Ah! Christmas has come and gone once more. I’m still recovering from the food intake, though no hangover for boxing day which is a great thing.
Two items from the Christmas goodies I’m looking forward to :
a) BigTrak Jr – it’s a small tank from the 80s that you can use a keypad on its back to program movements and tank fire. It comes with a 3.5 audio jack that is used for accessories that trigger 5v when the tank is fired. I’m thinking an arduino powered accessory for the top, or carefully putting a micro in the device in parallel so it can run off normal controller or be swapped to remote control via a cheap radio link.
b) a mini cooper rc car – this is just begging to have the controller messed with. It’s a nice simple job of some transistors to act as relays and boxing it back up again.
Just wish I had gotten myself a new soldering iron.