A small robot rover controlled on HTML5 webpage via WIFI.
- Drag on the right side of the screen with your mouse or your finger to control the movement.
- And drag up and down on the left side to tilt the camera.
- Double tap on the screen to toggle the light.
It has 4 DC motors controlled by the on-board DC motor driver on the PIIO board.
A Raspberry Pi camera mounted on a servo to tilt up and down.
The servo is connected to servo port 1 on the PIIO board.
And also a small LED light that i drive with the adjustable step down regulator and POWER output on the PIIO board.
More info see this: http://www.steelsquid.org/rover-small
And more info on the PIIO board: http://www.steelsquid.org/steelsquid-piio-board
Drive
- Actuators / output devices: DC Motors, Servos
- Control method: Webpage over Wi-Fi
- CPU: Raspberry Pi
- Operating system: Linux
- Programming language: Python, HTML
- Sensors / input devices: video camera
- Target environment: indoor
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://community.robotshop.com/robots/show/small-robot-rover