Mobile and ROS robots

MentorPi A1 (Monocular Camera Version)

MentorPi A1 with a 2DOF monocular camera and lidar: a Raspberry Pi 5 Ackermann robot car for ROS2.

Raspberry Pi
Suggested for secondary
Suggested for university

This is the monocular camera version of MentorPi A1, sold as a single kit. It is the same Ackermann-steered Raspberry Pi 5 robot car running ROS2, with closed-loop encoder motors and a lidar, but it carries a 2DOF monocular camera in place of the 3D depth camera and has no AI voice interaction module. It handles SLAM mapping, path planning, visual recognition and autonomous navigation, and YOLOv11 detects road signs and traffic lights. Hiwonder supplies ROS2 tutorials and video guides.

Zeta42 is an authorised Hiwonder partner in the Middle East.

Configurations

Choose how it ships.

Controller: Without Raspberry Pi 5 · With Raspberry Pi 5 2GB · With Raspberry Pi 5 4GB · With Raspberry Pi 5 8GB · With Raspberry Pi 5 16GB

What it does

Built for.

2DOF monocular camera
The camera moves on an anti-blocking servo mount, and together with the chassis gives the car a full 360° view.
Lidar navigation
The lidar handles obstacle avoidance, target following, fixed-point and multi-point navigation, path planning and global task navigation.
Vision and YOLO
With OpenCV the car tracks colours and targets, follows lines of a chosen colour and decodes QR codes. YOLO detects objects, and YOLOv11 training lets it recognise road signs and traffic lights.
MediaPipe interaction
The MediaPipe framework adds fingertip recognition, human body recognition, 3D detection and 3D face detection.
Ackermann steering
A digital servo turns the front wheels for car-style steering, on an anodised aluminium chassis with metal-gear encoder motors.
Control
Drive it from the WonderPi app on iOS or Android, from PC software, or with a wireless handle over Bluetooth.

Where it is used