KIDA (v00): Kinetic Interactive Drive Automaton

A Raspberry Pi 3 robot is a small programmable robot powered by a Raspberry Pi 3 Model B, used as its main brain.

Related Projects

• WHIP-Robot-v00
• KIDA-Robot-v01
• NORA-Robot-v00
• ComCentre
• RIFT

• pip install flask picamera2 opencv-python psutil
• python server.py
• then open http://:5000 on any device on your network

Functions:

• 🎮 Remote Control
• 🖥️ VNC Control
• Web Control
• 📸 Image Capture (Photograph)
• 🎥 Video Recording
• 📡 Ultrasonic Obstacle Detection
• Line Following
• 📺 Live Video Streaming
• 🌈 RGB Lighting Control
• Gender/Age Detection

🧩 Hardware Components

• 🛞 Tank-Based Chassis
• 🧠 Raspberry Pi 3
• ⚙️ Freenove Robotics HAT
• 📏 Ultrasonic Sensor
• 📷 Raspberry Pi Camera Module

KIDA Pinout Configuration

This document describes the GPIO pin assignments for the KIDA robot. Uses the V2 robot Hat from the Freenove Tank Robot: https://github.com/Freenove/Freenove_Tank_Robot_Kit_for_Raspberry_Pi

Ultrasonic Sensor (HC-SR04)

Signal	GPIO Pin
TRIGGER_PIN	27
ECHO_PIN	22

---

Infrared Sensors

Sensor	GPIO Pin
IR01	16
IR02	26
IR03	21

---

Motor Pins

Left Motor:

Signal	GPIO Pin
IN1	24
IN2	23

Right Motor:

Signal	GPIO Pin
IN1	5
IN2	6

Note: These pins correspond to the constructor defaults:

How to Run:

Environment Setup/Install Dependencies

python3 -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate
pip install --upgrade pip
pip install -r requirements.txt

Run run.py to run KIDA

python run.py

Network Setup

• 📡 SSID: KIDAv00

• 🔒 Password: 12345678

• 🌐 Access your site at: http://192.168.4.1:5000

  
  

sudo apt update
sudo apt install hostapd dnsmasq -y

sudo systemctl stop hostapd
sudo systemctl stop dnsmasq

sudo nano /etc/dhcpcd.conf

sudo nano /etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf

interface=wlan0
driver=nl80211
ssid=KIDAv00
hw_mode=g
channel=7
wmm_enabled=0
macaddr_acl=0
auth_algs=1
ignore_broadcast_ssid=0

wpa=2
wpa_passphrase=12345678
wpa_key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
rsn_pairwise=CCMP

sudo nano /etc/default/hostapd

#DAEMON_CONF=""

DAEMON_CONF="/etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf"

sudo mv /etc/dnsmasq.conf /etc/dnsmasq.conf.bak

sudo nano /etc/dnsmasq.conf

interface=wlan0
dhcp-range=192.168.4.2,192.168.4.50,255.255.255.0,24h

sudo systemctl unmask hostapd
sudo systemctl enable hostapd
sudo systemctl enable dnsmasq

Requirements:

Package                      Version
---------------------------- ---------
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astroid                      3.3.8
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av                           14.2.0
babel                        2.17.0
bcrypt                       4.2.0
beautifulsoup4               4.13.4
blinker                      1.9.0
certifi                      2025.1.31
chardet                      5.2.0
charset-normalizer           3.4.2
click                        8.1.8
cloud-init                   25.2
colorzero                    2.0
configobj                    5.0.9
cryptography                 43.0.0
cssselect                    1.3.0
cupshelpers                  1.0
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dill                         0.4.0
distro                       1.9.0
docutils                     0.21.2
Flask                        3.1.1
fqdn                         1.5.1
freetype-py                  2.5.1
gpiod                        2.2.0
gpiozero                     2.0.1
html5lib-modern              1.2
idna                         3.10
inflect                      7.3.1
isoduration                  20.11.0
isort                        6.0.1
itsdangerous                 2.2.0
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jsonschema-specifications    2023.12.1
lgpio                        0.2.2.0
libarchive-c                 5.1
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logilab-common               2.1.0
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parso                        0.8.4
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pgzero                       1.2.1
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