Hi all, its been a very long time.
not done any projects for a few years and am now getting back into it as have come up with a plan I would like to achieve!
I have decided to build a RC bus from scratch. (god help me)
I'm breaking all the circuits required down into separate ones before joining them altogether and make then fully remote control, and with the option of flicking a switch and some of the systems turn automatic depending on where the bus is at that current point.
Display board. Displaying destinations and also numbers on the right as you face it. Is it possible to get the OLED to use 3/4 of the display as two lines and then the last 1/4 to be large numbers? if not, just large letters and numbers using both lines.
a couple of the circuits will be operated by servo such as doors opening and the bus kneeling. which could be directly done by rc control, but my thinking is I want to be able to have a separate control, made from picaxe. Lets say for now it has up, down, left, right arrows, and two additional button. Left opens doors, right closes doors, up changes display to a higher number messaged, down to a lower number message. and the additional buttons makes it lower and raise. is this all do able with picaxe and limited electronics experience or am I starting to really punch above everything?
lastly what i would like to achieve is the remote has a switch, if its off, doors and kneeling is manually done via remote, flick the switch on and it does the following
shuts off remote buttons, and makes it all automatic.
have some bus stops made they will have for example IR built in and the bus has some built in, when it pulls up they send the information to the bus to open doors and kneel. certain bus stops will send new destination codes, so it will change the display. after a delay of 3 seconds it automatically closes doors raises.
trying to give it the manual touch, but if set out say 5 to 10 bus stops in a loop, it can travel along and automatically update and operate as you get to the stops in turn.
many thanks in advance for any advice given.
not done any projects for a few years and am now getting back into it as have come up with a plan I would like to achieve!
I have decided to build a RC bus from scratch. (god help me)
I'm breaking all the circuits required down into separate ones before joining them altogether and make then fully remote control, and with the option of flicking a switch and some of the systems turn automatic depending on where the bus is at that current point.
Display board. Displaying destinations and also numbers on the right as you face it. Is it possible to get the OLED to use 3/4 of the display as two lines and then the last 1/4 to be large numbers? if not, just large letters and numbers using both lines.
a couple of the circuits will be operated by servo such as doors opening and the bus kneeling. which could be directly done by rc control, but my thinking is I want to be able to have a separate control, made from picaxe. Lets say for now it has up, down, left, right arrows, and two additional button. Left opens doors, right closes doors, up changes display to a higher number messaged, down to a lower number message. and the additional buttons makes it lower and raise. is this all do able with picaxe and limited electronics experience or am I starting to really punch above everything?
lastly what i would like to achieve is the remote has a switch, if its off, doors and kneeling is manually done via remote, flick the switch on and it does the following
shuts off remote buttons, and makes it all automatic.
have some bus stops made they will have for example IR built in and the bus has some built in, when it pulls up they send the information to the bus to open doors and kneel. certain bus stops will send new destination codes, so it will change the display. after a delay of 3 seconds it automatically closes doors raises.
trying to give it the manual touch, but if set out say 5 to 10 bus stops in a loop, it can travel along and automatically update and operate as you get to the stops in turn.
many thanks in advance for any advice given.