Rover with Raspberry Pi

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)