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Rover with Raspberry Pi

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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)