Serial connected micro controller to drive vehicle

Question 1

Hi guys,

I have a serial connected micro controller, which prints out x and y coordinates (its basically a touchpad) using baud rate 9600.

It is possible to use these coordinates to drive the car? Like, if you position on the touchpad is top middle, it would go straight forward and top left would drive and turn left etc.

Question 2

As long as you could read the values of the controller within Unity, then you should be able to write a script to translate such values to vehicle input.

Vehicles receive input via data bus. See examples here:
https://vehiclephysics.com/advanced/databus-reference/

So all you have to do is to get the values from your micro controller (I can't help you here, but surely there are plenty of resources out there) and then pass them to your vehicle's data bus.

Edy · Answer 1 · 2021-04-01T15:36:47+0000

As long as you could read the values of the controller within Unity, then you should be able to write a script to translate such values to vehicle input.

Vehicles receive input via data bus. See examples here:
https://vehiclephysics.com/advanced/databus-reference/

So all you have to do is to get the values from your micro controller (I can't help you here, but surely there are plenty of resources out there) and then pass them to your vehicle's data bus.

Serial connected micro controller to drive vehicle

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