HAND GESTURE CONTROLLED TOY CAR

MINI PROJECT REPORT

Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirement for the award of degree of Bachelor of Technology in
ELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING of MAHATMA GANDHI UNIVERSITY By NIKHIL P. (uni. Reg. no: 201025) PRAVEEN SOJAN (uni. Reg. no: 201032)

Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering Rajagiri School of Engineering and Technology Rajagiri Valley, Cochin - 682 039 2010-2011

Rajagiri Valley, Cochin - 682 039

DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING

CERTIFICATE
Certified that the mini project work titled HAND GESTURE CONTROLLED TOY CAR is a bonfire report of the mini project done by NIKHIL P. (uni. reg. no: 201025) and PRAVEEN SOJAN (uni. reg. no: 201032) of sixth semester Electronics and Communication Engineering in partial fulfillment of the requirement for the award of degree of Bachelor of Technology in Electronics and Communication of the Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, during the academic year 2010-2011.

Project Guide

Head of the Department

Internal Examiner

External Examiner

Place : Kakkanad Date : ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

First of all, we would like to thank God Almighty for his divine grace and blessings throughout this project. We wish to thank our Project Guide, Mr. K. Rama Varma for the guidance he showed us all through every stage of the project, from the initial conception to the final design and construction and also for the support. We would also like to thank our Head of Department Mr. Jaison Jacob for supporting us with the project. We are grateful to our lab assistants .. and................................. who were always ready to help us when we were in any need of assistance. We extend our sincere thanks to our friends, classmates and family for their wholehearted support and encouragement

ABSTRACT
In this project we are mainly controlling a toy car by hand gesture movement. The heart of the circuit is the accelerometer. An accelerometer is a device that measures proper acceleration also called the four acceleration. This is not necessarily as co-ordinate acceleration (change of velocity of the device in three-dimensional space),but is rather the type of acceleration associated with the phenomenon of weight experienced by a test mass that resides in the frame of reference of the accelerometer device. Here the acceleration of the hand is being sensed.

Accelerometer

RF Transmitter

RF Receiver

PIC Microcontroller

Motor

Motor

The movement of the hand is converted by the accelerometer into relative acceleration which is given to ADC pin of PIC microcontroller and it is later transmitted by the XBee transmitter The XBee module in the receiver section receives the signal that is transmitted from XBee module in the transmitter side .The XBee module is connected to the PIC microcontroller. The driver IC is enabled from the PIC. According to the signal, that is received on the PIC, the driver IC drives the DC motors, such that the motor rotates in a particular direction, resulting in the intended direction of motion of the car (forward, backward, left and right), which further depends on the signal/values that is received by the XBee receiver module.

CONTENTS
1. 2. INTRODUCTION.............................................................................................01 BASIC BLOCK DIAGRAM ............................................................................02 2.1 TRANSMITTER SECTION.....................................................................02 2.2 RECEIVER SECTION..............................................................................03 3. HARDWARE DESIGN....................................................................................04 3.1 SCHEMATIC DESIGN TRANSMITTER SECTION..........................04 3.2 SCHEMATIC DESIGN RECEIVER SECTION..................................04 3.3 PCB LAYOUT TRANSMITTER SECTION........................................05 3.4 PCB LAYOUT RECEIVER SECTION................................................05 3.5 CIRCUIT DESCRIPTION........................................................................06 3.6 PIC PROGRAMMING.............................................................................11 3.7 PIC CODE.................................................................................................11 3.8 IMPLEMENTATION AND TESTING....................................................15 4. RESULT AND CONCLUSION.......................................................................16 4.1 CONCLUSION.........................................................................................16 4.2 FUTURE SCOPE......................................................................................16 5. REFERENCE....................................................................................................17 APPENDIX