Drive My Internet-Controlled Car!

Radio controlled toy cars don’t normally have a Raspberry Pi, 10 batteries and a stripboard loosely hanging off them, but this isn’t your standard RC car.

The primary goal of ICC was to enable a toy car (which has now become a robot, as seen in the image above) to be controlled in real-time over the internet. I did just that, and you can try it out right now!

Come and drive my Internet-Controlled Car: http://projects.bitnode.co.uk/ICC/

Read on for a technical write-up of how I completed the project.

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