I am starting my final quarter to get my associates degree and I have some ideas for my final project. Looking at my son's toys I thought it would be a fun project if I built a transmitter that could send two specific signals (I don't have any chosen already) and the signal would then be recieved by a small enough reciever that would fit on the side of a wooden thomas train. the outputs of the reciever would then trigger either a forward or reverse motion in a small motor that would be fixed underneath the train.
I'm totally excited to work on this and have built a couple transmitters and recievers in my classes but have no experience with motor control and am unsure how to design the transmitter to send out two signals depending on a switch or something similar and I am also wondering if instead of having the reciever output to a speaker- would it power a small motor instead?
Any help would be greatly appreciated. I'm not looking for someone to do the work for me, but hoping to get some help being pointed in the right direction, also trying to make this as easy to control as possible since I want my 3 year old to be able to operate this as welll
I'm totally excited to work on this and have built a couple transmitters and recievers in my classes but have no experience with motor control and am unsure how to design the transmitter to send out two signals depending on a switch or something similar and I am also wondering if instead of having the reciever output to a speaker- would it power a small motor instead?
Any help would be greatly appreciated. I'm not looking for someone to do the work for me, but hoping to get some help being pointed in the right direction, also trying to make this as easy to control as possible since I want my 3 year old to be able to operate this as welll
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