We are ready to make our final smart robot, the GPS Car! This smart vehicle is equipped with a GPS receiver and a digital magnetic compass, and its smart software allows the car to navigate to a pair of coordinates defined by the user. Yes, you can choose a location and the GPS Car will drive there! The GPS Car boasts sophisticated navigation sensors and advanced programming, which makes it the smartest robot in this book.
The GPS Car is based on the Falcon race car that we built in the previous chapter. We will convert the Falcon from remote control to autonomous by adding the navigation sensors and writing two new programs. The hardware will remain largely the same, which allows us to focus on writing our most sophisticated programs yet.
In this chapter, we will start by making some minor physical modifications to the Falcon and adding...