Learn Raspberry Pi by building a robotic self-driving car with Python

Boing Boing's Shop 6:30 am Tue Jul 18, 2017

The PiCar-V learning kit comes with everything you need to build a Python-powered robot, and it’s currently being offered in the Boing Boing Store.

Raspberry Pis make great home media servers and cheap desktops workstations, but getting one of these single-board computers for the sole purpose of doing boring computer-y things is a total waste of all those GPIO pins. To fully unlock the Pi’s interactive potential, this robotics kit will guide you through everything from wiring up hardware to programming logic while you construct a miniature self-driving car.

If you follow the directions correctly, you’ll end up with a fully-functional robot equipped with a webcam for taking pictures and navigation. Since everything is open-source, you can use your Python Programming Language skills to give it whatever powers you want.

This kit is available here for $149.

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