Controlling a car robot from a computer

We can control our robot from a computer. This means that we can send commands to the robot to perform an action. In order to send a communication between a computer and robot, we need a communication module on both.

In this section, we will build a communication between the Pololu Zumo robot and a computer. I usually use Bluetooth modules as wireless stacks for communication.

Controlling a car robot from a computer

For implementation, I use Bluetooth HC-06. This is a Bluetooth slave, so we can communicate directly through UART protocol. The Bluetooth HC-06 module is cheap, and you can buy it on banggood.com, eBay, dx.com, and AliExpress.

The Bluetooth ...

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