On 2021-04-10 12:00, Itty wrote:
I have wifi throughout my house.
I need a wifi controlled fourwheel car or tank tread car with a live
camera to drive around my house. Something that if it turns over I can still drive remotely. I need reliability too.
there are a lot of remote controlled devices (like vacuum cleaners) that
can do some of what you want.
as for flipping over, you either build it so it won't, or you make it so
it doesn't matter if it gets flipped around.
if the 4 wheel base can swivel axially around the middle part, it could
run upside down by (literally) flipping over the middle. This might
mean retracting a camera if it's on a boom since you probably do not
want to see everything from "small animal eyeball" height.
it sounds like an interesting robotics project. You might find one of
the various robot kits to be useful.
And of course an RPi to control it.
[To find a charging station, you could have it occasionally beep or use
some other means of tracking location within a small area. in addition
to GPS for a gross estimate, this could be done pretty easily]
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