This project happened on a dare. I just figured out how to receive/interpret/use the serial stream from an RC receiver on an esp32 using the Arduino IDE (I was never really an RC person, but I was RC curious).
However, I had not yet completed two rites of passage for most maker-types;
1) I had never built anything really robotic, and
2) I had never built anything seriously battery-powered.
Despite this lack of experience, I proclaimed on September 26 that I thought I could do this project and publish a video on it by Halloween. I’m gonna skip straight to the “Build Instructions” part if the reader is curious on how to do this, and I am happy to lay it out.
You can read the instructions and follow along on my full build video as well:
I've considered something similar, I started by replacing the motor controller with one from Pololu that can take several kinds of inputs including R/C PWM. I never made up my mind on a steering mechanism. Could you elaborate at all on how that's mounted and manufactured?