{"id":1969,"date":"2015-12-30T23:47:52","date_gmt":"2015-12-30T23:47:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/inspiredtoeducate.net\/inspiredtoeducate\/?p=1969"},"modified":"2015-12-30T23:47:52","modified_gmt":"2015-12-30T23:47:52","slug":"broken-toy-to-wifi-controlled-robot-diy-arduino-raspberrypi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/inspiredtoeducate.net\/inspiredtoeducate\/broken-toy-to-wifi-controlled-robot-diy-arduino-raspberrypi\/","title":{"rendered":"Broken Toy to Wifi Controlled Robot #DIY #Arduino #RaspberryPi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<!-- Facebook Like Button v1.9.6 BEGIN [http:\/\/blog.bottomlessinc.com] -->\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Finspiredtoeducate.net%2Finspiredtoeducate%2Fbroken-toy-to-wifi-controlled-robot-diy-arduino-raspberrypi%2F&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=false&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height: 30px; align: left; margin: 2px 0px 2px 0px\"><\/iframe>\n<!-- Facebook Like Button END -->\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/inspiredtoeducate.net\/inspiredtoeducate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/rcrobot.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1971\" src=\"http:\/\/inspiredtoeducate.net\/inspiredtoeducate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/rcrobot.jpg\" alt=\"Broken toy to Wifi controlled robot\" width=\"399\" height=\"351\" srcset=\"http:\/\/inspiredtoeducate.net\/inspiredtoeducate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/rcrobot.jpg 399w, http:\/\/inspiredtoeducate.net\/inspiredtoeducate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/rcrobot-300x263.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 399px) 100vw, 399px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A good friend of mine from<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sparkmacon.com\" target=\"_blank\"> our local makerspace<\/a> enjoys teaching students about electronics by taking stuff a part. \u00a0 He has a talent for finding free or inexpensive pieces that students enjoy deconstructing. \u00a0 Through this experience, he has the opportunity to connect the theory of electronics\/mechanics to real stuff. \u00a0 Inspired by this teacher, I decided to try it myself. \u00a0My sons bought a broken RC car from Good Will for $2.00. \u00a0 With the car in pieces, we started playing with the components to see if we could get anything working. \u00a0 With bread board and batteries, we found that the motors of the RC car were function. \u00a0 After an evening of hacking using an Arduino, a motor driver, a Raspberry Pi, and Wifi connector, we cobbled together a Raspberry Pi controlled robot. \u00a0(see below) \u00a0Not bad for $2.00 of source materials.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BcJAXQNXsZw\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Your Mission&#8230; Should you choice to accept it<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>So&#8230; I&#8217;d like to offer a challenge for this month.<\/p>\n<p>1. Find something broken.<\/p>\n<p>2. Take it apart, and figure out how to make something new from it.<\/p>\n<p>3. We&#8217;d\u00a0love to hear your stories of taking something broken and re-purposing it into something beautiful, fun or functional.<\/p>\n<p>Post your entries to Twitter, Instagram, Google+, or Facebook using the hashtag\u00a0<strong>#RepurposedCraft.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The best entries will experience awesome social media fame and glory. \u00a0 I&#8217;ll make sure to celebrate them on the blog too! \u00a0\ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for sharing your work!!!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Are you passionate about DIY, tinkering, and crafting? \u00a0 We would enjoy hearing what you want to make in 2016. \u00a0Thanks for taking this quick survey.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/1jT1sood-FAS0hshwJWcjuZvvr-491DY47Kqyilh9Rb4\/viewform\" target=\"_blank\">Maker Workshop Survey 2016\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<!-- Facebook Like Button v1.9.6 BEGIN [http:\/\/blog.bottomlessinc.com] -->\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Finspiredtoeducate.net%2Finspiredtoeducate%2Fbroken-toy-to-wifi-controlled-robot-diy-arduino-raspberrypi%2F&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=false&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height: 30px; align: left; margin: 2px 0px 2px 0px\"><\/iframe>\n<!-- Facebook Like Button END -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A good friend of mine from our local makerspace enjoys teaching students about electronics by taking stuff a part. \u00a0 He has a talent for finding free or inexpensive pieces that students enjoy deconstructing. \u00a0 Through this experience, he has the opportunity to connect the theory of electronics\/mechanics to real [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":[],"categories":[4,24,16,23,3,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/inspiredtoeducate.net\/inspiredtoeducate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1969"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/inspiredtoeducate.net\/inspiredtoeducate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/inspiredtoeducate.net\/inspiredtoeducate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/inspiredtoeducate.net\/inspiredtoeducate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/inspiredtoeducate.net\/inspiredtoeducate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1969"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/inspiredtoeducate.net\/inspiredtoeducate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1972,"href":"http:\/\/inspiredtoeducate.net\/inspiredtoeducate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1969\/revisions\/1972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/inspiredtoeducate.net\/inspiredtoeducate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/inspiredtoeducate.net\/inspiredtoeducate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/inspiredtoeducate.net\/inspiredtoeducate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}