IR Battle Tank

MakerWorld CyberBrick
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Afternoon gang,

I keep seeing some of your awesome CyberBrick projects and it got me thinking. Has anyone found a way to pair an IR blaster/receiver yet? There are a few Arduino ones out there but the projects either use obsolete hardware or software so it would be good to see some CyberBrick versions out there.

This version is perfect, but the hardware is hard to source, same here. Somebody has remixed it to use Aduino (here) , but the software is very very old.

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CyberBrick as it currently stands is very limited, useful, but if you are used to everything available with Arduino proper (as you are) things are very restricted.

The first problem is the receiver (think vehicle) does not accept inputs, it only powers outputs.

Even if you could get the receiver to transmit IR using code, the transmitter (think other vehicle) cannot receive inputs, thus the IR receiver data cannot be captured.

I have shortened it when I explain it to others as follows:

  • The output (transmitter) doesn’t have inputs and the input (receiver) doesn’t have outputs.

It is possible a future version of CyberBrick will allow the above to make it more functional.

So much is missing that I can add on Arduino on both the receiver and transmitter.

  • Screens
  • Buttons (and matrixes)
  • IR
  • Audio
  • Buzzers
  • LED strips (real ones)
  • Presence sensors
  • Environmental sensors
  • Touch controls
  • Mains power
  • Recharging capabilities (anything currently is a hack)
  • Line tracking

Just a few limitations on existing implementations, a full list would be over a hundred

  • The UI cannot set more than one colour at the same time
  • The UI cannot set only colours changing
  • The coding system has no memory to maintain status
  • The coding system documentation is really poor, examples are few and far between and they do not include all the code required to run the provided examples
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Thanks for that reply, it explained it perfectly.

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