A SIMPLE PI CAR WITH WEB INTERFACE

Simple Pi Car

April 30, 2024

When I was young I took apart everything in the house to try and see how it worked. I later moved on to to building electronic contraptions. This has remained one of my favorite hobbies, tinkering and building.

I decided to build my oldest daughter a small car that she could control via an iPad or computer. The concept was simple: find a SBC that I could program to run a webserver and control the robot. In the past I've used Arduino for this type of project. The time I decided to check out Raspberry Pi.

Hands down Raspberry Pi is the superior choice. For $30 you get a powerful little computer running a linux distro, with on-board HDMI, four-USB ports and a bunch of other options.

The web interface allows the user to control the car by sending commands where you set the heading, direction speed and duration:

You can also queue-up commands and execute a "program:"

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