extra mod: robomower + dog poop scooper

[allanlaal]

what about adding a poop scooper to the ardumower for those of us, who own dogs? :)

something like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-40HjfJtOgo

use case

I have a dog, and like most dogs its not trained to shit in a tiny square in the corner of my yard 😮
whilst the lawmower will happily demolish the dried deposits, it still just throws it around that area - which will make some guests squemish

solution

a custom Ardumower chassis with a poop scoop that when mowing:
• will identify poop using a front camera,
• then will stop mowing
• then turn around to face the crap pile with its scooper (which is a higher portion of the chassis than the mower blades):

• then scoop the poop (no checks needed). I think that a robomowed lawn will not need a separate cutter like in the video - the torque of the motors with a sharpened scoop should be enough to grip and cut the grass picked up
• it will go a deposit the poop on a predetermined area. maybe incrementing the location +10cm or similar to avoid running over the deposits :D
• then the Ardumower will resume mowing until it detects the next pile (or a previously half-scooped/failed pile)

[allanlaal]

Q: "why not have 2 bots?
A: both would have to have an accurate coordinate system and a server to add jobs

[flynneva]

maybe support a standard "attachment" connector? that way you could have multiple different attachments that the robot could hook up to?

im thinking like tractor implements

then you could do a pooper-scooper attachment, mower attachment, fertilizer attachment, dethaching attachment, even maybe a raking attachment?

[flynneva]

also it could de-couple the development of the ardumower from the implements. so anyone could develop their own implement for it without adding additional burden to the devs of ardumower