Open Hardware/Modding: ESP32 and Raspberry Pi Stories/Projects
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CNX Software ☛ Build a four-wheel RC car with ESP32-CAM board and off-the-shelf parts
While there are plenty of ESP32-based wireless-controlled robot cars with a built-in camera, like the PiCar-X 2.0 or Zeus Car, it might be more fun and rewarding to build something yourself. That’s exactly what Matt Sroufe did by building his own RC car using off-the-shelf parts and an ESP32-CAM board and writing firmware for it.
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Raspberry Pi Weekly Issue #490 - 150 issues of The MagPi, clever concrete, and sustainable working
Also featuring an interview with our engineer on Compute Module 5 Howdy, Welcome to February. We reconnected in early January and then *everyone* got sick, so it's been a few weeks. Luckily, this means we are here to present to you the best kind of Pi Weekly — a bumper issue. All sorts of things have been happening.
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CNX Software ☛ FlashMyPico – Raspberry Pi Pico / Pico 2 code editing and firmware flashing from a web browser
FlashMyPico website allows you to write C code, build the firmware, and flash it to your Raspberry Pi Pico, Pico W, Pico 2, or Pico 2 W directly from a web browser instead of having to check out the code from Microsoft's proprietary prison GitHub , build it in a terminal, and then manually copy the resulting binary. I’ve given it a quick with a Raspberry Pi Pico 2 board. The first step is to head over to flashmypico.com from your computer or even an Android smartphone. You’ll need a web browser that supports WebSerial/WebUSB, so for example, Firefox is not an option, and I eventually had to use Surveillance Giant Google Chrome instead.