ECE497 Project Electric Car

Team members: Junxuan Hou, Zhen Wei

Grading Template
I'm using the following template to grade. Each slot is 10 points. 0 = Missing, 5=OK, 10=Wow!

 00 Executive Summary 00 Installation Instructions 00 User Instructions 00 Highlights 00 Theory of Operation 00 Work Breakdown 00 Future Work 00 Conclusions 00 Demo 00 Late Comments: I'm looking forward to seeing this.

Score: 10/100

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Executive Summary
This project interfaces the Beaglebone with motor-based electronic mini-car. The gpio pins are used to control the motor on the car to remote it. Some additional interfaces, such as a lighting sensor to control the moving direction of the car, and an analog input to control the speed of the car, are considered to be done based on the progress of the project.

Currently almost nothing works, we are planning on borrowing or purchasing a electronic car, or building one by ourselves.

Things to be done: interfacing with the motors on the car, setting up some controlling equipments(buttons, etc).

Depending on how difficult this turns out to be, we may or may not switch to a different project.

Packaging
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Parts List:
 * 1) sharp 2d120x f IR sensor    X1
 * 2) L293 H-Bridge Chip            X1
 * 3) 1N4004 Diodes                   X8
 * 4) 100 ohm Resistors              X2
 * 5) DC Brush motor                  X4
 * 6) On/Off Switch                     X1
 * 7) Robot Kits                           X1
 * 8) Beaglebone                         X1

Installation Instructions
The Github Link for this project is https://github.com/weizhen1883/Electric-Car.git.

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User Instructions
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Future Work
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