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Life & fun · December 9, 2012

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I built a Raspberry Pi/Android driven toy car

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 Raspberry Pi/Android driven toy car launched on December 9, 2012 with 64 votes, #31 of 501 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches. The site was not reachable when checked in September 2026.

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This is a remote-controlled toy car powered by a Raspberry Pi and controlled via an Android smartphone. The builder created an app that streams accelerometer data from the phone to the Pi over WiFi, allowing the device to steer DC and servo motors by tilting the phone. The project uses an L293DNE motor driver chip and runs on Adafruit Occidental, chosen for its WiFi support and built-in Python libraries for hardware interaction.

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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…

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