Wheelson – Build & code your own AI self-driving car

Autonomous cars are the future and we’ll show you how it works.

This tiny wheeled robot has a camera and a microcomputer and can be programmed to autonomously navigate a small road while driving, just like an autonomous car would (yeah, like Tesla).

It has built-in Bluetooth and Wi-Fi so you can connect it to other devices wirelessly.

Wheelson also has an LCD display where you can see what the robot sees.

When applying different filters and computer vision algorithms, you’ll see a different output on the screen so that you can understand how robots see and interpret the world around them.

Wheelson is powered by four small electromotors and has a rechargeable Li-Po battery included.

What you’ll get:

Main circuit board – connects everything together, has a dual-core processor with Wi-Fi & Bluetooth, and a battery charging circuit
Camera and headlights board
Display board – 128*160 TFT color display
Li-Po battery
Four electromotors
Wheels
Robot’s plastic chassis
A bag of other small components such as resistors, pushbuttons, nuts, and bolts
An instruction booklet – ready for your offline knowledge consumption

What you’ll learn:

How to assemble a small 4-wheeled robot
How to control an electromotor using a microcomputer
How computer vision works
How to calibrate your robot’s camera
How autonomous cars work and how to make your car navigate a road autonomously
How to recognize and scan a QR code using your robot’s camera
How to recognize different simple objects using a camera and image processing algorithms

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