Level 5

This week, I finally attached my new Intel Realsense T265 tracking camera to my robot platform. Of course, I need to make space for this, so I naturally redesigned the entire frame. Fortunately, this also gave me the opportunity to fix some of my earlier errors. The previous platform, looks... [Read More]

Since my last update, I haven’t really worked on the ESP32 robot other than just driving it around my room. However, I’ve been thinking and sketching different ideas for the eventual PCB and 3D printed chassis. I wanted the robot to be 4WD, but also low cost, and compact. For... [Read More]

Ever since I read this article about microROS (ROS2 for microcontrollers) and ESP32, I’ve been wanting to implement it myself but I never really got the time. This was because I was working on the DepthAI + OAKD project. But I did manage to buy some components in the meantime... [Read More]

Last weekend, I really got playing with Foxglove Studio - a really cool app to visualize ROS topics/messages from a remote desktop. It works on Windows, which is a real plus because I dont have to go through the process of launching ROS from windows, then setting environment variables to... [Read More]

This week, I accomplished quite a few things. First, I installed a dev tool called Foxglove on my Windows laptop. This tool is essentially Rviz (+ some additional features) for Windows and connects remotely to a ROS machine. This saved me a lot of time, since I dont need to... [Read More]