Description

Pukis is the classic convert-an-RC-car-to-a-robot project. It will be done in stages.

Stages

TBW

Building blocks

A cheap Porsche 911 GT2 RC car A bunch of Arduinos of various descriptions

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Subsystems

Lights

Handled by an Attiny85, which is fed state changes from the master controller in the car over I2C

Remote control

So far, hacking into the existing TX2/RX2 IC combo in the car. Possibly using 2.4GHz modules for two-way communication later.

The plan is to use a PC to control the car via a joystick, so on the control side we find an Arduino connected to a PC and the code to get joystick commands out in the ether.

##Why 'Pukis'?

First of all, it's 'Pūķis', but Github doesn't like exotic characters and would name the repository 'P--is', so here we are.

Pūķis is a creature from Latvian folklore. It can be translated as 'dragon' or 'imp', but the meaning I'm going for is 'devil that steals things for its master'.