Small robot rover

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

AMAZING!

That is amazing! Keep up the great work!

 

 

 

-Gregory Roberts

 Founder of EARL Technologies

earl-tech.com