Arduino TeamSeptember 9th, 2016

If you’ve ever dreamt of sitting in the driver’s seat of an RC car, you’ll love this recent project from Paul Yan. The designer has hacked together a first-person driving experience using a natural steering wheel that lets you feel like you’re playing a race kart game in real life.

As he describes in the video below, Yan used an old PS2 wheel controller, two Arduinos, a mini FPV camera, and a headset as a standalone monitor. The RC car–which is equipped with a Micro–interfaces with the wheel using an Uno and a PS2 Shield. Both Arduinos communicate via a pair of nRF24L01 modules.

I got the idea for this project while watching my three-year-old son play with his radio controlled toy cars. These all use the conventional two joysticks. The left is isolated to vertical movement to control the motor and the right stick is isolated to horizontal movement to control the turning direction of the front wheels.

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6 Responses to “Drive an RC car with first-person view”

  1. benjatraverso Says:

    Awesomeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!

  2. pranavgulati Says:

    Which camera is it, partno. /link

  3. LysiasT Says:

    awesome

  4. wutu Says:

    Awesome project!! But I have only steering wheel with USB (for PC). It is also possible to use?
    Thx for sharing.

  5. youssef_salehe Says:

    its awesome!!

  6. muniralshishani Says:

    Yes its awesome, and good project.

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