Remote Student Vehicle

Using Arduino Project Guidance
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I am helping students with a remote student vehicle project in which a student from a home computer (communicating through the Internet) could control a vehicle in school to go from class to class. We are retrofitting an old Hot Wheels car made for kids so we already have wheels, structure, power, and steering, but we need more information about the communication piece.

Can Arduino do this? If so, how do we get it to connect to the school wifi and how do we program it so that it can be activated over the web?

Thanks for any suggestions you may have. The kids are super excited but need more direction.

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Can Arduino do this?

With the proper accessories, yes. A WiFi shield of some sort is the first thing needed.

how do we program it so that it can be activated over the web?

The Arduino will be a server. Any browser can make GET requests. The Arduino needs to deal with each GET request in an appropriate manner.

One thing you are going to have to deal with is 27 kids trying to make it do different things at the same time.