Project SCOUT: Big Ideas, Real Wheels

Field notes

The project explains rover behavior through three linked layers: a simulated backyard route, a component study, and a control-connection map. Its hardware inventory names a Raspberry Pi, ESP32, RPLIDAR A1M8, camera, ground sensors, bumper inputs, and the original ride-on system. The page distinguishes simulated scenes from physical testing and describes autonomous testing as supervised, making the site useful as a record of the learning and systems-design process even where operation is not verified.