A Midsummer Night’s Blog

Rover Construction

Filed as Geek Stuff, General on November 18, 2009

(11/17/2009)

I’m building a rover as a test platform for our Wi-Fi embedded controller.

Puck's Rover which might soon conquer the earth.

Here is the assembled chassis with four-wheel-drive installed for the little guy.  You can see each tire has an independent motor with control lines in red and yellow. With each tire operating independently, we should have a much greater range of mobility including stationary turns and spins.

The little circuit board I am holding up is our 16-bit Rabbit computer with integrated Wi-Fi.  I will probably use it to serve a web page with controls for the device.  (Here is a link to the RCM5600W.)

My next work project is putting together a blog on this project so at some point in the near future I will post a link to it.  The blog will be written informally with an engineering focus but hopefully in plain enough language that a non-engineer can follow it.

As a professional computer engineer, I cannot confirm or deny that this project is the creation of a robot overlord. He may or may not be designed to dominate humankind in an empire ruled by sentient machines drinking large amounts of coffee.