I am making a strong commitment to printing all of the PLA drive assembly parts now that I have the filament. So I drove ahead with first setting up multiple part builds. The build plate was packed. The other thing I needed was some minored versions of the parts . To have right and left … More 3D Printed Mecanum Wheels For Dr Who K-9 Drive Assembly – Part 6
Data that is sent over the same channel both directions can be a little tricky. The Jetson sends a request to the Arduino for the latest temperature reading. So you send a number like 17 into the buffer and it sits there until till Arduino test the port and it tell it that there is … More Full Size Dr. Who K-9 Mk II Robot Dog – Part 26 – Arduino Dialog Continues
For a while now I knew that I was going to be using a Arduino to sub process with the Jetson Nano. Let’s see if we can get them to talk. The best place to start is JetsonHack.com he has a page and a YouTube on the subject. I am not detailing the steps when … More Full Size Dr. Who K-9 Mk II Robot Dog – Part 24 – The Arduino Connection
Python coding can be so rewarding and frustrating at the same time. Haha There are so many imports you can add to the program that gives it a wide range of functionality. Just think about what you want it to do, Google it and you will get a solution. Then the fun begins. SMTP or … More Full Size Dr. Who K-9 Mk II Robot Dog – Part 21 – Send Me An Email
K-9 now has a voice! Text to speech is getting better every year with neural networks. And to get a good one you have to pay. The free ones are still very primitive and sometimes hard to understand. The one I picked was Google cloud based voice. After applying for the free starter money of … More Full Size Dr. Who K-9 Mk II Robot Dog – Part 20 Speak
As time goes by I slowly have time to work on the software that will be operating k9. The two year old Jetson Nano is a still a very powerful micro computer for ai development. Nvidia was the horse to bet on. There architecture is accelerating in the field of neural networks and video processing … More Full Size Dr. Who K-9 Mk II Robot Dog – Part 15 – Software Planning
Status update… Well how is my little Jetbot doing? Broken… it’s ok. A little glue and he will be fine. There is alot of wires that come off and I have clumsy feet. He dropped about 18″ to the desk to the floor and the upper body cracked. I wish he was a bit more … More Nvidia Jetson Nano – Jetbot Experimental AI Robot Part 6
Part 5 – Setup, Testing & Review Right now I am in the middle of waiting on parts but Office Max had a black Friday special on SD cards. So I got a 64mb 100 bps PYN card for $15.00. It’s so cool that I get to work on setup this early because it will … More Nvidia Jetson Nano – Jetbot Experimental AI Robot Part 5
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