This project, is essentialy one which allows you to control a motorized robotic car through the internet.
Who wouldnt want a creepy little robotic car to be placed in your respective hourse where you can walk around and have a "not-zoom" converation with anyone when you are not in at the moment
Inspired from https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/rossatkin/smartipresence-cardboard-telepresence-robot
The project essentially plays off a
- Raspberry Pi 4
- Motor L298 Motor Driver
- Raspberry OS
- Mobile Phone (a space, for the moment)
- Replit account (for a quick hosting server environment) for the mobile based remote
The core components of this, are going to be
- The remote control app / web
At v1, we would start with just the navigation controls (left, right, etc), with the video.
MVP would not include the video off hand (we would use a Zoom like control to view
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The web server. The intructions fired from the remote would be routed through the web server onto an internet enabled Raspberry Pi (RPi 4 Model B). The server enviroment I chose to use to kick-start is replit, due to it low cost to get started, and flexible / free plans
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Finally, the client bot. Which would essneitlally just read off instructions off the server and exeute without any intellegance of its own to start with. For the video server, I would explore Twilios API's as that seems to be something that can pull off the job we are trying to achieve.