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Automate Slot Cars with an Arduino © MIT

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You want to race with your Carrera slot cars, but have nobody who wants to
play with you? So why don´t you race against an Arduino?

car (/projecthub/projects/tags/car) fun (/projecthub/projects/tags/fun)

games (/projecthub/projects/tags/games) sports (/projecthub/projects/tags/sports)

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APPS AND ONLINE SERVICES 

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n/software)

ABOUT THIS PROJECT 

The challenge of slot car racing is to accelerate and brake the car just in the right
moment. When we want to automate this by a microcontroller, we must know where
the car actually is. Magnets which are fixed to the car´s wheels and hall effect switches
around the track are therefore a perfect way to identify the position of the car:
Whenever the car passes by a hall effect sensor, it sends an impulse to the Arduino.

Slot car passes by a hall effect switch

And this is how the Arduino sketch works: Every time when the slot car passes by a hall
effect sensor, an Interrupt routine is being called. There the hall sensor which caused the
interrupt is identified and a speed value is read out of an Array. The analogWrite()
command gives us a PWM signal which is amplified by a transistor circuit and led to the
track. So the speed of the slot cars is being controlled.

Circuitry with hall effect switches, Arduino and

transitor driver
The placement of the hall effect switches and speed values in the Arduino sketch
determine, how hard it is to win the race! Have fun!
Watch video to learn more about the details and see it in action.

How to Automate Slot Cars With an Arduino

CODE 

Github
Find everything you need to make the project by yourself

0 (https://github.com/michalin/arduracer/watchers) 0 (https://github.com/michalin/arduracer/forks)
michalin (https://github.com/michalin) / arduracer
(https://github.com/michalin/arduracer)
 Automate a slot race track with hall effect sensors and a microcontroller — Read More
(https://github.com/michalin/arduracer#readme)
https://youtu.be/rkMEo5EV-iw (https://youtu.be/rkMEo5EV-iw)

Latest commit to the master branch on 3-16-2020 Download as zip (https://github.com/michalin/arduracer/zipball/master)

Arduino Sketch
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michalin (https://github.com/michalin) / arduracer
(https://github.com/michalin/arduracer)

Automate a slot race track with hall effect sensors and a microcontroller — Read More
(https://github.com/michalin/arduracer#readme)
https://youtu.be/rkMEo5EV-iw (https://youtu.be/rkMEo5EV-iw)

Latest commit to the master branch on 3-16-2020 Download as zip (https://github.com/michalin/arduracer/zipball/master)

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