I’ve been on holiday this week, and decided to have a staycation and spare some time working on the AKROS holonomic platform. I got it back from the friend I lent it to, wired it up, tested it and assembled with the navigation module. I am not using the encoders...
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Navigation module design update
Intel Realsense t265 + new frame
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...
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ESP32 MicroROS robot update
Experimenting with different ESP32 kits
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...
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4WD mobile robot with ESP32 + Teensy
First steps towards ROS2/MicroROS implementation
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...
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Visualizing DepthAI and SLAM outputs
Pointclouds + Map + Fiducials + Object Detections
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...
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