How to Control Motors With Arduino and RC Receiver in 10 Minutes

This is my second tutorial on controlling things with Arduino and R/C receivers. If you haven't looked at my first tutorial I suggest you look at that first, here: https://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-control-Ard... in this tutorial we will be looking at how to control motors as well using rc.

Arduino

H-bridge shield

R/C receiver

R/C Transmitter

put the shield on top of the arduino

connect the motors to the shield

put the servo into 3.3v and gnd information line to pin 11

connect 3 wires from ch1 to pin 10, ch2 to 9 and ch3, to 8

and then 5v to batt/bind on receiver and gnd to gnd

(Click on picture for more detail and watch the other tutorial for even more info)

Here is the code please respect the time it took for this:

// RC PulseIn Serial Read out By: Nick Poole

//extended By Jason Mclaughlin

//2015

#include <Servo.h> // for servo in example

Servo myservo;//servo entity

int pos = 0; //position for servo

int ch1; // Here's where we'll keep our channel values //servo 2

int ch2; // motors

int ch3; // servo

const int channel_a_enable = 6;

const int channel_a_input_1 = 4;

const int channel_a_input_2 = 7;

const int channel_b_enable = 5;

const int channel_b_input_3 = 3;

const int channel_b_input_4 = 2;

void setup() {

pinMode( channel_a_enable, OUTPUT ); // Channel A enable

pinMode( channel_a_input_1, OUTPUT ); // Channel A input 1

pinMode( channel_a_input_2, OUTPUT ); // Channel A input 2

pinMode( channel_b_enable, OUTPUT ); // Channel B enable

pinMode( channel_b_input_3, OUTPUT ); // Channel B input 3

pinMode( channel_b_input_4, OUTPUT ); // Channel B input 4

myservo.attach(11);

pinMode(10, INPUT); // Set our input pins as such

pinMode(9, INPUT);

pinMode(8, INPUT);

Serial.begin(9600); // Pour a bowl of Serial

}

void loop() {

ch1 = pulseIn(10, HIGH, 25000); // Read the pulse width of

ch2 = pulseIn(9, HIGH, 25000); // each channel

ch3 = pulseIn(8, HIGH, 25000);

Serial.print("Channel 1:"); // Print the value of

Serial.println(ch1); // each channel

Serial.print("Channel 2:");

Serial.println(ch2);

Serial.print("Channel 3:");

Serial.println(ch3);

if ((ch3 >= 1500) && (ch3 <= 1600)){// the center postion for controller

Serial.println("between");

pos = 90;//set servo to center

myservo.write(pos); // set to pos which is 90

}

else if ((ch3 >= 1100) && (ch3 <= 1490)){

Serial.println("right");

pos = 180;

myservo.write(pos); // goes from 180 degrees to 0 degrees

// waits 15ms for the servo to reach the position

}

else{

Serial.println("Left");

(pos = 0); // goes from 0 degrees to 180 degrees

// in steps of 1 degree

myservo.write(pos);

// tell servo to go to position in variable 'pos'

}

// motor

if ((ch1 >= 1000) && (ch1 <= 1060)){

Serial.println("Motors off");

analogWrite( channel_a_enable, 125.5);

digitalWrite( channel_a_input_1, LOW);

digitalWrite( channel_a_input_2, LOW);

analogWrite( channel_b_enable, 125.5);

digitalWrite( channel_b_input_3, LOW);

digitalWrite( channel_b_input_4, LOW);

delay(50);

}

else if ((ch1 >= 1060) && (ch1 <= 1500)){

Serial.println("Motors Medium");

analogWrite( channel_a_enable, 50);

digitalWrite( channel_a_input_1, HIGH);

digitalWrite( channel_a_input_2, LOW);

analogWrite( channel_b_enable, 50);

digitalWrite( channel_b_input_3, HIGH);

digitalWrite( channel_b_input_4, LOW);

delay(50);

}

else {

Serial.println("Motors High");

analogWrite( channel_a_enable, 255);

digitalWrite( channel_a_input_1, HIGH);

digitalWrite( channel_a_input_2, LOW);

analogWrite( channel_b_enable, 255);

digitalWrite( channel_b_input_3, HIGH);

digitalWrite( channel_b_input_4, LOW);

delay(50);

}

delay(100); // I put this here just to make the terminal

// window happier

}

Test it and If it doesn't work contact me and ill try to help you. Here is a demo video from the first step if you didn't watch it.

:)