hi teetee. First thanks for your interest, helps drives things along to know others are interested :) Yes, was thinking also the other day about what can come out of all this. I reckon in its current form its something that maybe most would assume too difficult to follow, but great info for the tech...
managed to settle down and get a good bit of progress with the project tonite! Thinking about how to deploy the system easily, I put together a useful utility. It's a small PC application that connects to the Pi via SSH/Shell connection, over the network. So far I added a bunch of buttons that are a...
Got the robot fully under control of the Raspberry Pi over the weekend. Arduino's USB is plugged into the Raspberry Pi, and so the Raspi makes use of the virtual serial over that. I started with the simpler method of setting up the port with the STTY command and trying to simply send the command to ...
The servo controller got strapped onto the robot yesterday and wired in tidily, also mounted the raspberry pi on the top. The original arm I did for the pi camera, I found to be just too heavy to cope with. Basically when the robot moved forward a step, it was enough to put the servo arm into heavil...
cheers bro! The update is good, right now its still running :) Its reached 210 thousand movements since I started the test, so I think the problem was resolved with the changes I made last night, hurray! awesome, now I can think about mounting this servo board onto the robot tonight and readying the...
looking good for another soak test tonight, injected some code in the msp430's to guard against getting locked in any state except idle and ready :) got it running on an accelerated test now, 4 times as many ( but smaller) alterations to the servo positions, driven by arduino. Finger crossed its sti...
congrats mate that is one awesome grow!!!! cant believe the state of the roots. or the rest of it either actually!! top rated dude, just shows what proper greenfingers can do even without super hi tech growing mediums. gonna have to re-read your blog before I set out on my timelapse grow methinks, I...
copious amounts of smoke my friend, then I can sit down and concentrate deep. probably most prefer not thinking too hard once they had a smoke but I reckon I do my best work after a little mind opening. I guesse I wouldn't be alone really, there quite a few people we can think of who did their best ...
good news to report peeps, another step closer! the weekend task was to get the robot arm servo's up and running, and now they are. took an evening or two with a soldering iron and then fiddling around with the coding but now its up and running - im well chuffed :) Never made a slave device before, ...