PiCar-X: Raspberry Pi Robot Car by SunFounder 🚗

I've had a look at a few robot car kits, but they mostly use Arduino boards for the car's "brain". This time I'm using the far more powerful Raspberry Pi 4. Let's check out what that extra computational power can do.

This robot car was kindly supplied by SunFounder for review, so please use this (affiliate) link to check out their product in more detail https://www.sunfounder.com/products/picar-x?ref=nlrq3y-lbgm

More links with other buying options -

PiCarX:
Official Site:
https://www.sunfounder.com/products/picar-x?ref=nlrq3y-lbgm

Amazon US:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08F46Q24N

Amazon Canada:
https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B08PYMWNC4

Amazon Japan:
https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B08FBT71Z2

Amazon UK:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08FB6P88L

Amazon DE:
https://www.amazon.de/dp/B08FB6P88L

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This is a long video, so here are some chapter markers if you want to skip to the bit you are more interested in.

0:00 Introduction
1:16 Unboxing
5:15 Building the PiCar-X
8:40 Zeroing the servos
13:19 Testing the Car with the example code
23:54 Using EZblock studio via a browser window
30:55 Testing out my own program
34:31 Using Python directly on the PiCar-X
38:36 Conclusions