Posted: Mar 08, 2020 5:22 am
I'm aiming much smaller and a lot less techy.
It doesn't need to be big or beefy coz of being mowing continuously on a fairly small area. More breadbox than wheelchair.
Also have quite a small lawn and will use detection of buried wires to constrain it from wandering off into the untamed wilds of the rest of our block. Bumpers and ultrasonic detectors for navigation. Physical barriers like existing walls and garden edging will stop it wandering far anyway.
Not planning on having it go home and charge itself, figure it shouldn't be too hard to find a bright red box on the lawn and charge it occasionally. Step 2 would be adding a bit of on-board solar charging.
Ardumower uses a blade off a box-cutter type knife thingy. That seems a bit of a joke so I'm planning on uppening that a bit. More robust, less razerblade cutty seems more practical.
It doesn't need to be big or beefy coz of being mowing continuously on a fairly small area. More breadbox than wheelchair.
Also have quite a small lawn and will use detection of buried wires to constrain it from wandering off into the untamed wilds of the rest of our block. Bumpers and ultrasonic detectors for navigation. Physical barriers like existing walls and garden edging will stop it wandering far anyway.
Not planning on having it go home and charge itself, figure it shouldn't be too hard to find a bright red box on the lawn and charge it occasionally. Step 2 would be adding a bit of on-board solar charging.
Ardumower uses a blade off a box-cutter type knife thingy. That seems a bit of a joke so I'm planning on uppening that a bit. More robust, less razerblade cutty seems more practical.