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“Isn’t it neat to have a Raspberry Pi robot with a camera onboard? For this project, I created a Raspberry Pi rover robot that can be controlled using a smartphone with video streaming! Sounds interesting? Here’s how. A rover is basically a remote controlled vehicle used to access areas that are inaccessible by humans. NASA’s Curiosity is a well-known rover robot. I decided to build my own simple rover using a Raspberry Pi board and a web camera. The USB webcam acts as the controller’s eyes which is typical of rovers (they are not autonomous). We can then control the movements of the robot using buttons on a locally hosted web page where the same video stream from the camera is embedded. I made the robot control more secure by making the RPi a WiFi access point. This means only users that know the WiFi ID and password of the robot can view the video stream and control it.”

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