Traxxas Now with More Horsepower

Okay, perhaps the title is a bit misleading…more computational horsepower. Today, I finally got around to mounting the TS-7800 from Technologic Systems. It’ll be running all the main processing and communicating with the micro controller via a serial port.

Additionally, we’d failed to include a shiny “GO” switch anywhere in the system so I used the DIO port on the ARM to read in a signal to indicate the mission should execute. If you are looking for sample code for the TS-7800, Eric Robishaw’s example is a good start.

If that’s a little much to parse, here’s my simpler variant. It does far less but is a test bit of code that shows the reading without a lot of extra capability.

I’ll leave you now to get back to porting code over to the board. Here’s the vehicle with its ever growing payload.

Computational Horsepower for Easy Living

Update: Just a word of warning, the distribution of Debian shipped with these board is ANCIENT. Packages are no longer available.