Simple FPV Raspberry Pi Remote control car

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A very simple FPV remote control car. I always wanted to build an FPV remote control car since I was kid. Naturally the first thing we made when we got a Raspberry Pi.

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Creating a clone of the SD card using mac
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Reference used - http://computers.tutsplus.com/articles/how-to-clone-raspberry-pi-sd-cards-using-the-command-line-in-os-x--mac-59911 .
This process is excruciatingly slow. Need to find an ...

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Remote control the Raspberry Pi
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For remotely controlling the raspberry pi we wrote a simple script that can be executed from the ...

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Weight balance
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Notice that the phone was mounted at the very front of the car. Ours is a 3 ...

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Achieving FPV
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Nexus 4 was used as the camera. Used an app called Wifi camera - https://play.google.com ...

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Grounding the 2 supply
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Since we are using 2 power source (Lipo and portable battery bank), for the circuits to work ...

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Separate power line for Raspberry Pi
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Since Lipo-L293d combination is ill suited for Raspberry Pi we looked for an alternate solution. Portable mobile ...

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Raspberry Pi power requirements
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Raspberry Pi also runs on 5V. So initially we collected it to the supply 5V rail that ...

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5V supply for l293d
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To create a 5v supply for L293d we used a 7805. 7805 dropped the battery voltage from ...

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Motion logic
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To move forward - Both left motor and right motor turn on. To turn right, Left motor turn ...

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Motor driver
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We used L293d as our motor driver. L293d gives up to 600mA of current, which was good ...

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Other parts used
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8 volts Lipo used to power the robot
Portable battery used for cell phones.
Nexus 4

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Req: Suggestion to make a simple RC Car.
asked 1 month, 1 week ago by satyadev yalavarthy 2 answers

Simple RC Car: 
I have Raspberry Pi.
Could you suggest what all other devices required to make ...

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