I took a bit of a break as well. I got a bit fed up with ROS on the Raspberry Pi. The way the various upstream parties interacted was making me grumpy...

Maybe you can work something out with the guy with the Swiss accent. I understand his workshop is in an actual bomb shelter.

Throwing a bunch of parts in a box and shaking vigorously is one of my favorite development methodologies :) Can you bring up 'roscore'? Can you conne...

That is one of the projects I am looking at to see if this is feasible. The build script for those images is at . The script is GPL2.0 or later so we...

It comes down to what the Bill and the DronebotWorkshop members want to do. If there is interest, I can carry on. All of the necessary pieces seem to...

Another couple hours into the project, and it appears that we have come across an excellent example of what Open source does poorly. There were severa...

That is a succinct way of putting it/

Be sure to take the time to take care of yourself. Being a caregiver can really take it out of you.

Have you thought about an 8x8 led cube such as Instructables? eBay and have reasonably priced kits. I found the build a bit tedious, but, it was gre...

Yep, I usually buy a lot of 5 or 10 of the cheap parts. It can be cheaper than buying 2-3 of the name brand parts. I need to assume that I will lose a...

I use (or misuse) networking cable. The only thing to be aware of is that the wire gauge is really small and it is often solid core. Keep an eye out f...

I think that some of these cheap SD cards have failed the manufacturers' testing process and are shipping out the back door to the grey market. They m...

I really like these research posts. They provide great introductions to things I have not gotten around to learning about yet.