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In the last update, I made some hardware changes and implemented ROS nodes for each part. Except the odometry. Since the hall-effect sensor I had operated on 5 volts and I did not have a voltage level shifter on hand, I decided to use the Arduino Nano (which I was... [Read More]

Finally after a month of waiting, I received the Wi-Fi antenna which I ordered from Amazon. I was finally able to replace my bulky antenna with these tiny ones that actually fit on the car. Using zipties, I simply attached them to either side of the base plate as shown... [Read More]

This post is not really a blog, more a series of photos. Over the last month, I have been playing around with Autodesk Fusion 360 and getting some real experience with designing my own parts. Last week, I was finally pretty satisfied with my design for new base-plates and decided... [Read More]

ROS stands for the Robot Operating Sysem [ROS Wiki]. However, it is not really an operating system, but can be instead classified as middleware that works on operating systems like Ubuntu, and now recently, also Windows. This means that ROS essentially acts as a middle-man or an interface between multiple... [Read More]

After pausing this project for almost half a year (I was busy graduating and finding a job), the pandemic has me stuck at home with so much extra time on my hands. Since March, at least 10 days before the Netherlands went into Lockdown, I decided to restart this project,... [Read More]