hardware_and_software.md

1. Hardware Requirements:

There are no specific restrictions on what the hardware components should be. You could use them as per your preference and availability. As for my case, I used the following:

1. Chassis: 3D printable chassis

2. Drives:

   • N20 Micro Metal Gear DC Motors with 2 Phase Magnetic Encoders x2

     Motor Specs:

     

   • wheels X2

     Wheel Specs:

     

   • Caster wheel x2

     Caster wheel specs:

     

3. Motor Driver: L298n H-Bridge motor driver x1

4. Micro-controllers:

   • ESP32- CAM x1, and/or
   • ESP32 DEVKIT V1 38 Pins x1

5. Power Supply: 11.1 V 1100 mAh Li-Po battery x1

6. Peripherals-

   • 55 mm M3 nuts and bolts x8
   • Lots of jumper cables (>x20)
   • Electrical cable ties/zip ties x10

After initial setup mine looked like this [PS. That' my cat, Finster. he likes to sleep on the table]

CAD	Real

1. Software Requirements:

Again, no restrictions here. Here are the things that I am currently using:

1. ROS2 Iron running on an Ubuntu 22.04 system
2. ArduinoIDE or
3. PlatformIO setup on a VSCode environment
4. Micro-ROS
5. EdgeImpulse Studio for tinyML pipeline