Rover with Raspberry Pi
Table of Contents
A rover that can drive around and has a movable mounted camera.
Hardware #
Transportation:
- Dagu Rover 5 Chassis
- Dagu Tilt & Swivel with 2 servos
Logic:
- Raspberry Pi B Revision 2 (512MB RAM)
- Adafruit 16 channel 12 bit PWM servo controller
- Dagu Motor Controller
Sensors:
- Raspberry Pi Camera
Software #
- Raspbian
- Raspberry Pi, Python Interfaces
- Raspberry Pi GPIO (RPi.GPIO) Python Module
- smbus
- Adafruit I2C driver
- Adafruit 16 Channel PWM driver
- My custom Dagu rover controller… controller
Status #
Working so far:
- Controlling wheels independently
- Direction
- Speed (via PWM)
- Controlling Tilt & Swivel Servos
- Capturing photos and video with the Raspberry Pi camera
- Streaming video via VLC (RTSP, H264)