Convert a 2.4GHz Cordless Phone/Docking Station Into Radio System?

[Serum]

Get your old avatar back Brain..

[redshift]

I think this could be quite challenging, you could press 2 for forward, 3 for forward/right, etc, call waiting might really screw things up, but hey can your FASST take messages?

Yeah, thought not...

And if you have some issue you just can't solve, just press 0 for the operator.

[BrianG]

Originally Posted by Serum

Get your old avatar back Brain..

Why? I like the new one better.

[brijar]

Wow, when I got up this morning, I looked at the thread and was like, "WOW! 32 posts overnight! The guys must've had some really good ideas!"

[sarcasm]After reading through the posts, I am a bit discouraged. I don't have a spare dishwasher to modify for space flight! You guys sure are jerks for assuming that everyone and his brother just has a dishwasher laying around. We're not all that fortunate, you know. Oh, and by the way, a Kenmore would be a poor choice for space flight. A whirlpool would be much better.[/sarcasm]

So, is there any chance that we could talk about cordless phones? Or does nobody really have any good ideas for making one into a radio system.
I would think you'd have to use an encoder to encode a signal into the transmitter, then use a decoder to decode the signal from the speaker in the phone, that way you can have multiple channels.
I honestly don't know how encoders and decoders work, or even if this is how they can be used. Someone else would have to know what chips would be good for this and/or how to program them correctly.
The main point is to not have to spend $100+ on a good radio system, though I'll probably end up doing that anyways.

I've considered FM radios, but I'd really have to get a synthesized one, as the "no more channel conflicts" is one of the things I want in a radio system.

I just thought of something a bit different. If you could get a blue tooth receiver on your RC car, you could use your laptop and a Blue Tooth adapter to control the car. Of course you'd then need to adapt your transmitter to talk to the laptop, but that's not hard. Just rewire the potentiometers to an Xbox controller, put a USB plug on the Xbox controller, then use XBCD drivers and you'll have a transmitter that works as a controller for your PC . That's how I'm making my own Logitech G25 for $65.

Brijar!!!

(Thank you to the 5 ½ people that tried to help me with my question)

Originally Posted by brijar

Wow, when I got up this morning, I looked at the thread and was like, "WOW! 32 posts overnight! The guys must've had some really good ideas!"

[sarcasm]After reading through the posts, I am a bit discouraged. I don't have a spare dishwasher to modify for space flight! You guys sure are jerks for assuming that everyone and his brother just has a dishwasher laying around. We're not all that fortunate, you know. Oh, and by the way, a Kenmore would be a poor choice for space flight. A whirlpool would be much better.[/sarcasm]

So, is there any chance that we could talk about cordless phones? Or does nobody really have any good ideas for making one into a radio system.
I would think you'd have to use an encoder to encode a signal into the transmitter, then use a decoder to decode the signal from the speaker in the phone, that way you can have multiple channels.
I honestly don't know how encoders and decoders work, or even if this is how they can be used. Someone else would have to know what chips would be good for this and/or how to program them correctly.
The main point is to not have to spend $100+ on a good radio system, though I'll probably end up doing that anyways.

I've considered FM radios, but I'd really have to get a synthesized one, as the "no more channel conflicts" is one of the things I want in a radio system.

I just thought of something a bit different. If you could get a blue tooth receiver on your RC car, you could use your laptop and a Blue Tooth adapter to control the car. Of course you'd then need to adapt your transmitter to talk to the laptop, but that's not hard. Just rewire the potentiometers to an Xbox controller, put a USB plug on the Xbox controller, then use XBCD drivers and you'll have a transmitter that works as a controller for your PC . That's how I'm making my own Logitech G25 for $65.

Brijar!!!

(Thank you to the 5 ½ people that tried to help me with my question)

the thing with the 2.4 ghz band is its the most popular band that is used today and the RC radio systems change frequencies at a very fast rate to get around this I think its something like every 2-5ms. Before I bought my FASST I looked at the FM radios and the FASST didnt cost much more than a synthiesed FM sysytem. There was a link to a sysytem that was about $120 earlier in the thread I would get that and dont try to be McGyver...