Week 1: Car Assembling and Raspberry Pi Initializing

Pi2go MK2

Smart car assembling and introduction:
In the first week of the project, the research group received the components that will be used in the project.

The first thing to do is to assemble the smart car Pi2go MK2. In specific, Pi2go MK2 contains a chip which could control different parts of the car. The raspberry pi uses the GPIO connections to control and power the smart car.

Figure 1: GPIO pins to control the car

System instaling:
Having assembled the car, the research group began to initialize the raspberry pi. According to the instruction, the research group had to instore an operating system into the SD card with SD card formatter and Win 32 Disk Imager.

Problem-solving:

However, when the raspberry is equipped with the operating system and plugged into a screen, the screen showed the following alert: kernel failure. To solve the problem, the research group tried to restart the pi for several times and it still shows a failure.

Then, the research group thought that might be a problem related to the ISO copy of the system. Following this train of thought, the research downloaded the system again and install the system again in the SD. Surprisingly, this action did not solve this problem. Instead, the problem remains the same. 

Figure 2: Win32 Disk Imager

Because it seems that the problem cannot be solved on a software level, the research group tried to use backup components to have another trial. When using another SD card to install the system, it turns out that the system could be run on the pi successfully. From this trial, we could know that it must be the problem of the SD card.