How to Control any R/C car with an airplane transmitter!!

Have you ever wondered if you could use your R/C airplane transmitter to control any R/C car as well?
                   How awesome would it be to have 6 or more channels to control your R/C car, and also customize each channel as per your choice?
                   I’ve been longing to make something so that I could make this possible so I started off with a little bit of research soon after my 8th grade exams. During my holidays last month, at the age of 14, I finally completed the project and now have a wonderful piece of circuitry which I can integrate on just any R/C car and use the airplane transmitter to control it after customizing every channel just the way I like.
                   I’ve been very excited about this ever since I completed it and wish to share with everyone how exactly I made it so you guys could enjoy too!! Well this tutorial explains exactly how I made this piece of circuit in detail. If you still happen to have any doubts, please feel free to post your queries and comments, and it’ll be my pleasure to answer!

Enjoy the instructable!! :-)

Step 1: Gathering Your Parts!

Parts Required 
                                                
1. Flysky Transmitter and Receiver
2. L298n Motor Driver Shield (Parts list and tutorial for the shield is below)
3. Arduino Mega 2560
4. An R/C Car
5. 9v battery
6. 7v NiCd Battery

Comments

[AnjanBabu]

Excellent. I'm still held back with the MCU type DC motor control to run toy cars with my RC equipment.
Also, does this setup allow for variable speed control? and I'm sure I can make this one work with the modest Arduino UNO.

[angpal59]

I am definetely following you, you are a genius, I would give my left arm to be as smart as you, thanks for your help and I hope not to bother you with an abundance of questions. Thanks again vKarpuram

[angpal59]

Can I use a L293DNE ias a substitute?

[vkarpuram]

Yes!

[angpal59]

You know what bums me out is your 16 and I'm 53 and you know more in your pinky finger than I know about this completely (lol), I need your help, I will pay you if I have to to show me a few things, I cant get my motors to run, thats all I want to do, I have the 6 channel flysky model FS-CT6B and all I want to do is make channels 5 and 6 to run my motors and also as a bonus if you can show me how to make my servos go the 180degrees unless you cant on this paerticular transmitter. I know you are probably a busy guy, but man oh man I would love some help, Thanks angpal59

[vkarpuram]

Hello angpal59. would be possible for you to use channel 5 but not channel 6 as the last channel is pcm not ppm! You can use a motor shield for this too. For the servo part, you just have to connect it to the respective channel on the receiver.

[angpal59]

or if I already have a motor shield, can I use that?

[harry88]

So there is no delay beetween when you press the button and the motor "goes"?

[harry88]

Hi I think its awesome that you can do all this at the age of. 14 I would like to get in touch with you I am only 13 and none of my friends can make sense of what I'm saying most of the time. I have a moderate understanding of aurduino programming and I have a traxxas tmax and a hobbyzone supercub I would love to meet you and maybe do a colarberation on some of my project ideas. Sorry about spelling errors I am no good at typing on my touch screen kindle fire.

[eXtremeSomething]

A great way of getting extra channels for servos and other actuators into a car.
:D

As a side note i think there might be laws that require you to only use certain frequencies on the ground or at set locations, and aircraft usualy use a different frequency.

[vkarpuram]

Yeah, the 2.4GHz is a universal frequency and dosen't cause interference, so it should be fine.

[Beergnome]

this is correct. The old school AM and FM transmitters operate in frequency bands set aside JUST for either surface or air radios.

its is illegal to use a air radio for a surface device and vica versa. But, since this is a 2.4ghz radio and the RX is "bound" to the TX, this is no longer a problem and you can use a 2.5 for either surface or air.

if the 'ible was using a traditional air radio for a surface model I would have to call schinangins.

[rishal]

nice tutorial, could i use the l293D as a sustitute instead of the L298n?

[vkarpuram]

yes, you can use any other motor driver, as per your requirements.

[mkarpuram]

Cool and Innovative :)

[gupta karpuram]

awesome

[Jason Bedard]

Love it.

[vkarpuram]

Thanks guys :)

[Bongmaster]

neatage :) i have that radio set too :)