I'm quite new on this forum and I wanted to share with you one of my latest projects:
The above post contains all the details, including the code for the Arduino slave board, but in a nutsell, it's about an airsoft RC tank that I hacked so that it can be FULLY controlled by a NXT brick (programmed in LeJOS) helped by an Arduino.
I've also added an IR Camera hacked from a WiiMote, which allows it to track and lock on targets (a simple IR LED) and then fire plastic pellets at it...
I'd be very keen to have some feedback from you guys and / or any suggestions for improvement... !
I really like this and would like to add some of these concepts to my own tank projects. Could you point me to the documentation on the using the wii to detect the ir target. I'm assuming that an atmega128/328 could be used. Thanks, awesome work. By the way I am able to decode and reproduce IR pulses from Huan Qi, Forces of Valor, that might be a nice enhancement to your project.
Basically, the camera does ALL the work for you (it's not only a simple camera it also has a uC included) and outputs on a I2C bus the positions and sizes of the 1st 4 IR points it can find.
So you only need to know what are the requests you need to send on this bus and the format of the received response (both of which you can find in my code examples).
yes that's actually a great idea... then start making some loud noise, and only then fire the plastic pellet ! ...