How To Create A RC Car With Raspberry Pi and WD PiDrive

CKWD · 17 Mar 2016

Hello ladies andgents!

@z3r010 from SevenForums pointed mehere to share this project, but since I don't want to interrupt yourdiscussions on The Raspberry Pi Thread [2], I thought it would be better to create a new thread. :)

It's a cool short video that my colleagues from WD Labs have made! It shows the RPi and the Pi drive used together on a remote-controlled car with a camera demonstrating how it operates.

YouTube Video: WD PiDrive 314GB - How To Create A RC Car With Raspberry Pi:

I hope you guys find this small technical project interesting. If you have any questions, feel free to ask. :)

Cheers!

CK_WD

caperjack · 17 Mar 2016

interesting hdd for sure ,we were discussing in the Pi thread ,I read some info that they might be hdd that had problems with bad sectors and reformatted to a good part of the drive ,hence the funny size number

CKWD · 18 Mar 2016

Hey, thank you for the interest! :)

Actually, this is not a relabeled or reused drive, it was specifically engineered for the Raspberry Pi. It was build off of the WD Blue.

CK_WD

caperjack · 18 Mar 2016

CKWD said:

Hey, thank you for the interest! :)

Actually, this is not a relabeled or reused drive, it was specifically engineered for the Raspberry Pi. It was build off of the WD Blue.

CK_WD

yes I under stand that ,but what I read somewhere was they used a bad batch of drives to make them ,, not saying it true ,just saying I read it somewhere the other day,just a rumor ,I think but its being said
.if they sold local I would consider buying one/

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I read it on a Pi community on Google+.
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Since it has odd capacity some people said it's re-certified 500GB HD with bad blocks... I am skipping it.

CKWD · 18 Mar 2016

Unfortunately, the PiDrive momentarily is not sold in Canada, in the US the nearest. :/

Thank you again for the information! :)

CK_WD