{"id":1092,"date":"2009-11-18T02:03:21","date_gmt":"2009-11-18T01:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_puck\/?p=1092"},"modified":"2009-11-18T04:19:40","modified_gmt":"2009-11-18T03:19:40","slug":"rover-construction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_puck\/2009\/11\/rover-construction\/","title":{"rendered":"Rover Construction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>(11\/17\/2009)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m building a rover as a test platform for our Wi-Fi embedded controller.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1093\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_puck\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/pucks_rover.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1093\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1093\" title=\"pucks_rover\" src=\"http:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_puck\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/pucks_rover.jpg\" alt=\"Pucks Rover\" width=\"500\" height=\"436\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_puck\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/pucks_rover.jpg 512w, https:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_puck\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/pucks_rover-300x261.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1093\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Puck&#39;s Rover which might soon conquer the earth.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Here is the assembled chassis with four-wheel-drive installed for the little guy.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n<p>The little circuit board I am holding up is our 16-bit Rabbit computer with integrated Wi-Fi.\u00a0 I will probably use it to serve a web page with controls for the device.\u00a0 (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rabbit.com\/products\/rcm5600w\/\">Here is a link to the RCM5600W.<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>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.\u00a0 The blog will be written informally with an engineering focus but hopefully in plain enough language that a non-engineer can follow it.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(11\/17\/2009) I&#8217;m building a rover as a test platform for our Wi-Fi embedded controller. Here is the assembled chassis with four-wheel-drive installed for the little guy.\u00a0 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_puck\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1092"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_puck\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_puck\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_puck\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_puck\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1092"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_puck\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1104,"href":"https:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_puck\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1092\/revisions\/1104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_puck\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_puck\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_puck\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}