Components for toy car hacking

What to do with a Nucleo board STM32 L053R8 (Ultra-low-power ARM Cortex-M0+ MCU with 64 Kbytes Flash, 32 MHz CPU, USB) ... Some toy car robots ??

Searching for components:

• the keywords are: DIY, Starter kit, Robotics kit, Breadboard kit, learning kit ...
• OM electronique http://www.omelectronique.fr/ (Grenoble)
• Competitive eBay shop and nice 48h shipment
• Amazon, eBay, banggood aliexpress dealextreme ...

Motor

About 130 models at DigiKey.fr. 

Lego

Lego has a nice collection of motors:

• M fast but not powerful (15€)
• X well suited to propulse a car (25€)
• XL slow and too powerful? (20€)
• Servo Moteur quart de tour a gauche, quart de tour a droite (30€)
• Finally the pack (32€) piles, inter, lamp and a motor, but which one?
• Battery box for 6 AA (13€)

Well, might be easy ... too easy? Will it be adapted to the power control shield on the Nucleo??

For the record Lego has also a pneumatic kit (80€).

Starter kits

Complete car or robots

• Impressive kit at just 70€: Elegoo Kit Smart Robot Voiture Car V1.0 avec Tutoriel en Anglais Arduino UNO Project avec Des Lecteurs à Quatre Roues Motrices, UNO R3, Line-cruising Module, Capteur à Ultrasons, Bluetooth Module, Télécommande, ect 
• Robots: https://www.digikey.fr/products/fr/maker-diy-educational/robotics-kits/942

Kits look really nice, but you assemble and then what. Puzzles are not my kind of fun. A custom, original and risky robot will be better.

Basic components

• Breadboard kit: Elegoo at Amazon and same at eBay.
• Looks like AliExpress has some cheap breadboards and components. (shipping might be slower so.)
• "dupont" cable at eBay
• breadboard "platine d'essai" at eBay 
• Simple alim for when there is no dedicated laboratory alim
• Resistors at eBay

February summary - 2017-02

02 February

Techno

• Useful tools
  
  • https://html-cleaner.com/ Online html cleaner and editor. (Not OSS)
  • Prez with reveal.js http://rmarkdown.rstudio.com/revealjs_presentation_format.html
  • Now can print Gant Charts https://app.agantty.com/
• SnowCamp 2017!
• Security
  
  • https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/02/5-must-see-security-sessions-at-Google-Cloud-Next-17.html #TodoPerso
  • No Firewall No problem. Google protect the endpoint, not the perimeter ! https://threatpost.com/no-firewalls-no-problem-for-google/123748/
  • Another instance of detrimental proxy https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=694593
    
    • from https://www.feistyduck.com/bulletproof-tls-newsletter/issue_25_sha1_is_broken.html
• NTP Time protocol
  
  • Open source politics (sad) "A rift in the NTP world" https://lwn.net/Articles/713901/
  • Funny: the clock drift due to Temperature https://blog.ntpsec.org/2017/02/01/heat-it-up.html
• API
  
  • https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/02/Google-Cloud-Endpoints-now-GA-a-fast-scalable-API-gateway.html
  • Also discovered APIMan (RedHat) http://www.APIMan.io/
• P2P
  
  • Beaker is an experimental browser with builtin hosting and peer-to-peer Web protocols https://BeakerBrowser.com/
  • Powerful data sharing from your desktop. https://DATproject.org/ Dat is the secure and distributed package manager for data. Use the desktop app, command line tool, and javascript library.
• Information-Centric Networking (ICN) or Content-Centric Networking (CCN) in 5G
  
  • http://blogs.cisco.com/sp/cisco-announces-important-steps-toward-adoption-of-information-centric-networking
  • Associated OpenSource project https://wiki.fd.io/view/Cicn
  • ICN might be a superset of Named Data Networking https://named-data.net/project/faq/#What_is_Information-Centric_Networking_ICN
    
    "ICN represents a broad research direction of content/information/data centric approach to network architecture. NDN is a specific architecture design under the broad ICN umbrella."
• AI
  
  • Your portrait in the style of known painters style https://DeepArt.io/
  • ?? security https://DeepForger.com/

Politic

• Education decodage "La fabrique du consentement (Chomsky)" https://blog.mondediplo.net/2017-02-22-Charlot-ministre-de-la-verite 

Music

• "Jules's dream", salle Stekel, 2017-02-14.
  
  Le melange harpe, piano, cuivre percu rend une texture, un grain intéressant. Le passage rapide avec le tambourin est très efficace.
  • Trombone: Denis Leloup
  • Tuba: Francois Thuillier
  • Percussions: Isabelle Roche
  • Percussion: Sebastien Le Guenanff
  • Basse: Olivier Destephany
  • Harpe: Melanie Virot
  • Piano: Daniela Mizzi
• Emel Mathlouthi (via Paste Magazine)