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Adding Infrared Distance Sensors to an AVR Atmega32

After the test run on the actual race course, it was clear that GPS was not going to be accurate enough to keep the car out of the pond.  I tried sonar, which is great for general obstacle avoidance because it will detect basically anything in a 45 degree cone, but it didn’t work well [...]

Adding a 3.3v GPS to a 5v AVR Atmega32

So the maiden voyage of Deathpod3000 was a disaster.  The problems seemed to be twofold.  One, gps updates were too slow and two and probably most importantly, heading info coming from the gps was way too slow to be useful in turns.  The net result was that it mostly drove around in circles.  I decided [...]