Most commonly used external devices with TI-Rover?

[Chhaya, Harshal S.]

 

Hi,

 

What external sensors and devices have you used (or seen used at conferences etc.) with TI-Rover?

 

The ones I have seen most commonly used are:

1. ultrasonic rangers (side-facing for parallel parking, down-facing for detecting the end of the table etc.)
2. external speakers (through a special cable – thanks Karlheinz)
3. external LED (to simulate headlights)

 

Any others I am missing?

 

Thanks,

- Harshal

 

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Harshal S. Chhaya, Distinguished Member of Technical Staff (Emeritus)

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Manager, Robotics outreach

TI robotic vehicle for education: http://education.ti.com/rover

 

 

[Marian Prince]

Harshal, 

I attached a plastic straw to a servo and had the kids deliver a ring to a target. 

Marian

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[HMH]

Hi Harshal,

Just for completeness, not sure that counts :-) :

In my implementation of using the Tello drone with the TI Innovator system, I'm using a ESP8266 microcontroller connected to the ('inofficial') UART port of the TI-Hub. The ESP8266 transmits the drone commands to the Tello drone via its WLAN port. 

 

For those of you who are interested in more details and have confidence in flashing a ESP8266 in Arduino, please visit the T3 Europe Resource Portal: 
https://resources.t3europe.eu/t3europe-home?resource_id=3248&cHash=dcd654ef9b50281324353252d31c6a6d 

 

And for those of you who want to get inspired about what you can do with the TI-Rover and Tello, watch the movie clip here:

https://youtu.be/YJu0bXi--rI

Happy Easter,

Hans-Martin

[HMH]

Oh - there is one more:

A very creative solution about how to make TI-Rover draw perfect circles we saw in one of our workshops back in Oct 2023:

 

Just glue-tape a pen to the rear of the TI-Rover and let the Rover do a 360 Deg turn.

 

Cheers,

HM