Overview
Carduinodroid is based on a standard model car with the scale 1:10. In this project we used a Carson Streetbreaker FD.
Arduino is an opensource development platform for embedded systems. The simple handling and low costs made Arduino popular with newcomers worldwide.
For carduinodroid a Arduino Uno is used. It converts the commands received by the smartphone to electric signals and sends them to the actuators of the car (steering and engine). Correspondingly the Arduino evaluates the measurement values taken by the sensors and transmits the results to the smartphone.
In addition to the Arduino further hardware is needed for the carduinodroid. The additional hardware is used e.g. in order to control the engines and lights of the car or for monitoring the charge of the battery. Furthermore a smartphone mount was developed that allows the proper attachment of the smartphone onto the car.
>> Information about the additional hardware
An important part of carduinodroid is the Android-smartphone. It provides the transmission of sensor-data and camera-video to the PC and commands from the PC to the Arduino.
>> Information about Android-smartphone
##Desktop
The user-interface for the carduinodroid is a desktop application. By its means the user can control the car via the keyboard or a gamepad and see the camera video as well as all important data associated with the car.
