History2001

the Unimog project started october 2001 when I bought this RC vehicle

I was thinking about ways to improve the tethered WebTruck for a long time... I wanted to build a vehicle capable of auto-navigation. This helps to prevent accidents when the connection to the driver is too slow to react on a emergency situations.

I started to play around with PIC processors late 2001 and made big steps ahead in using this technology till Xmas 2001.

Early 2002 I wrote the software for Unimog, the software for the unimog server, the webserver connecting between the client browser and the unimog server, and the Java applet to control unimog. (Schema)

The whole stuff went online for the first time around april 2002.

• UnimogBoards describes the circuits used

• JalPages links to the software written for Unimog

• hardware used for the wireless video link

• go drive with this interface supports both online and offline mode

• video clip (4MB) Unimog drives

Changes 2004

Decided to move the electronics to a better platform.

See a some pictures of the details while extracting circuits

Switchboard Schematic

Motherboard Schematic

Moguni follow up project

History2002

Anonymous User (Dec 3, 2004 7:02 pm; Comment #1)

We have watched this UniMoG^x project from the beginning. It has been a great achievement. So much so that I still want the truck when it is decomissioned 2004. We stumbled across this site looking for a full sized operational UniMoG^x to be used in the United States of America. We were very impressed with the remote use technology linking equipment across the world to users across the world wide web. We can see alot of uses for this technology. Not long after we first found this site one of the forst X prize competions was held in the western deserts for a vehicle capable of navigating without a human driver across the desert plains. As far as we know this prize is still up for grabs. Maybe someday the little UniMoG^x "Moguni" will be a part of the Million dollar club in the technology X games. ~JC

PathFinder^x (Dec 3, 2004 7:05 pm; Comment #2)

The Anonymous User (Dec 3, 2004 7:02 pm; Comment #1) from above who forgot to login first.

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