Chapter 9. Building an Arduino Spy Robot

In this last project of the book, we are going to build a small surveillance spy robot based on Arduino. The secret agent will be able to command the robot remotely from a web page and see what the robot is seeing in real time using a camera.

To do this, we will use everything you have learned in this book so far:

  • How to use Wi-Fi with Arduino
  • How to create control interfaces
  • How to use a camera with the Arduino Yun

Let's dive in!

Hardware and software requirements

First let's see what the required components are for this project. The core of the project will of course be the robot itself. For the robot's chassis, you have a wide range of choices available on the market. For this project, I chose a DFRobot MiniQ ...

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