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Controlling the Pi Rover over SSH

September 6, 2015 Pygmalion

Introduction We have seen how to control the Pi Rover over HTTP. However, you may find it a bit of an overkill to install a webserver bundled with PHP just to control the motors. A leaner alternative ... Read More

Controlling the Pi Rover over HTTP

June 27, 2015September 26, 2016 Pygmalion

Introduction Now that we have a programmable robotic platform, built with a Raspberry Pi, a motor controller and a chassis, we’d like to control it remotely, from a PC and later maybe from a mob... Read More

Assign a static IP address to the wireless network interface on Raspberry Pi

March 14, 2015March 23, 2016 Pygmalion

Introduction To easily access our wireless Raspberry Pi projects (like the Pi Rover) over SSH, FTP, HTTP or whatever, we want to assign a static IP to the WLAN interface. In this example the network a... Read More

The HC-SR04 ultrasound range finder on Raspberry Pi

March 7, 2015March 3, 2024 Pygmalion

Introduction The HC-SR04 can be used to measure distance and detect obstacles in robotic projects. However, the reported range is not always accurate, small objects are mostly not detected at all and ... Read More

Pi Rover: Raspberry Pi with a DMC02 motor controller

March 1, 2015March 14, 2015 Pygmalion

Introduction We’ll build a mobile robotic platform with a Raspberry Pi on a chassis. A Pololu DMC02 motor controller board is used to drive the engines. The controller receives serial commands f... Read More

GStreamer on Raspberry Pi – the short answer

February 22, 2015March 14, 2015 Pygmalion

What I needed was a live video stream to provide some sort of an FPV experience. Streaming over VLC or ffmpeg turned out to be suffering from too much of a time lag. Streaming over MJPEG Streamer with... Read More

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