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Zoomy is a remote control and video stream host for Raspberry Pi, allowing you to control an RC car over WiFi w/ a video feed.

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RC RPi Car

This is a work in process, will fill in more details on assembly at some point.

Zoomy is a remote control and video stream host for Raspberry Pi, allowing you to control an RC car over WiFi w/ a video feed. This setup can integrate to just about any smaller RC car, and should run fine on any Raspberry Pi that has onboard wireless, otherwise you'll need to supply a WiFi dongle.

I found mjpg-streamer to have the fastest frame rate and latency by default.

Hardware:

1x Cheap amazon RC car (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07X8773JJ)
1x L298N Motor Driver
1x LiPo battery (7.4v 2000mah in my case)
1x Raspberry Pi v3 (any WiFi enabled Pi should work)
1x Raspi Camera or USB camera (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B073183KYK)
1x USB Battery Pack 5v/2a
1x Firm platform for mounting gear on RC car, adhesive or something similar
15x thin jumper cables for raspi
Soldering equipment

Software:

node (https://github.com/nodejs/node)
mjpg-streamer (https://github.com/jacksonliam/mjpg-streamer)
socket.io (https://github.com/socketio/socket.io)
pigpio (https://github.com/fivdi/pigpio)

Startup:

./mjpeg_streamer_launch.sh
sudo node --inspect webserver.js
navigate to http://zoomy:8080 and use WASD to control, 1/2/3 for LOW/MEDIUM/HIGH speed.

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