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Welcome to the PiCar wiki!

What is the PiCar?

The Raspberry PiCar project aims to design a miniature four-wheeled car powered by a Raspberry Pi B+ board. This project idea originated from a Kickstarter project called the Formula Pi. Link to Kickstarter

How do I make one?

The PiCar repository contains all the software and hardware source files required to duplicate the car, including:

• Chassis 3D printer CAD sources
• Raspberry Pi B+ breakout PCB to connect peripherals and draw power from LiPo battery
• Source code of the following software modules capable of:
  • Acquire wheel angle data from two quadrature encoders.
  • Acquire acceleration, angular velocity, and compass data from an I²C LSM9DS1 IMU.
  • Acquire video data from a Raspberry Pi NoIR camera.
  • Acquire position and angle data from a motion-capture server.
  • Control the speed of two brushless DC motors.
  • Control an I²C 8x8 LED matrix.

The PiCar Team

Fall 2016 Team:

• Adith Jagadish Boloor
• Reese Frerichs
• Humberto Gonzalez
• Jeffrey Gu
• Kristen Koyanagi
• Will Luer
• Andrew O'Sullivan
• Meizhi Wang
• Xuan (Silvia) Zhang