A group of 4th Year MEng students from Heriot Watt University in Edinburgh have created a remote-controlled rugged 4-wheel drive “moon buggy” using two Raspberry Pis at it’s core. The students, Calum Morrison, Neil Comerford and Joshua Walhane have recorded this video (see below) which shows the rover, named “Tiberius”, driving around their campus, both inside and out. It shows the capabilities of the rover including traversing some railways ties and climbing a steep slope as well as the operation of a robot arm. Onboard sensors and a webcam feed back telemetry to an Android-device app which is also used as the remote control. Really worth a look this one!
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