Open Source NASA JPL mars rover
Having a little bit of an internet wander over lunch, whilst at a customer site in London, I stumbled over this great resource. Obviously, it raised an eyebrow for me as it's the next step up from Critter-bot :-D ( I did say that I would wander off on the scope, didn't I...well, I'll finish the basic version first before venturing onto this project, I promise ) So checkout the interactive web page here that allows you to "drive" a virtual rover around: https://opensourcerover.jpl.nasa.gov/ Then, select the 2nd [O] dot on the right-hand side and you'll see it switch from the official Rover to the one you can build! Select the 3rd [O] dot to get to the instructions..... Well, that'll just take you to the Github repo here: https://github.com/nasa-jpl/open-source-rover The really good thing about this is that they have decided to use a Raspberry Pi as the "brain". Something we all have knocking around. It looks like the motors ...