Logging and telemetry in remote controlled racing is a great thing, and not only does [jwachlin]’s Open RC Spotter do a fantastic job of that, it has quite a few clever tricks up its sleeve that make it extra special.
Open RC Spotter is an ESP32-based hardware platform for high performance RC car racing that reads from various sensors (including IMU, GPS, temperature, battery, and IR receiver for IR lap beacons) to create a filtered stream of readings that include position, velocity, lap time, battery voltage, and more.
Got RC car telemetry? Feed it to a virtual race engineer for real-time voice feedback.
This data gets logged to an SD card, but can also be broadcast wirelessly via ESP-NOW to a receiver that...
