It’s real! I love being able to print ideas into existence. Amazon helped too.
The “armed tank” thing has been making me giggle all day!
And it rolls! A little bumpy, as expected, and very slow so far. But it’s past its preliminary tests and we’re once again ready to make things complicated!
I’ve got ROS 2 all set up on the bots Raspberry Pi & I’m ready to go, apparently. It’s like relying on Google maps in a new city: I’m not exactly navigating, but I picked the destination! I have studied up on the locals, but I intend to interact with them as little as possible.
In fact, I just learned about ROSclaw. I still have to look closer, but it might be the case that the technical knowledge you needed this month is a fraction of what you needed last month.
That compression of knowledge turns mammals into magicians. From my mind, I have manifested and animated physical form. I’m now working on endowing it with autonomous ability… The ability to clean my floor.
We’ve got forward movement.
We’ve got angular twist.
And we’ve now got the correct buttons triggering forward motion and angular twist.
Next, we’re going to fire up ROS and try out SLAM mapping using the Oak-D depth camera. And I should definitely quadruple the top speed.
Although, I really need to capture some footage of the bot putting a shoe away or something, even if it’s teleoperated. You know, for the VC slide deck.