We designed this kit with a dual purpose: to help you learn robotics engineering from the ground up, and then push the boundaries once you’ve mastered the skills. Built on ArduPilot, Raspberry Pi, and Python-controlled autonomy, this kit gives you the power to build whatever the heck you want — once you’ve got the fundamentals down.
Every single item required to build this rover is included with your kit. All the parts are compatible and have been quality controlled, allowing you to save tons of time and get to the fun stuff much faster!
Additionally, we buy in bulk. So it costs us way less to get the parts compared to someone building a single rover. Essentially, the price of this kit is the same, or a little cheaper, than if you were to find all the 40+ parts on your own.
You’re not just getting hardware with this rover. It also comes with our 5+ hour “How To Build A Smart Rover” course that you will own for life. This rover is not like ordering parts from Amazon and having to figure out what to do with the parts on your own.
This rover is at the core of our Drone Dojo engineering platform. All of the courses we offer use this exact rover. So if you have interest in expanding your robotics engineering skills into rover delivery, 4G control for limitless range, RTK GPS for inch level precision, precision parking computer vision, autonomous python control, etc, you’ll be using the perfect rover to follow along with what we teach.
We are targeting tech hackers like yourself who want access to an affordable yet highly capable programmable rover, so we can charge WAY less than our competitors…
$1,000
$899!
…Which is insanely valuable all on your own. Good luck trying to find what parts you need to build a rover when you don’t even know what parts you need, let alone if the various parts are compatible…
This course shows you step by step how to put your rover together. In addition to that, it walks you through more advanced topics like no-code autonomous missions, python controlled missions using the raspberry pi, and a bunch of other topics. In total, it’s a 5+ hour course. We used to sell this course as a standalone product at $99. Now, you will be getting it for free with your drone.
We’re also offering with this rover our custom Drone Dojo Raspberry Pi image you can flash to your Raspberry Pi. What’s special about it? Firstly, you get to avoid what is called “dependency hell”, where all of the software and programs are already pre-installed on this image. Secondly, it comes pre-loaded with a ton of example python scripts you can use to control your rover. Thirdly, we made a custom command you can use to stream video from your rover to your computer. This is easily saving you months of time alone if you’ve never done any of this before.
So we already established we are pre-flashing the firmware for your pixhawk and Raspberry Pi. If you’re not aware, there are hundreds of parameters that change the functionality of your Rover. These are configurable in a ground control station like MissionPlanner, but how the heck do you know which parameters you need to change/alter?
We have vetted 20+ parameters that we tested on our rover, and you will be able to use our parameter file and simply upload it to your pixhawk. Don’t worry, we’ll show you how to do this in the course. This includes the PID values that produces smooth driving while your rover is in autonomous drive modes. Without these PIDs, you’d have to manually tune these on your own (which can be a painful process.. it took me an entire day to accomplish this the first time)
While the courses are a huge aid in your knowledge onboarding, we know that you may still have questions that are unique to your situation.
Or perhaps, you’d like some guidance on a pet project you’re working on after you’ve completed our Blue Belt curriculum.
For this reason, we created the Drone Dojo Forum, which is exclusive to Blue Belt members. Here, you can ask any technical question that is hanging you up, and an expert will be in touch with you.
Experts can save you months.. or even years. How valuable is your time?
Your Raspberry Pi needs a 5V 3A power supply powered through USB-C in order to operate. The standard power module that takes power from the LiPo battery and powers the PixHawk doesn’t have this UBEC for the Pi, so you have to manually solder a UBEC onto the power module, then solder on USB-C cable to the UBEC.
You can see, this can be a pain.
Rover kit purchasers will get this part PRE-SOLDERED and customized for your Pi build! So for you, it is just another plug and play part. For others…. a hair pulling out event.
Total Value: $2,545.00
