DR Robot + ProtoCam!

[AverageMan]

Hi all

Been working on my Dawn Robotics robot for a while and had it up and running this week - absolutely love this thing, so easy to set up and works great on my Samsung Note 2. Will be doing a full blog post on it soon.

I used a bit of a different layout than the one suggested, which took a bit of thinking but I am happy with the end result. I use a PowerBank and have a micro-USB breakout instead of using the 2-pin USB cable (just because it looks cool really)


(notice the black camera belt protection...I'm addicted to tinkering!)

I also used part of one of those generic camera mounts, with some longer screws, to add like a protection plate to the camera board:



I decided to try my ProtoCam board on the front of it as well, just to see if it would be a viable solution - and it is! Whilst not as flexible as the DR servo mounted camera (this is stuck at one angle), it's another way to do it and gives you prototyping space to add sensors to the front of the robot.



I've done a blog post and video on it here:

http://www.averagemanvsraspberrypi.com/2014/09/a-front-mounted-raspberry-pi-robot.html

Next modification...my own 3D printed wheels...



Cheers,

Rich

[Alan]

Wow Rich, this is very cool. Surely with all this modding you're going to have to change your blog title to 'AboveAverageMan vs Pi' at some point.

I really like your method of adding a Protocam to the robot, I can imagine that that would be great for soldering on a ring of LEDs to provide light for the camera, or to add on sensors.

Also, I really like the upward facing camera mounted on the robot that you show on your Kickstarter page. I was thinking that all you need to do with that, is hang a silver Christmas bauble above it, and then you have the makings of a low cost version of the Dyson 360 eye vision system.

Regards

Alan