My first robot using Rover5 - roverbot!
Objective: Night timeshift photography... Analyzing plants, photo capturing for 3D modeling.. WIP
Components used:
- Rover5 Chassis - 4 Motors, 4 Encoders feedback.
- Rover5 Track wheels
- 6 x Sony rechargeable AA 2200mAh batteries.
- Dagu 4 Channel DC Motor Controller with Encoder Support
- Pan and Tilt kit with 2 Servo9G Motors
- UltraSonic Distance Sensor (HC-SR04)
- Raspberry Pi B+
- 802.11n USB Wifi Dongle Adapter
- Hewlett Packard Power pack 5v, 2A - 7500mAh (F4C88A)
- DVK512 - Raspberry Pi Model B+ Expansion/Evaluation Board, features various interfaces
- - for LED's, Buttons, RTC
- 5MP NoIR Camera for Raspberry Pi
- Jumper Wires, mini Bread board & Custom plastic plate cover for Chassis
Programming: c pthreads, on raspbian
This is my first robot, built using above mentioned components, in short Rover5 muscles, Raspberry Pi B+ Heart and C Brain!.
At present its just a obstacle avoiding with video streaming - Autonomous and Manual.
Under manual Rover Speed, Directions And Pan, Tilt controlled by remote terminal (pigpio libs & ncurses dashboard)
using Rpi_Cam For Video streaming, More info: http://elinux.org/RPi-Cam-Web-Interface
I will be uploading source code, videos and photos very soon ...
Working on: understanding encoder feedback & customizing circuit for Raspberry pi,
Let me know if any one needs more information, Suggestion and Critics most welcome.
Thanks
Mahesh S Rao ([email protected])
@home on weekends
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://community.robotshop.com/robots/show/roverbot-rover5-chassis-raspberry-pi-b-c-programming-with-pthread-pigpio-libs
