RC Cars & Boats
Turn RC cars, rovers and boats into smart, camera-equipped, self-driving machines.
RC Car Speedometer and Battery Telemetry on Your Phone
A magnet, a Hall sensor and an ESP32 measure real speed and pack voltage and stream them to a web page.
TechnicianBuild a Rover with 3D-Printed Parts from the Vault
Combine our free Pico plate, battery cradle and ultrasonic bracket into a Wi-Fi rover you drive from your phone.
TechnicianRC Lap Timer with an Infrared Gate
An IR break-beam across the finish line records every lap to the millisecond and shows a leaderboard.
TechnicianUpgrade a Cheap Toy RC Car with an ESP32
Replace the toy's receiver board with an ESP32 and a motor driver and drive it from your phone over Wi-Fi.
TechnicianRC Crawler Scout Camera with a Pan Servo
Keep your normal radio for driving, add a Pi Zero camera that streams to your phone and a servo that turns it from a spare channel.
TechnicianRC Jump Meter: Airtime and Landing G-Force with a Pico
An IMU on your basher detects free-fall, times every jump and records how hard you landed.
TechnicianSmart RC Car: Drive from Your Phone with a Live Camera
Replace the RC receiver with a Raspberry Pi and control steering and throttle from a web page.
EngineerSelf-Driving RC Car with DonkeyCar and a Neural Network
Drive laps to collect data, train an AI model on your computer and let the car drive itself.
CommanderAutonomous GPS RC Boat with ArduPilot Rover
Plan waypoints on a map and let your boat survey a lake or canal on its own.
CommanderRC Car That Drives Back to Start with GPS
Write your own navigation code: the Pi remembers where you started and steers the car home at a slow, safe speed.
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