90 ton 1/14 metal excavator scratch build w/embedded PC

[SteinHDan]

I am using a Raspberry Pi 2 model B as the embedded PC for this project.

The Raspberry Pi will control:
- The ESCs (speed controllers) for the seven gear motors via USB serial ports
- Individual lights via GPIO pins
- Engine sound via the 3.5mm audio jack
- Remote control via a USB wireless gamepad
- FPV from the CAB with the Raspberry Pi Camera
- Configuration, reprogramming and telemetry via a USB WiFi.

Amazon links:
- Raspberry Pi 2 Model B - 1GB RAM - 900MHz Quad-Core CPU
- Raspberry PI 5MP Camera Board Module





I'm using a 4GB SD memory card I had laying around. Looks very much like this one:
- Kingston 4GB microSDHC Class 10


I downloaded the Raspbian (Debian) image on my computer from here:
- http://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/
and installed it on the SD card as described on that download page.

Then I connected it to a monitor, mouse and keyboard and powered it up. In the setup menu, I selected:
- Terminal only (no graphical GUI)
- Enable camera
- Enable ssh
- Disable serial port console

This completes the setup and the Raspberry is now running with the operating system I want.