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The JPL Open Source Rover is an open source, build it yourself, scaled down version of the 6 wheel rover design that JPL uses to explore the surface of Mars. The Open Source Rover is designed almost entirely out of consumer off the shelf (COTS) parts. This project is intended to be a teaching and learning experience for those who want to get involved in mechanical engineering, software, electronics, or robotics. JPL is always looking to inspire the next generation of scientists, engineers, and roboticists to help us explore and learn about our solar system (and beyond!). We release the plans for this rover as a way to try and give budding enthusiasts a fun robotics project that will help teach them and get them involved in robotics sooner and at a lower cost. ...

A distributed network of sensors with a central data store, to record environmental data. Project goals include: * to serve as a teaching outlet for: ** sensor programming ** distributed data collecting ** web APIs ** database ** web UI for numerical data ** graphing data sensibly It also gives me some infotainment in new (to me) technologies, and as an excuse to scatter ever more Raspberry Pis around my home.