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The tank is built around the Arduino platform and includes the headers of a standard Arduino. The Manual comes with a code to control the tank connected directly to the computer via USB. Using PuTTY we can communicate to the tank to tell it to go forward, left, right, and reverse using the corresponding keys w, a, d, s.
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Having the tank connected directly to the computer limits the range the robot travels to the length of the cord. One could use XBees but we decided to use the eZ430 because it is easier to interface with the robot.
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