Hi Everyone
I made this basic Unmanned Ground Vehicle from scratch last year.Its controlled through hyper terminal on Windows( after I connect the transmitter/ remote control to the serial port ). The thing is that now I want to control it on some better interface, maybe using visual basic or C#...any ideas how I can go about it or get started???
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So I guess you're using xbees, one attached to your regular computer and one on the vehicle? and you open up hyperterminal on your regular computer and type in simple commands and they're transferred to the vehicle which interprets them and moves the wheels a bit.
There's nothing wrong with the xbee/serial interface itself, that's probably as good as any for pushing data back and forth. You can definitely open up serial ports with visual basic and C# programs (I just did a search on google and some examples come up). Then as a first step you could develop a little visual basic gui with some buttons that just sends the same commands as you're currently typing into hyperterminal.
hopefully this is useful. good luck.