Cellphone Controlled Robot

Cellphone Controlled Robot

If you can get through the cell phone text speak, you’ll probably enjoy this cool tutorial on how to build a cell phone controlled robot. This bot decodes the key tones, similar to the automated phone systems we’ve all experienced. It uses a chip called a MT8870 DTMF decoder to translate the signal for the Atmega 16 controller or if you can find ways to use other microcontrollers such as Zilog or the PIC. The circuit diagram is pretty hard to read but I think it easier for you guys since you have experiences from designs and hacks on circuits, maybe we missed a downloadable one somewhere. The source code is available. It would be nice to get some feedback from the robot, so you aren’t driving it completely blind. This is similar to the Lego cell phone rover .  In the future this mobot will recognize voices to follow.