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Giving Claude a body: a Raspberry Pi robot
A YouTuber wired Claude to a Raspberry Pi with a camera, speaker and motors so it could see, talk and move around.
Credits
- Video channel Coding with Lewis Source ↗
Earliest dated source:
The full story
Lewis Menelaws put Claude Code on a Raspberry Pi 5 inside an RC car with a 4G modem, a wide-angle camera on a servo, a servo driver for steering and a custom bypass for the motor controller. Depth estimation and an MCP server let Claude choose where to drive and what to look at, and a grid of stitched images gave it a sense of where it had been.
He then sent it out to explore snowy woodland on its own. The video was sponsored by Anthropic.
Parts and cost
- Raspberry Pi 5 running Claude Code
- 4G HAT for remote access
- 16 MP wide-angle camera on a servo mount
- PCA9685 servo driver for steering
- RC car with the speed controller bypassed for motor control
How it was done
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Sources
From the maker's own write-up or code. We summarise what they report; we haven't tested it ourselves.
- YouTube: I Gave Claude a BodyVideo channel: Coding with LewisPublished
The build video, with the full parts list in the description.
- The project: clau.de
Linked in the post.