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RC Car with SAMD51 Thing Plus

Description

Project link

Designed and built a RC car base while working on UTSA RAS's rover project.

We used the SBUS protocol of rx/tx and decoded on the SAMD51 Thing Plus board.
Based on the inputs from the RC controllers throttle and sterring channels, we output an analog signal out of the boards DAC pins.

We were only getting about 2.8V max from the pins so an op amp circuit was added to double the signal range.

Demo video below.
Project code is in the top link.

System Diagram

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Driving Example