OpenBot
OpenBot leverages smartphones as brains for low-cost robots. We have designed a small electric vehicle that costs about $50 and serves as a robot body. Our software stack for Android smartphones supports advanced robotics workloads such as person following and real-time autonomous navigation. (by isl-org)
OpenMower
Let's upgrade cheap off-the-shelf robotic mowers to modern, smart RTK GPS based lawn mowing robots! (by ClemensElflein)
| OpenBot | OpenMower | |
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| 2 | 21 | |
| 2,702 | 4,257 | |
| 1.5% | - | |
| 5.6 | 7.1 | |
| 6 days ago | 9 days ago | |
| Swift | C | |
| MIT License | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
OpenBot
Posts with mentions or reviews of OpenBot.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-06-11.
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Has anyone had luck turning an Android smartphone into a non-remote-control in-situ on-board autonomous sensing, computing and control element for a mobile robot?
Perhaps this is what you're looking for? https://www.openbot.org/
- New Release of the OpenBot 0.5 – Turning Smartphones into Robots
OpenMower
Posts with mentions or reviews of OpenMower.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-08-30.
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Lawn larger than recommended: can it do multiple parts?
I appreciate you trying to help, but my question was, "is the 3000 SQ meters just the max the battery can handle, or a software limitation". If one is ok with waiting a long time for it to cycle back to the beginning again, and just mowing the max amount every time, then the navimow seems reasonable. I wouldn't care if it would take a month to get back to the beginning, it still means it gets mowed once every month, which is fine for my use case. Spending 16k on a mower is not. It was buy mower with this capability or building an openmoweropenmower that could do so.
- Great idea and natural integration with OpenMower project
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Fully Charged: Electric Lawn Mowers with solar panels!
This is coming from someone that wishes that someone would sell a kit or publish plans with a list of parts needed and printable to make a robot mower that can scale up for yards larger than 2 acres. Best thing I've found so far is this: https://github.com/ClemensElflein/OpenMower
- Remotely Controlled Lawn Tractor
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How long can a smart house live without its owner?
You get a robot mower specifically so you don't have to go outside. Plus, it's a freaking robot that mows your lawn!!! How cool is that! That factor alone means someone whose primary hobby is collecting IoT things has to get one... or two. Plus maybe another open source OpenMower tinkering platform mower. That's the mentality of an IoT hoarder.
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Newest addition to robotic helpers collection. This time outdoor one. More in the comments.
Check this out. https://github.com/ClemensElflein/OpenMower
- GPS tracker without subscriptions?
- Reverse Engineering Mower Controller Protocol
- I found this "OpenMower" project to improve existing robotic mowers
- ClemensElflein/OpenMower: Let's upgrade robotic mowers to smart RTK GPS
What are some alternatives?
When comparing OpenBot and OpenMower you can also consider the following projects:
UsbSerial - Usb serial controller for Android
gobot - Golang framework for robotics, drones, and the Internet of Things (IoT)
hexapod-irl - A "fork" of Bare-Minimum Hexapod Robot Simulator 2 modified to be able to control a real physical hexapod robot.
LandLord - Opensource firmware for Worx robotic mower model Landroid WG79X.XX
yarp - YARP - Yet Another Robot Platform
webots_ros2 - Webots ROS 2 packages
android-bluetooth-serial - A library for Android to simplify basic serial communication over Bluetooth, for example when communicating with Arduinos.
xESC - The xESC is an easy to use, low cost electronic speed controller (ESC) design for sensored brushless DC (BLDC) motors.
DynamixelSDK - ROBOTIS Dynamixel SDK (Protocol1.0/2.0)
webots - Webots Robot Simulator
sybot - Rust library for coordinating components, defining robotic systems and their communication