This has never been a problem before, But I’m coming up on the fifth revision and im starting to mix them up. So time to do the work and get the schematics on to eagle.

This is the first revision of the Electronic speed controller (Ecs). The labels don’t show on the print, don’t know why.

I’m doing the other board to while trying a sort of ardouino aproch to it and keeping it in modules to easy be able to uppgrade or repair sigle parts.

http://www.mydiycnc.com/complete_kit

A cnc has never been so cheap, Granted this is not that powerful. But if your not in a hurry you can mill almost anything in this machine. I’m really trying to Find a way(economically and practically) that makes me own one of these sweet little  factory on a desk.

As it it now i’m so limited of what i can make, hardware wise.

I must say I’m not that impressed so far; the boat does not stay true when steering and the controls feels uneven for left and right. I might also have fucked up a bit and managed to get the boat stuck not once but twice, leaving me no choice but to go after it.

I will decide what to do with the boat during the next few days.

The  package was in extremely bad shape so my hopes was pretty low, but the people over at nitrotek  made a good job packaging it  and the boat was safe underneath a  ”boatload”  of padding.

I will try to run the boat in a local lake tomorrow if I get the time.

I’ve started looking into the hardware of the boat. It’s a simplistic TX/RX solution based on TX-2  from Silan Microelectronics, so it’s Full Right/Left or Full throttle forward. Looks to be running at  a 3,3v level, so overriding the commands will be easypeasy.

While trying some overrides, I caused a small fire on the board but this was easily fixed later on. The best part with the board being so “pre 2000″ is that it’s easy to repair if you’re a “do first and think later”-kind of guy like me.

Don’t think I will mount any of my own  logic on the boat today. I want to see it run at least once.

I’ve been looking for a used rc boat to prototype on, but the market for used, cheap rc boats here is almost non existent. Therfore I decided to buy a new, cheep one. Found this boat on www.rsb.se forum.

The best part of this boat is that it’s big. It’s a full meter long = Loads of space to build on.

I’m hoping for this to arive the coming week,

http://www.nitrotek.se/1-14-skalas-spurt-radiostyrd-motorbat-1m.html

I will write more on the boat when I get my hands on it.

First test

After I made sure it worked, I hot glued every part onto a plastic cutout the same size as the lamp, so it would fit snuggly in the lamp.

Put everything back up behind the lamp, took a life insurance and flipped the switch.

I’m most pleased with the result

I’ts straight forward work, Will make a litle card for the Microprocessor to sit on later, I’ve “modded” and old car USB charger to supply the 5 volts for the microprocessor

Almost done here

still for the Lights project

Now i have everything i need to build the Two lights one light switch  project!

The joy!

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