Toy Car That Drives on Its Own

So I designed a simple toy car that drives around on its own, the user of this car has the flexiblity to code it however they want. The toy car has a ultrasonic distance senson and has 2 front wheel drive motors. The user can program the car to turn right or left when the sensor detects an object at a specified distance. I had learnt TinkerCAD in middle school and now in highschool we use fusion 360 and inventor. It was nice to use TinkerCAD and Fusion360 after a long time.

Fusion 360 and TinkerCad and some basic coding.

Designing the car on TinkerCAD should not be hard if you follow the steps in this video.

The electrical parts needed are in the components section. From this section bring in the followin parts - Arduino, bread board, distance sensor(four pin), 2 DC motors, and DRIV. After bringing in these part set them up as shown in the picture above. If you need more help with setting this up contact me I can send sample code/programs and a video on how to set it up as well. I had issues uploading them.

Click send to found on the top right corner, then choose to send it to Fusion360. It should bring in all simle shapes. If you have complex shapes or parts that you have not designed it might not be seen in Fusion 360. So you will have to save it and then import it into Fusion360.

After importing it to fusion 360 on the right side of our screen you see a button called apperance. Click it and start editing the apperance of the car. I chose glass for the light so thet the distance sensor can be set up behind the lights. Then you can choose either metal or glass for the body of the car and choose a textured fabric for the seats.

Fusion 360 does a really good job converting the electric circuit u build on tinkerCAD into circuit sketches. All Tinkercad components in the Circuits library are mapped to Fusion 360’s components library so you can be sure all your components in Tinkercad will be available in Fusion 360 without any extra work. From here, you can then send your design to a PCB milling machine, such as a desktop CNC, to get your prototype board made. The autodesk ecosystem is really efficient.