Driving RC Cars with Node.js and C++

Prerequisites / Dependencies

• NPM
• Node.js
• Node Serial Port (Node.js package to access serial ports for reading and writing)
  • https://github.com/voodootikigod/node-serialport

npm install serialport

• Node Servi (A simple library for serving web pages)
  • https://www.npmjs.com/package/servi

npm install servi

• Basic soldering

RC Car

• Picking an RC Car
• Wiring Digital vs Analog Buttons
• Determining power consumption differences needed for various controllers

Arduino

• Creating serial server and mapping input to GPIO
  • Need 4 GPIO for Car and 2 GPIO for TX/RX via USB
  • Arduino Nano or larger required*
    • Using Uno for this project

Node.js

• Running Node v0.12.0 as serial client.
  • Currently having issues with memory leak
  • Could also use Socat in Linux or Virtual Serial Port in Windows