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Now that the AKROS robot project is complete (not entirely, but I’m happy with its current state), it was time to put it aside and try new things. So, over the last few months, I have been ordering components and waiting for them to arrive. The parts are all finally... [Read More]

I’m finally back after quite a long, but well deserved hiatus from my side projects. Last time, before this long break, I finished up the mechanical parts of the robot, by adding a wireless charging module and by finishing the 3D model of the robot in Fusion 360. Now only... [Read More]

A few weeks ago, I designed a wireless charging module in Fusion 360 to implement the DFRobot 12V/3A wireless charging module on my robot. Over the last two weeks, I finally got to manufacture these parts. This period have been the most I’ve visited my workplace in almost a year.... [Read More]

2021 has been a personal highlight for me as I stuck with one side-project throughout the year instead of scuttling between multiple projects. Unlike in 2020, where I was just experimenting with rapid prototyping tools and ROS packages, 2021 started with a plan - to build an autonomous ROS robot... [Read More]

Happy new year! The last week of 2021 was supposed to be a week off in Italy, but it ended up being cancelled, so I decided to spend some time working on the robot. Before I began, I found out the root cause behind the odometry publisher issue. For context,... [Read More]