23rd-Sep-20, 10:11 AM
I have had a bit of a re-think about this project...
The objective of the project is to expand the capability of the ARC PRO to include a 4 lane start/finish line and options for sensing slotcars entering/exitting pit lanes.
My above earlier plan was to use a PIC microcontroller as a sensor hub with all coding written in PIC ASM. This is quite hard and still leaves the challenges unanswered in terms of comms with the race management software.
So a new plan is emerging to use an ESP32 microcontroller which has onboard WiFi and BLE capability. These microcontrollers are very fast and have the necessary number of I/O pins for an advanced multisensor system.
More to follow...
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The objective of the project is to expand the capability of the ARC PRO to include a 4 lane start/finish line and options for sensing slotcars entering/exitting pit lanes.
My above earlier plan was to use a PIC microcontroller as a sensor hub with all coding written in PIC ASM. This is quite hard and still leaves the challenges unanswered in terms of comms with the race management software.
So a new plan is emerging to use an ESP32 microcontroller which has onboard WiFi and BLE capability. These microcontrollers are very fast and have the necessary number of I/O pins for an advanced multisensor system.
More to follow...
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