Assemble the stack

Complete the Sandwich

Now that you have the Arduino and USB Host shield set up, the next step is to start putting the rest of it together!

Unplug the Arduino if it's still plugged in to your computer then put your Shadow Master Shield onto it so the order of your boards should be:

Arduino (bottom)

USB Host Shield (middle)

SHADOW Master (top)

Connect your stack to the car

Open the cover of the RC receiver inside the body of the Bandit. This is a little black box on the side, not the blue EC in the middle rear. There will be at least 2 sets of wires, Black, Red, and White trios. One set goes out to the EC (motor control) and the other goes to the steering servo up front. Remove these from the receiver unit keeping track of which plugged in where.

At this time, I put in a replacement set of wires for both so I could easy switch between using the RC receiver and the Shadow stack just by changing a few wires.

Now, take the original EC and servo trio sets and plug them into your Shadow Master board.

The Master board makes this easy since there are headers and printed labels on the board for easy use.

Put the EC wire where it says "motor" and the Server with the Servo. If you have a Sparkfun MP3 trigger you can also set up the 3-wires for that too.

Starting and Calibrate

With at least the Motor and Sever wire sets you are able to start testing everything with the car itself.

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