Robot Cars
Introduction & Overview
This is the Robot Car page, where we are listing all the Robot Cars, like DIY RoboCars (Donkey Car - http://www.donkeycar.com/) and Other Differential Drive Cars
Robot Cars
For the 2022-2023 school year, we are using our Robot platforms in the a few competitions. While there is a focus on the DIY Donkey Cars, this page will focus on all DIY R/C cars as well as our Differential drive robots.
The Robot Car platforms, are designed to solve the challenge of AI Machine learning navigation on a flat track. The object of the challenge is to build a car using a Raspberry Pi or Jetson Nano to train on the track and then autonomously drive it's self.
This page will also focus on controlling cars, both R/C 1/10 scale as well as a bunch of Differential Drive Robots over a local wifi network. This page will also show how to control Differential Drive cars using the same DIY donkey car controls, just with differential drive commands rather than servo commands (maybe it's just translating the servo command to differential drive steering instructions.)
Lizzy Borrayo
DIY RoboCar #2 AM
(Name Your Car)
DIY RoboCar #3 PM
(Name Your Car)
DIY RoboCar #4 PM
(Name Your Car)
DIY RoboCar #5 Crawler
DIY RoboCar #6
My Big Truck
New Links & Resources:
These are resources, that have been added in the last few weeks. They were found by your teacher or fellow students. Take a look. There are linked here, but also will be listed under an appropriate heading below too...
DIY ROBOCARS
TBD Rules
Track Specifications
Mechatronics Engineering - Robot Cars - Lessons, Lectures, Labs:
Lesson 1 - Intro to RC cars
Lesson 2 - How Radios Work to the RC controller
Lesson 3 - Raspberry Pi - Controlling a Servo
Lesson 4 - Raspberry Pi - 16 Channel Servo Controller and I2C
Random Stuff To Sort
http://2xod.com/articles/raspberry-pi-wifi-usb-webcam-rc-car/
Donkey Car parts - Sombrero for connecting a Lipo Bat to gives the Car motors and the Raspberry Pi <-- But You can't get these
May be able to get some ideas, even if this is a kit. - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyMq5KOcgTg
Instructables - Raspberry Pi Smartphone Controlled RC Car