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Controlling Arduino wirelessly

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For my design project my group was thinking of making a remote control car with sphere as wheels thus giving it the ability to crab left and right, now the problem we are having is figuring out how to control the "car". Our plan so far is to use an Arduino to control 4 motor, one on each wheel, and currently use my Helicopter RC unit, but the problem with this is that we would not be able to turn it in due to the fact that I most likely would not get the RC unit back. We cannot buy it because our budget would not allow it. Thus our plan is to use an Arduino with the Adafruit motor shield (http://www.ladyada.net/make/mshield/) and thats how far we got any ideas?

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one of our members was throwing the idea of using an XBEE shield (http://www.dfrobot.com/index.php?route= ... duct_id=61) along with the motor shiled mentioned above and his question is that can an Iphone control the Arduino through the zigbee protocol?

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You could do it with a pair of XBees and XBee adapters. http://www.adafruit.com/products/126 and make a control box with some joysticks.

Another option is a wireless PS2 game controller. These are fairly cheap and there is an interface library written for the Arduino. Range is a little limited, but it is probably the quickest path to a controller.

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If you don't mind linking a tutorial on Xbees because I am slightly confused on how they work. I know they work like WiFi adapters on the zigbee protocol but do they link up and how do you send data across the two xbees? Is it a simple a set of values given to the Xbee from one side is seen by the other Xbee? or do I have to do anything special?

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Here is the tutorial: http://www.ladyada.net/make/xbee/
There is also an excellent book on the topic: http://www.adafruit.com/products/963

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Is it possible to control the Arduino using a bluetooth shield and a BANNED three Controller?

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Yes. There is a 3-part series on the subject at this site: https://www.circuitsathome.com/arduino_ ... d_projects

I think you will find the wireless PS2 controller solution is considerably easier to implement.

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