Hi Charlie - glad to see you back in NC and to hear about the progress on your sidewalk robot - it sounds very interesting.
Unfortunately I am already overwhelmed with enough projects that I could not offer much help other than possibly comments and/or advice if needed. In my current job I am designing IoT devices for ConnectedDevelopment (subsidiary of Mouser and TTI, one of Warren Buffet's many companies) and having a lot of fun. Hopefully TriEmbed can meet again in person soon and we can all get together again and you can bring your robot in for a demo/presentation. On Thu, Jul 7, 2022 at 2:39 PM Charles West via TriEmbed < triembed@triembed.org> wrote: > Hello! > > I'm back in NC! I'm still working on the open source sidewalk robot, but > I got a phase 1 NASA STTR on another project so I have a bit more money to > put into it (from my wages). Right now the prototype can stay on the > sidewalk, dodge people 80% of the time, and navigate crossings to get to > where you want it to go on the GPS based map. Pending parts arriving > ($#&*! shortage), I intend to build another 5-10 robots so that I can > either get things moving with multiple people (it's trained currently by > driving it and then curating the recorded data) or try to swap to > reinforcement learning where they learn by themselves. > > Hardware wise, they are skid steer robots with custom hoverboard motors > with the new generation driven by an integrated STM32 microcontroller > controlling the 4 motors, a jetson nano for compute, a fisheye camera, GPS > and a 20AH LiFePO. > > It's an open source project, so other people are welcome to build their > concepts and/or businesses on the platform. I am also eager to put robots > in the hands of people that will actually help me work the kinks out > (permanently if they did cool stuff with it). > > What do you guys think? Anyone want to work on this with me? > > Thanks, > Charlie West > > Robot: > https://photos.app.goo.gl/L5yJDzS1PGnt3NNm8 > _______________________________________________ > Triangle, NC Embedded Interest Group mailing list > > To post message: TriEmbed@triembed.org > List info: http://mail.triembed.org/mailman/listinfo/triembed_triembed.org > TriEmbed web site: https://TriEmbed.org > To unsubscribe, click link and send a blank message: mailto: > unsubscribe-triem...@bitser.net?subject=unsubscribe > Searchable email archive available at > https://www.mail-archive.com/triembed@triembed.org/ > >
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