The A-Cute Car Robotic Kit is driven by two DC motors. It can move in any direction, by changing the speed and direction of each wheel by changing the speed and direction of the two DC motors. The car is equipped with a sensor board which contains seven-line tracking sensors by implementing the line following function. It also contains a power convert system so the car can be driven by 3.3V~12V battery pack. The A-Cute Car also contains an IR receiver so that the car can be remotely controlled with the IR controller included in the car kit. Buzzers and lamps are equipped just for fun.
A-Cute Car Robotic Kit contains a 2×20 GPIO expansion header and a 2×6 TMD expansion header. The 2×6 TMD expansion header can be expanded with the Terasic Bluetooth module BTS-TMD, so the car can be remotely controlled with a Bluetooth device, e.g. Android Cell Phone. Besides the hardware, the car kit also includes open source examples. Based on the example codes, developers can quickly implement their application designs.
A-Cute Car Robotic Kit consists of three boards:
1- DE0-Nano FPGA Board: Main board for logic control.
2- Driving Board: Provides power convert and drive DC motors, buzzer, lamps, IR receiver and ADC chip.
3- Sensor board: Contains Seven sensors to track the black line.
Features of the A-Cute Car Robotic Kit:
Accelerated by FPGA
Power by DC 3.3V ~ 12V
AA x4 battery Holder
Seven sensor array to follow the line
Buzzer
Two car lamps
IR receiver
ADC chip to digitized the input power and line sensors
Expansion Headers