Wireless Joystick Hookup Guide

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Contributors: Alex the Giant

Resources and Going Further

Here are a few helpful links that might help answer any question you may still have regarding the Wireless Joystick:

For more information about using the wireless joystick with the RedBot mainboard, check out the tutorial below. The following offers an alternative example that sends one character to control a robot as opposed to sending an array to the serial controlled motor driver.

Wireless RC Robot with Arduino and XBees

March 12, 2019
In this tutorial, we will expand on the SIK for RedBot to control the robot wirelessly with XBee radios! We'll explore a different microcontroller and wirelessly control the RedBot at a distance.

Now that you've got the Wireless Joystick working, what are you going to use it for? Need some inspiration, check out the tutorials below!

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Wireless Gesture Controlled Robot

Control the RedBot wirelessly based on the movement of your hand using an accelerometer, Arduino, and XBees!

SparkFun Inventor's Kit Experiment Guide - v4.1

The SparkFun Inventor's Kit (SIK) Experiment Guide contains all of the information needed to build all five projects, encompassing 16 circuits, in the latest version of the kit, v4.1.2 and v4.1.

Calibrating Your Odometry Sensor

In this tutorial, we will cover how to calibrate your Qwiic Optical Tracking Odometry Sensor (or "OTOS") with Arduino and Python Examples.