Under the bonnet

Welcome to Pi-Cars ‘under the bonnet’ where you get to work out how to interact with your Pi-Car and also – if you have bought a tool-kit – how to build it.

Let’s get going – click on one of the links below:

Quick Starts (use these if you already have a Raspberry Pi up and running and a Pi-Car built):

• Jump Start with Python – get the wheels turning in 4 lines of code

• Jump Start with Scratch – use the Pi Store to get everything you need

 Set-up and background:

• What is it? – I have a Pi-Car or a Pi-Car tool kit but still don’t really understand what it is and what the point of it is

• Set up your Raspberry Pi – making sure your Raspberry Pi is good to go – you can skip this if you have a Raspberry Pi up and running

• What is the Pi-Cars Software Tool Box?

Factory:

• Tool Kit – how to create a Pi-Car with the breadboard based Tool Kit

Driving Lessons:

• Using Scratch with your Pi-Car

• Python Driving Lesson #1 – Pi-Cars and Python – an introduction

• Python Driving Lesson #2 – Constants and print statement

• Python Driving Lesson #3 – Variables and commenting

• Python Driving Lesson #4 – If statements and operators

• Example Python code

We have built this section on some very simple rules:

• Our aim is that anyone can use these sessions without any prior knowledge to interact with their Pi-Cars to learn about programming and electronics.
• If you get stuck on any of them please leave a comment on the session or contact us at info@pi-cars.com . Don’t worry if you think the question has already been answered before it can sometimes be difficult to find the answer – we don’t want any orphaned pi-cars.