Show HN: Live control a robot running around my house (opens in new tab)

haha, that was I, hey what could possibly go wrong?

Crazy. Are you going to write something about how you built it?

And far less creepy looking than the Chicken if I do say so..

Ah, taking note. Thanks

thanks dude! we put a lot of work into it

thanks for the heads up!

Raspberry Pi that runs the python program that sends video to the webserver using ffmpeg. Adafruit Motor HAT to connect the motors to the pi. Android phone is strapped to robot that runs a custom android app that receives chats from the website and also says them out loud using the Android API for text-to-speech. Everything sits on top of a 3d printed chassis. Cheap logitech webcam. Web app is a node server, socketio, ec2.

Yes! here's a video that will go over the details: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LI59iFtDspA

The main parts are a RaspberryPi, some Adafruit stuff, and a motor from pololu. Also, I put all the parts in a package that you can get here: http://runmyrobot.com/kit

thanks bro! we appreciate the feedback