I built a Raspberry Pi/Android driven toy car
Hardware
robotics toy car
SHOW HN2012
I built a Raspberry Pi/Android driven toy car
A Raspberry Pi/Android driven toy car
news.ycombinator.com#raspberry pi#android accelerometer#robot car#dc motor control
64points
22comments
#363of 1,677 in 2012
Top 22%of 2012 by points
How HN took it
LovedMost comments that take a side are positive
7 positive, 2 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 0 critical, out of 9 comments about the project. Thread score +0.55.
Idea: 5 for, 0 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Cool, natural phone-tilt control
From 3 comments
Fascinating project. This is definitely HN-worthy.
mmastrac on HNAgreed, this is really cool. Can you post a video that shows you driving it while tilting your phone?
adriand on HNJust saw the video it's awesome idea to control bot by accelerometer.
navneetpandey on HN
Potential product or featured project
From 2 comments
That is really cool! Seems to me you're close to having a product you could sell. Nice work!
adriand on HNBrilliant project. Thanks for sharing. You should send this to the people at raspberrypi.org and/or adafruit.com as I'm sure they would feature it. I'm going to reblog it at…
recantha on HN
Requests
Show a video of driving it by tilting the phone
From 1 comment
Agreed, this is really cool. Can you post a video that shows you driving it while tilting your phone?
adriand on HN
Share how the phone connects and sends accelerometer data
From 1 comment
Hi, very interesting project! Could you tell me how you have connected the phone to the raspberry and shared the accelerometer data? Thank you very much
sirx on HN
Questions
Can Android phones drive motors directly?
From 1 comment
Has anyone had success driving motors directly from an Android device?
cookingrobot on HN