WiCar: A Wifi controlled remote car
Maker Faire Bay Area 2016
MAKERS
Jeffrey Huang
Jeffrey is a 11-year old maker with about 1 year of electronics experience. He does iOS and has 1 app on the app store. Jeffrey spends most of his spare time in his basement doing electronics. He also set up a weekend class to teach kids electronics.
Patrick Harris
From missiles to medical devices Patrick Harris has been involved in all phases of the design and development of new and innovative products. He runs a weekend meetup called Electronix Talk.
The WiCar uses IoT to receive data from a phone so it knows where to go when you press a button. You can control it from anywhere as long as they are on the same WiFi network. Additional sensors can be attached to sense the environment around it.
What inspired you to make this project?:
I liked playing with remote controlled cars, and the problem with the other cars is the fact that they use radio signals to tell the car what to do. If other cars are in close proximity, you can end up controlling them, too. Wifi is kind of a new way to do it, since Wifi signals don't interfere with each other like radio signals do. Wifi relies on ip addresses, and each device has it's own ip address.
