Hye guys!
I am building a boat that I can controll with the arduino.
The problem now is that I want to buy a controller transmitter and a reciever, but I can't find one that is easy to use and not expensive .
Can you guys help me out?
Grtz
Brecht
"easy to use" and "not expensive" are phrases that mean something to you, but maybe something different to someone else.
Range may also be an important criterion.
Given that you have to make a transmitter panel with joysticks etc- it’s probably cheaper and more effective to buy a conventional
Radio control setup. There may be restrictions on what frequencies you can use for this purpose too
I have been looking for just a controller but I can't find one that is compatible with arduino.. Range is not that important to me, just like 5-200 meters
BrechtC99:
I have been looking for just a controller but I can't find one that is compatible with arduino.. Range is not that important to me, just like 5-200 meters
Perhaps you might explain what you mean by 'compatible with arduino'
I have several RC transmiter and receiver sets here, have used them for boats, cars and planes. I have never used or needed an Arduino with any of them.
What possible purpose can an Arduino have with your RC control of a boat?
Paul
You can easily build an Arduino based transmitter and receiver using nRF24L01+ modules. I use them for controlling model trains.
See this Simple nRF24L01+ Tutorial
It may be wise to use a high power module (with external antenna) for the transmitter.
I don't know whether you need it but a pair of nRF24s will give you a great deal more capability than off-the-shelf RC equipment, including the ability for 2-way data flows. And, AFAIK, the off-the-shelf equipment uses nRF24s (or their equivalent) under the hood.
...R
Frisky rc radios are cheap and work well. Go over to the rcgroups forum pages and look a n ask assertions there. You are not the first one integrating arduino's in rc projects and there they have all the specific rc knowledge you need.