Bob Blick wrote:
>
> Jeremy Darling said:
> > The particular cars that I am
> > working with run about 40mph on a track that is 120ft long and  32ft
> > wide with 8ft segments.  I hope that the pic will be fast enough to
> > control the car at this low speed (normally they run about 60mph).
>
> I believe a human's clock speed is more than that of a PIC, 40mph might be
> a bit too much to expect ;-)
>
> Wasn't it Tony Nixon who was controlling (real) automobiles with a
> microcontroller?
>


Yep. Still doing it. Gone to AI now.

A single PIC is still used however, as the hardware controller.

regards

Tony

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