@zander You may have seen from some other previous posts that froggy has had his post thread locked and one recent one deleted. I find, when I offe...

@zander I think you can install motioneye onto a rpi os, but I think there are a few hoops to go through. In the past motioneye took either the rpi...

And yes, your are a very clever chapie I'm sure. For a connection to the broker a Last Will can be set that will comprise of a topic and payload. If...

Wishing you a speedy and good recovery from your fall, and be sure to take it easy, the likes of pi camera can wait until you are good and ready. As...

Rpi always recommends a fresh install rather than an upgrade between their operating systems, but this maybe what you intend anyway as you are going f...

Another good example of robot following something that it recognises is the dronebot video on the pixy2. This is based on camera image technology rat...

Jolly clever that MQTT, it seemingly knows just what the user would want to do when the client providing the temperature readings fails to ping the br...

I guess it makes sense. I'm good for a bit of trigonometry when I can look up a known formula like a compass bearing calcs from GPS data etc. but hav...

As its a 2 wheeled bot and thus will rock on its axis as the bot proceeds I presume you will have to take its current tilt from the vertical into acco...

@huckohio The amusingly named 'Last Will and Testimony' mqtt message only works in the situation where a mqtt client has, for some reason, become di...

dunno, perhaps it falls over, better ask CATHI 😀

An impressive beginning. Does CATHI have an end goal or is it just an experimental rig to get to learn to use ROS in an indoor setting. Whatever, it...

@robotbuilder Ive just had a google of some robo vac's. They are indeed very small and squat and some high end ones do use lidar to map the space, ...

I'm not aware of this, but interesting. Maybe they use more than one 'beam' to compensate for the very narrow horizontal band that mine uses or they ...

Advice to a new hobbyist without programming experience who chance upon a Dronebot video and decide to have a go would be to take a few days out and h...