Multi-year adventure of building JRover from scratch, as told by its creator, Jesse Brockmann, on the SparkFun blog:
Story of a SparkFun AVC Rover
I first started working on my SparkFun AVC rover back in 2011, but I didn’t have a finished rover until 2014. I first heard about the competition on the SparkFun site and thought AVC would be a great challenge – even then I thought self-driving cars would become mainstream. I hope I can provide some useful information for those of you working on or considering making a rover.
My latest rover uses the following components:
- Traxxas Slash 4×4 Platinum LCG Truck
- Anaconda street tires
- Traxxas RPM sensor
- RC4WD 35-turn brushed motor
- Castle ESC
- 3S 5400mah LiPo
- Teensy 3.5
- 2GB+ micro SD card
- BNO-055 IMU
- Headers
- Various jumper wires
- Tactile Buttons
- Custom JRover Baseboard and Button Board
- Digole 2” LCD display
- Airplane RC transmitter and receiver with PPM output
- USB battery bank