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### Description
This repository, includes everything necessary to set up a Smartcar platform. The Smartcar, is a vehicular educational platform, which enables the user to develop various robotic applications in an affordable, pedagogic and easy way. It is intended for persons with basic programming knowledge and little to no experience of electronics, mechanics or robotics. More experienced users, should also find this approach convenient, due to its open source nature, high level API and object oriented design.

The platform, hardware wise is focused (but not explicitely dependent) around the Smartcar shield. The Smartcar shield is an open hardware PCB, that is effortlessly stacked on top of an Arduino. It includes an L293D H-bridge chip, that drives the motors, screw terminals to connect the motors and a battery to them and a GY-50 gyroscope module (based on the L3G4200D sensor). In [extras/eagle/smartcar_shield](/extras/eagle/smartcar_shield) you can find the design files for the board, in a modifiable form, using free software. There are also the options, to order it as-is, from either USA or China based manufacturers. The Smartcar shield, facilitates efficient cable management, helps to preserve space and is as small as possible, in order to keep the manufacturing price low. Additionally, the components necessary to assemble it, are widely available over the Internet.
The platform, hardware wise is focused (but not explicitely dependent) around the Smartcar shield. The Smartcar shield is an open hardware PCB, that is effortlessly stacked on top of an Arduino. It includes an L293D H-bridge chip, that drives the motors, screw terminals to connect the motors and a battery to them and a GY-50 gyroscope module (based on the L3G4200D sensor). In [extras/eagle/smartcar_shield](/extras/eagle/smartcar_shield) you can find the design files for the board, in a modifiable form, using free software. There are also the options, to order it as-is, from either USA or China based manufacturers. The Smartcar shield, facilitates efficient cable management, helps to preserve space and is as small as possible, in order to keep the manufacturing price low. Additionally, the components necessary to assemble it, are widely available over the Internet. Furthermore, you can find 2D CAD drawings of the Smartcar chassis in various formats, at [/extras/cad/2D](extras/cad/2D) which you can freely use in order to fabricate your own, e.g. with a milling machine or a laser cutter.

The software, is the Smartcar shield Arduino library. It sports a high level API, meant to enable its users to perform tasks easily, with as few lines of code possible. It intends to hide implementation details or low level hardware operations, that might estrange the average user. The library, handles the various components (i.e. the vehicle and the various sensors) as objects, therefore enabling trivial control over the car's functions. The various operations exposed by the API, are thoroughly explained in [wiki/API-documentation](../../wiki/API-documentation).

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* *.dwg

### Preview
![smartcar chassis](http://i.imgur.com/z8nbeuF.png)
![smartcar chassis](http://i.imgur.com/mM6PAL9.png)

### License
CC BY-SA 4.0
CC BY-SA 4.0

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