building a remote control?

[King TonGoll]

i have been looking for how to's on google, cant find one that is not specified to building a childs toy car.

i want a signle function remote to a object i plan on building.

i need to know how to build a remote completly costum to what i am doing, from allmost scratch, does anyone know anything about this? i know basic programing for automotive robots, but i want to make a RC robot, and a wireless one at that. (not even a robot in this case) it is going to be a single function (with the ability for the program to be reboted of course. but ill be working on the program relativily by myself.)

what i want to know is how to build a remote controlling device. and how to make a port that would recieve the radio signals being put out by it....

anyone have expierience on this?

 

[Varine]

You would need to get a transmitter and reciever and then build the power source of the remote, so whenever you push the button it completes the circuit and sends the signal to reciever. I would imagine you could find one that comes in a set or something and take lessons from that. I don't know what you would do to make the reciever make the body move.

 

[King TonGoll]

thanks, thats actually a amazing explanation......

good job man! im going to look into it a bit more now...

 

[Varine]

I would assume that you're buying parts of it premade (because building the transmitter and programming the firmware and all that by hand for this specifically would be a pain), so you could probably find one on the robotics sites.

 

[King TonGoll]

I would assume that you're buying parts of it premade (because building the transmitter and programming the firmware and all that by hand for this specifically would be a pain), so you could probably find one on the robotics sites.

i have been looking on robotics site, but thats the idea im building everything from as close as i can get to schratch to lower production cost.

i have a friend who is into programming and agreed to help me so i think ill be fine.

 

[gameman]

You can just buy a rc remote that allows the changing of its signals; that way you wont need to make the remote, just the receiver.

 

[Varine]

i have been looking on robotics site, but thats the idea im building everything from as close as i can get to schratch to lower production cost.

Yeah but the issue isn't in the programming necessarily. A lot of premade motors with the recievers on them will let you reprogram it, but obviously cost more than they do seperated (I assume anyway). However, if you just have a reciever you would have to program the firmware that runs everything, which isn't impossible but it would also take a lot longer. Things like C++ are a lot different.

 

[muqtada123]

you can google for tutorials online