Wireless, remote control Mars Rover.....with a Claw!!. Rover is based on the Mars rover (4 motors with continuous tracks). The rover was built from scratch, and is controlled via a node.js backend. The goal was to have a mobile first web app which could control several aspects of the rover (motor movement, claw, camera pan tilt bracket) over wifi.
Clone the repository:
$ git clone git@github.com:snozza/project-noderover.git
Change into the directory and npm install the modules:
$ cd project-noderover
$ npm install
Run the tests:
$ mocha
Start the node server and visit http://localhost:3000/
$ node server.js
Please note that the app is written for the Arduino Uno combined with a RN-XV Wifly Module, Wireless SD Shield, and a 4 motor controller shield. The code will likely need to be modified to accomodate other products.
You will also need to sign up for a Twitter Dev account in order to use the Twitter control functionality. Add a file called config.js to the root of /node_modules/twit and add it to your .gitignore file. Then add the following (replaced with your details):
module.exports = {
consumer_key: '...'
, consumer_secret: '...'
, access_token: '...'
, access_token_secret: '...'
}