Robot Car Project: Part 3: Installing Raspberry Pi OS Lite

In Part 2 of this series, I mentioned that we’ll use a Raspberry Pi Zero W. The plan at the moment is to install a kind of pass-through program (Firmata) onto the Arduino that will allow us to read and write to the I/O pins of the Arduino via USB cable. First though, we need […]

Robot Car Project: Part 2: Basic Materials

Alright. So in the first post of this series, I introduced the robot car hacking project now underway. In this post, I’ll document the materials I think we’ll use to make WALL-E do more interesting things than the stock kit affords him to do out of the box. What can we work with out of […]

Robot Car Project: Part 1: Introduction

I recently purchased an ELEGOO Smart Robot Car Kit V3.0 Plus during Prime Day. My 5 year old son and I assembled it as a STEM learning project. He loves the assembled robot and he named it “WALL-E” after one of his favorite movie characters. Once we were done building WALL-E, my son asked if […]

Raspberry Pi Bookshelf on Ubuntu 20.10 amd64

Happy Thanksgiving! I recently started using Ubuntu 20.10 amd64 on my new HP Omen 5 laptop where I’ll be developing some software for Raspberry Pi. I had originally tried to use Raspberry Pi OS on one of my Raspberry Pi 3B+ boards, but found that the OS hung up under general use (I like browser […]