CosmicSail
RC Boats extended by an autopilot and smartphone control
CosmicSail launched on August 6, 2020 with 3 votes, #1,916 of 3,833 launches that month.
What it does
Wouldn't it be super awesome if you could control your RC Boat from your smartphone, drive it autonomously and save trips for later analysis? That's what I asked myself a while ago and here we are: I am controlling my boat with a Raspberrypi and a Surfstick!
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all alternatives →- IBI built a Raspberry Pi/Android driven toy car2012 · i.imgur.com · ▲64
I am not sure if this is fits the HN community, but I am posting it here if people are interested. This is the current iteration of the car: http://i.imgur.com/ko8YBh.jpg Details: I wrote a simple android app that streams the accelerometer data from the phone to the pi over a simple socket. The pi then uses this data to drive the DC motor and the servo motor. Tilting the phone to control the car feels very natural. In this[0] pic you can see the wifi dongle I've used. I am using Adafruit Occidental v0.2[1] as my OS because it has support for my wifi dongle. It also makes some hardware…
I built a system to drive my RC car from anywhere in the worldJan 2026 · github.com · ▲6Wanted to share a project I've been working on. Basically lets you drive an RC car remotely over the internet with live FPV video. I'm arranging outdoor time attack tournaments with friends, somewhere in woods or in the open field. The setup: - Raspberry Pi Zero 2W mounted on the car with a wide-angle camera - ESP32 on the transmitter generating joystick voltages (needed because ARRMA's 2-in-1 ESC/receiver has no accessible inputs) - Cloudflare for the networking magic (TURN, Tunnel, Workers) - Browser-based controls - works on phone or desktop What it does: - ~100-200ms control latency…
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