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rover_control

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Well do you mean the motor controller, the control computer, or the remote control? I’ve got some info on the motor controllers I’m using: https://reboot.love/t/vesc-mods-for-robotics-use/ The control computer is a raspberry pi running python. It looks like I’ve not committed the code in a while, but this repo may be helpful: https://github.com/tlalexander/rover_control Though for the above, I’ve recently found that I can use velocity control on the VESC, which is easier than doing velocity control on the Pi as I had done in that repo. For the wireless remote control I use, it’s my own design and they’re not for sale or well documented. I’d recommend any wireless controller that you can read in python. The software should be pretty simple now that I’ve switched to velocity control mode. You just need to read a joystick and convert that to
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velocity commands for each VESC. Technically even the VESCs could do that onboard if you wanted to modify the firmware. But if you can drive the VESC from an esp32 that would work too.
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With the Raspberry Pi: I've made a four wheel drive robot called Rover that uses brushless motors and 3d printed planetary gears. It's all CC0 open source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwCkX6bLY3E&t=4s https://github.com/tlalexander/rover_control https://reboot.love/t/rover-and-skittles-cad-design-files-he... https://imgur.com/a/GqXD2Zj I've made a smaller classroom style robot named Skittles that also uses brushless + planetary and is open source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2-zIUY_kww I taught a robotics class using the robot Skittles, and the students did a great job picking up Raspberry Pi. There's a lot of tutorials on the web they found to do their work! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pql6ZbPVog I've made a "fake Philips Hue" light out of a SK6812 RGBW LED strip to go with my existing Philips Hue system. That uses this git
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hub project: https://github.com/diyhue/diyHue I made a humidity controlled chamber for mushroom cultivation: https://github.com/tlalexander/humidity_controller I've made an RTK GPS system using two raspberry pis and two $75 GPS receivers to make a GPS system that so far looks to be accurate to within a few centimeters (when you have clear sky). http://rtkexplorer.com/how-to/posts-getting-started/ I replaced our dodgy bluetooth audio sink on our stereo with an Airplay node using this software: https://github.com/mikebrady/shairport-sync I've added a wireless front end to some of my 3D printers using Octoprint: https://octoprint.org/ What else? Well I just keep going. Professionally I'm a robotics prototyping engineer and I cannot tell you how much joy I get from the Pi and the things I can make with it. :)
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