Thank you for visiting. This page demonstrates and
describes a Freescale HCS12 Autonomous Robotic Car.
The mission of this project was to assemble a microcontroller
onto a completely disassembled chassis. A Dremel was used to create
additional specific hole cutouts for exact alignment of all
components. Soldering was done underneath the chassis for
battery holder and terminal posts. Li-ion 18650 batteries were
chosen for power. Also, the final mission, which was the most complex
was to code the HCS12 car to drive a track twice
and stop within meters of the second crossing. I chose to use
a RTI (real-time interrupt), two key-wakeup interrupts, and a
TOF (timer overflow) interrupt. The embedded video will demonstrate
that it worked as expected.
If video formats are not supported in your browser, download the
robotic car demo (.mp4 being the better quality) below: