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This week, I received some of the goodies I mentioned in the last update. One of them (I’ll talk about the other later) was the Sparkfun Qwiic ToF Imager based on the VL53L5CX sensor by STMicroelectronics. It is a 8x8 time-of-flight (ToF) sensor (64 pixels), with a field-of-view of 45... [Read More]

I spent some more time with the micro_ros_arduino examples throughout this week. I wanted to fix some of the issues from last week and also explore the use of UDP over Ethernet, with a Teensy 4.1 and an Arduino Portenta H7 Lite Connected. I started off by re-running some of... [Read More]

This weekend, I worked on some more micro-ROS examples. This was much more fun than last time because I had a working Arduino environment and a tried and tested workflow for building and testing micro-ROS applications. By this time, I also had an extensive list of resources (bookmarks/notes) to go... [Read More]

This week I experimented with the Arduino Portenta H7, the Arduino Nano RP2040 Connect, and the RPi Pico board, and tried micro-ROS examples with ROS2 Galactic. My goal was to implement a structured workflow for building and testing micro-ROS applications using these devices on Windows 10. Unfortunately, this proved to... [Read More]

I finally got some extra time thanks to a long weekend, so I decided to bring the AKROS robot out of its box and make some upgrades. Last week, I received two Cytron MDD3A dual motor drivers which are compatible with the Teensy 4.1 Expansion board as I wanted. My... [Read More]