01 March 2008

Acceleracer Project
Micro RC Car controlled by the Nokia N95

It is a very gloomy, rainy morning here in Croatia and I am sooooo lazy today, in a matter of fact I am more sleepy than lazy, nothing strange by the way, I always get sleepy on cloudy and rainy days, how about you?

Anyway, no matter how sleepy I am I just can’t resist to introduce a brand new accelerometer based project.

First of all it is more than obviously that author has been inspired by the ShakerRacer Project that uses the Nokia N95 and its accelerometer to control the RC car by moving the phone.

Also the ShakerRacer team has released the source code along with some documentation few weeks ago and I guess that now when the source is available we can expect even more applications and projects based on the ShakerRacer to come.

The main idea behind the Acceleracer is to create a RC Control for a micro RC Car which will allow turning and accelerating car by tilting the phone. The client application on the Nokia N95 is written in Python same as shake racer.

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He used the C-Control Unit (containing a Motorola Microprocessor), a Laptop with 500 MHz, 64MiB RAM with a Bluetooth Dongle and a microRC operating on the 27MHz Band. The C-Control Chip is programmed using a Special C-Control BASIC software and Interprets the signals the mobile sends to the Laptop via Bluetooth. The Laptop only parses the data from the virtual Bluetooth port to the COM1 where