Introducing the Raspberry Pi Robot Car

I would like to introduce you to T.A.R.A.S, the robot car. T.A.R.A.S is actually a backronym; I took the name from a business mentor of mine who helped me get started. After scratching my head trying to come up with something, I finally figured out how to turn my friend Taras into T.A.R.A.S, this Amazing Raspberry-Pi Automated Security agent. As you can probably tell from the name, T.A.R.A.S will monitor things for us and act as an automated security guard.

T.A.R.A.S will use Raspberry Pi for a brain and motor driver boards to control both the movement of its camera gimbal and wheels. T.A.R.A.S will also have sensory inputs as well as LED and buzzer outputs. T.A.R.A.S will be an aggregation of the skills ...

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