The plan this time around is to take a one-button remote control car and make it autonomous so it can wonder the house on its own. One day maybe I'll have it map things using a Raspberry Pi Zero, but for now it will be Arduino controlled and use an ultra-sonic sensor to 'see'.
The toy car itself is pretty simple, and seems to be designed to be modular with the control chip being on a daughter board. All of the control for lights, motor and sound run to that board-to-board connector making it easy to hack! For those looking for their own, it seems to run under the name "My First RC Car" and it's manufactured by a company called Parent's which is out of China. It has three following delightful traits:
- Six transistor-controlled LEDs (no idea amperage ability, 3 channels with two LEDs each)
- A speaker with amplifier (for vroom-vroom noises)
- A single momentary switch just for beep-beep noises
- A one-way single button radio
- A zainy drive system that can go forward or steer to the left (no reversing p