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Arduino Pinewood Derby Car

Posted by: Olva , September 18, 2016

This cool and unique project will take your Derby race car to a new level. This Derby car uses an Arduino compatible microcontroller board and a set of colored flashing LEDs that depends on the orientation of the car.

What you’ll need

  • Official Pinewood Derby car kit (2 or more: if you’re like me, you’ll make mistakes and need to start over).
  • Arduino compatible microcontroller (1: for this project, I used a Teensy 3.0
  • Arduino compatible battery
  • Battery charging module
  • Power switch
  • Accelerometer
  • LEDs (3.7 V or higher) with matching resistors (10)
  • Ribbon cable (2 feet)
  • #2 wood screws (part #1LB35)
  • #2 nylon washers (part #534-3347)
  • Red and Black connector wire (24ga or equivalent)
  • Prototype board

Tools:

  • Pencil
  • 12 inch ruler
  • X-acto knife or similar
  • ½ inch or smaller Chisel
  • Soldering Iron & Solder
  • Epoxy
  • Paint, brushes, sandpaper
  • Hand saw, band saw and/or table saw
  • [optional] bench sander

Source code

The project’s Arduino source code is available here.

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