If you re looking for a car that s a bit smaller and easier to handle than the Exceed Magnet for Donkeycar, the 1:18th scale LaTrax Rally (https://amzn.to/45jWFDD) is great. Brushed motor, easy to add a third RC channel as an e-stop and fits the RP5 with the RC hat perfectly. You can use the RC it [ ]
Yes, you can run Donkeycar, with a full end-to-end neural network driving autonomously, on tiny and cheap 1:28th scale cars! It s perfect for indoors and small patios that don t have room for bigger RC cars. Not only that, but you can use the RC controllers they come with. Here s how to do it for less [ ]
I was recently given a Quectel LG290P GNSS RTK Receiver and a Micoair LR900-F LoRa to evaluate for use as a Rover in combination with an appropriate Base Station for outdoor autonomous RC car racing.The Quectel LG290P GNSS RTK Receiver came in the form of a Sparkfun Quadband GNSS RTK Breakout Board and the Micoair [ ]
I m clearing out my workshop and giving away a bunch of wheeled robots, all in good condition, that I won t have time to use. These are free to a good home, but you must be willing to pick them up in the San Francisco Bay Area, either in East Bay or Palo Alto. DM me [ ]
The $268 Waveshare PiRacer Pro (Waveshare, Amazon) is my favorite ready-to-run Donkeycar autonomous car, at least as far as the hardware goes. But it comes with badly outdated software, which is no longer supported by the Donkeycar project. So when you get one, the first thing you re going to want to do is load the [ ]
(This has nothing to do with robocars but I had to post it somewhere) The Rotrics DexArm is a really good and cheap Chinese robot arm, which started as a Kickstarter project. I got a few of them, mostly to play around with 3D printing with multiple arms. It s designed to do 3D printing out [ ]
If you re converting an off-the-shelf RC car to full autonomy with Donkeycar, one of the questions you may have is why you can t use the RC controller the car came with instead of using a Bluetooth gaming joypad. The old answer was that the RC signal has to go through the RaspberryPi and be processed [ ]
Whoa, wait a minute! Isn t this a Robo Car website? True, but wouldn t it be nice to have an autonomous lawnmower to save you from spending time mowing your lawn and therefore give you more free time to do RC Car racing? If so, read on to give you an idea of how I built [ ]
Even though RTK GPS hardware has come down in price substantially over the last couple of years, building a RTK GPS Base Station is still not inexpensive for the average RC Car enthusiast. However there is hope and I will show how a barebones Base Station can be built at a reasonable out of pocket [ ]
Almost three years ago zlite contributed a blog post titled Using ArduRover with an RTK GPS . It was an excellent article that detailed using existing RTK GPS hardware available at the time to provide RC Car course guidance using ArduRover with a Base Station/Rover RTK GPS configuration. In this blog post I will detail how [ ]