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Product manager gives Claude a robot body
Tal Raviv built a camera-equipped robot car and let Claude drive it in a loop: photo, decision, movement.
- Profession
- Product Manager
- Tools
- Claude, Raspberry Pi
- Source
- talraviv.co ↗
- Country
- 🇺🇸 United States
- Found via
- agentusecases.ai (Alex Finn) ↗
- Report date
- no date
- Verified on
- October 25, 2026
What they did
He bought a PiCar-X kit with a camera and ultrasonic sensor, ran the control software on his laptop with the Raspberry Pi on the robot, and handed the controls to Claude, which took a photo, made a decision and moved in cycles.
How it went
The write-up covers what worked and the robot's mishaps around the house.
Good to know
A great weekend project for learning, with or without kids.
The prompt
I want to build a simple robotics project with [kit/parts] for [age/level]. Suggest 3 progressively harder challenges, what I need to buy and how to keep it safe.
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