Robot car powered by LoPy and L298N

[Dirac]

Silly little project for the kids

(Could have just as well used a Wipy - but I don't have one - yet)

[Dirac]

@PiAir will share code (and wiring) once I have upgraded to latest firmware and made it work again - I am still running the factory version from October kickstarter delivery...

Could take a couple of weeks

[PiAir]

Nice! Would you care to share the code that you used, so others can also play with it? :)

[Dirac]

@livius

• Funny choice of car ;-)
  Chosen because it was available and remote broken - and cute

• Is this power bank on the back side or something else?
  Yup - just a normal USB powerbank so that I can rapidly swap out, powers both the motor & electronics

• And how do you control it by wifi, bluetooth?
  Wifi - either upload a path programmed in python, can also enter commands directly via putty

Next plan is to add bumper switches front and back, to make truly autonomous driving programs.

One day I want to find a Lora network and see if I can get instructions out and data back - closer to an IoT use case.

[livius]

@Dirac
Funny choice of car ;-)

Is this power bank on the back side or something else?
And how do you control it by wifi, bluetooth?