Yard Rover (Robotics)This project has evolved from a simple solar powered platform for running a camera and a web based dashboard running on my custom CMS. It uses a Raspberry Pi and the gphoto2 library to control an attached Canon camera. It is controlled remotely from a computer. The compact flash eventually corrupted after too many low power events during winter. The second iteration adds wheelchair motors, a bigger battery, and 3x as much solar. GPS was not reliable enough for navigation around cars and flower beds, so I stopped short and am pivoting to Ardupilot with the Raspberry Pi as a companion computer. |
