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Transforming a commercial RC car into a rover

A project log for Earth Explorer in a small parcel

Send a camera equipped robot in a small parcel to mission targets around planet earth

norbert-heinzNorbert Heinz 09/16/2017 at 16:240 Comments

I took a model RC car, a Raspberry Pi, a camera module, a double H bridge, a step down converter and a battery with higher capacity to turn the vehicle into another rover of my RoboSpatium. The conversion was a quick process and now I can do some coding to try a couple of variants I have in mind for transmitting images from the rover to your browser. The first public test run will be on

Sunday, September 17 at 10:00 CEST (UTC+2)


The software variant I am using in this test run transmits still images in intervals of approximately 5 seconds. Become part of my test team by driving around with my rover when it is up and running. Some feedback about your driving experience would be nice.

The rover video:

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