Posted: Mar 10, 2020 7:52 pm
I’m seriously considering mounting a small wifi/bluetooth cam and feeding it to the laptop for now. A complete separate feed from the control modules, and cheap. With a visual feedback like that, slow speed by tweaking the PWM mapping/gearing and more or less straight line cuts ought to be manageable. A buried guide wire path is something I’m thinking about pretty hard. A spiral coil spaced just so would be easy enough to detect and follow. That wire system could also define the stop/turn point for a romba type mower.
Like I keep sayin’, this is a toy project that will turn into a tool if I can make everything work. Just testing things is more than 3 weeks away. I have no drive motors, the master/slave hardware is just barely started and a thousand things stand in the way.
Like I keep sayin’, this is a toy project that will turn into a tool if I can make everything work. Just testing things is more than 3 weeks away. I have no drive motors, the master/slave hardware is just barely started and a thousand things stand in the way.