WALL-E

A Wall-Evading rover

Journey building the rover

Demo

demo_1.MOV

demo_2.MOV

Components

• Raspberry Pi 5 - The brain of the rover
• Raspberry Pi Pico - The Motor Controller
• HC-SR04 Ultrasonic Sensor - Measure distance from wall
• Pi Camera Module 3 - Recording (object detection in the future)
• L293D - Motor Driver

Development

# build brain
make brain/build

# run brain
make brain/run

# build and flash the driver software onto the pico
make driver/build

# reboot the driver (mainly for development)
make driver/reboot

# stream the camera output through a TCP server
python3 brain/camera.py