Components, components, components....

Hi again!

As promised! Today I'll show you the electronics more close up and also show the housing for everything.

After second thoughts, I'll start off by showing you the housing and how i made it.

It's a standard electronics box which meassures 14 - 8.5 - 4 (l - w - h) centimeters. It's bought from a local hobbies shop here in Linköping, Sweden. ( ~ $2)

I drilled some holes in a pattern that matches the Arduino so that it fits and stays on the same place in the box. I also hot-glued some motherboard fittings so that I actually can screw the Arduino in place =)

The lid is used for the breadboard (fitted with dual-sided tape).

Arduino fitted. I also drilled some holes so that i can reprogram the Arduino whenever i want. Also, the cables for the servos and power supply needed to go through somewhere.

 I also made a cable making me able to connect the Arduino to the micro receiver in the car which in turn will make med able to steer and control the car from the Arduino. It's a standard jR servo female adapter soldered together with some standard breadboard cables.

All electronics together.



The components then?
Well, as promised:

• 1 modded Traxxas Revo 3.3 (~$550)
• 1 Arduino UNO v1 (~$40)
• 1 Sharp GP2Y0A21YK0F 10-80cm analog distance sensor (~$13)
• 1 180 slots breadboard (~$10)
• Cables, lots of 'em (~$20)
• ...plus everything else that i forgot =)

So, this far the build has costed me a little above $630. And at this moment i doesn't have all components!! I still need a BlueSmirf Gold bluetooth module, some additional wires and a couple more sensors just in case!

What do you think? Am I missing something important or do you have other comments? Feel free to let them rain below!

Next time I'll show you some code to get you on your way! And for the ones out there that already have programmed with an Arduino, I'll code everything in hardware-close C. Not the combined multiuse  package that Arduino.cc gives you =)

'Till next time!

Circuits in and out!