the-little-rover-that-could

A robot that has ultra sonic sweep scanner, that passes it to a middleware nodeJS server that then gives the data to the driver. The driver is wireless using a low powered transceiver.

Controlled by your computer or any smart phone with just a few clicks or taps.

Arduino Uno, Motor Shield, Xbee

The Arduino runs a robot with servo sweeping in front for range to object readings, sending the data back to the control server, which then holds the data for the user request. The rover can be driven from a computer web browser, any graphical browser phone or tablet.

The semi-autonomous Rover code, prevents collisions in the frontal Arc even when command override codes are set to the Rover. The data in the 35 to 135 degree ARC is represented in a graphical interface very similar to a Radar or Sonar interface.

Education uses include basic Cosine law for draw, programming and systems integration. The enter system can be run on a students computer with the hardware for under 100 dollars.

To Do List

• Video Introduction Expect April 19th, 2014 (done)
• Photo serial of robot assembly (in progress, animated gif)
• Systems flow diagram (in progress)
• Code review and descriptions (May 2014)
• Code installers (Mid May 2014)
• Simulator mode for those that do not have robots (in Progress late May 2014)
• Slide show for future presentations
• Error handling not so good when Serial is not present needs further investigation
• Back ground colour flash for when an some object is detected within the min ranges of the robot.
• Resize to mobile device browsers it sort of overlaps the current controls
• Add more Educational links to other rovers, robotics etc
• Create an educators kit
• Create a heart beat between robot and controller
• Test code on other operating systems other than Mac
• Automated test scripts for code changes
• Create a power system using pennies that replaces the AA batteries
• Sensor Suite demo and guide to making more for the student.
• Internationalize the languages used.
• Power level monitoring of the batteries while in use.

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