HCS12

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:

HCS12 Robotic Car Doc Download