[Resolved] Arduino Homemade PS3 Controller Controlled HoverCraft

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Ok because you guys helped me tons, I will show you how my project is looking so far :smiley:

The hovercraft in its current form floats and hovers fantastically well! I'm just waiting for the pusher motor etc

Waiting for these items: 2x2200mah li-po batteries, 1x1450kv brushless motor with 30amp ESC and a few depron sheets to come in the post and once they do I will be able to finish this project and then I will upload it on the forums.

Thanks to all the posters who helped me!

As a final note: I remember just starting off with Arduino a few weeks ago! So, I'd like to say to the helpful posters, keep up the good work!

Hi all,
This time I'm making a hovercraft and basically so far I've got all the controls set and its working but I wanted to add some fading LED lights to the hovercraft but its not working. Basically I want to add the fade LED example code to my void loop in the second set of code below:
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(I do not wish to share the code yet)

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Basically I want to add the fade LED example code to my void loop in the second set of code below:

What have you tried? What were the results?

It would be helpful
if you bothered
to format your code
using Tools + Auto Format.

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I tried putting in a for loop in the HoverCraft controller code and even the fade code but it just doesn't want to work. It seems to me that my hovercraft code wont accept a for loop or any sort of looping code, I think its because the arduino cannot do 2 things at once (PS3BT and a loop)

the results were basically as I said it would only focus on either the loop or the PS3BT code.. or it would run the loop but would make the code in the PS3BT section pretty sluggish (delayed)

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I tried putting in a for loop in the HoverCraft controller code

Where is THAT code? Isn't THAT code what you need help with?

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Get rid of all your delay() calls. See 'blink without delay' example in the IDE. You might have a chance of your fade routine working then.

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Thank you Henry, you're right it was the delays causing the problem. I used the blink without delay code and now everything is working perfectly.

Thanks again!

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Hey all,

Need some help again please,

Basically I'm trying to attach another Servo to Pin10 of the Arduino but the Arduino stops responding/doesn't allow PS3Controller to connect. Can you guys take a look:

Code without Servo attached (which works perfectly):

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(I don't wish to share the code as of yet)

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Have you tried using a different pin for the servo?

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Cheers, I tried another pin and it works! Thankyou!

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Ok, just because you guys helped me tons, I will show you how my project is looking so far :smiley:

At this moment I'm waiting for 2x2200mah li-po batteries, 1x1450kv brushless motor and a few depron sheets to come in the post and once they do I will be able to finish this project and then I will upload it on the forums.

Thanks to all the posters who helped me!

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I will show you how my project is looking so far

Cool. A video, some day?

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Definitely, if everything goes accordingly :slight_smile: