Motors and controllers and a breadboard

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Some progress on the hardware front.

The chassis really needs to be wider but I have a limited selection of Legos. I still don't have any motors or any way to control them but it's far enough along that I can try manually taking some images with the webcam and …

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Test how long the PowerGen battery can run MaLPi on a single charge.

I ran an endurance test with MaLPi, running the Pi, the webcam and a shell script that logged uptime every ten seconds and the motion program (/usr/bin/motion) in an attempt to detect changes in the …

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