It is now time to bring all the pieces together on the Acebott Smart Car and make it a movable platform that can stream live video.
I’ve taken the standard ACEBOTT ESP32 Smart Car Starter Kit with Mecanum Wheels and added the ACEBOTT Bluetooth Controller Expansion for QD001 (QD010) to control its movement. I have also added the ACEBOTT ESP32 Camera Expansion pack for Smart Car (QD002) to give the car vision.
You can see that I have kept the ultrasonic sensor from QD001 and simply mounted the camera (QD002) on top to facilitate pan left and right. I could have added an additional servo to control this independently of the ultrasonic sensor, however in the end I decided that it was easier simply to print a 3D mount so the camera unit could sit above the ultrasonic senor and take advantage of the pan left and right servo already in place. I could refine the design with a separate 3D printed mount for the camera unit if desired, but for the sake of getting things working I’ve decide to stay with thsi method.
I have detailed how to get the PS3 controller (QD010) working with the robot car (QD001) here –
and I have covered off getting the camera (QD002) working stand alone here:
https://blog.ciaopslabs.com/2025/12/31/connecting-a-webcam-to-an-acebott-esp32-smart-car/
You’ll find the code and documentation in those articles. At a minimum you’ll need to program the camera (QD002) to support the creation of a web server so it can stream the video to a device.
To mount a device with a screen (an old iPhone) to the PS3 controller (QD010) I found this:
Universal smartphone mount for DUALSHOCK 3 (PS3 controller)
that I could 3D print. I did need to slight extend the width of the base to suit my controller but it worked a treat.
The above version of the holder was my first printing attempt where I broke the lower part of the base holder when attempting to fit on the controller. This lead to me slightly lengthening the model the second time around that fixed the issue. The initial broken model is secured here using some rubber bands but the re done version fits perfectly.
With the code loaded into the robot car (QD001) and the camera (QD002) as well as having the PS3 controller (QD010) connected the end result looks like:
CIAOPS Labs 