Mini RC Car - Part 5 (final)

After weeks of 'other things', here is the 5^th and final post on the Mini RC Car project.

It's alive!!!

This final configuration works on a single 9v battery. Yes only one power supply because I found the real source of the noise problem coming from the DC motor. Like any good bug it was a code 12 since I assumed that the motor had a capacitor on it... NOT!  Here you can "see" the result.

Parts:

1x racetrack toy car

1x micro servo

1x 9v battery

1x 5v power regulator

1x pn2222 transistor

1x 1N4001 rectifier diode

4x ceramic 0.1uf capacitors

1x 16MHz crystal

1x 28 pin socket

1x 4 pins female headers

1x 3 pins male headers

1 9v snap connector

1 Atmega328

1 BlueSmirf bluetooth breakout board

1 PCB
1 Wires

scrap metal/wood for structure

Tools:

Dremel

Soldering iron

Hot glue gun

Arduino board (e.g. UNO) for programming the chip

Android device with bluetooth

For the maniacs out there I'll probably add this on Instructables where I'll go over all the geeky details.

To view the whole project go here.

Thanks for reading.

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Off the top of my head, here's things that greatly influenced me:

Paul Bourke

Pixar

Craig Venter Institute

Ender's Game

Bodyguard of Lies

The Millennium Problems

The Manhattan Project

The Empire Strikes Back

Crossroad

For me this was:

Finding inspiration in formulas

Validation that a company can be both technical and artistic

Exponential advance of technology

The start of my love for reading

Confirmation that I will never have enough information about the history of war

My love for mathematics

A geek making a difference

My first first art influence in Ralph McQuarrie

When music grabbed my attention