Downloadable ROS Base images?

Posted by: @robo-pi

I'd make a video on it, but I'm not sure if there is any interest in the video?

I'd be interested 🙂

I wouldn't understand it of course, but maybe if you put some talking cats or something in it...

Posted by: @spyder

Word of advice... Don't ever take my advice, I have no idea what I'm doing

That's my motto too. ? 

I have had my Pi and Mega cards respond to my commands.   In fact, I have two robots up and running right now, but they don't have sophisticated motor control.  All I can do right now is turn the motors on or off.   What I'm working on now is getting full control over the motor's acceleration rates and distance monitoring.

Probably my biggest problem is that I'm infinitely patient.  Which means that I keep procrastinating on everything. ? 

It's also true that I lose interest when working on things all alone.  So now with the help of the DroneBot Workshop forums and GitHub maybe I can get some people to climb on board to some of my projects.  I'll get them to do all the HARD work. ? 

Posted by: @spyder

I'd be interested

I wouldn't understand it of course, but maybe if you put some talking cats or something in it...

You wouldn't have any problem understanding it at all.   My videos would be a lot like Bill's.  I would take you through every step line-by-line leaving nothing undefined.    My videos would probably be boring for someone who actually knows what they are doing. ? 

In the first set of videos I would just introduce the C# language, Windows Forms, and the IDE while building the basic Forms of the Robot Overseer.   When we're done all we would have is a bunch of empty Forms that open and close. And that would be it for that video.   In fact, that video alone might need to be broken up into several episodes.

Only after that initial Form structure is built would I start adding code to do specific things within each Form. 

You might like the part when we get to the Microsoft Speech Platform.  This would allow you to program your voice controls to do precisely what you want without them thinking that you said something else. ? 

Posted by: @spyder

Posted by: @robo-pi

My mission is to build an A.I. system where I, as the designer, have a full understanding of exactly what's going on behind the scenes.

So my theory of just throwing a bunch of parts in a box and shaking it up to see what comes out isn't gonna work for you I guess

I guess this all comes down to semantics.  I would call that, "Brainstorming". ? 

Posted by: @dronebot-workshop

I doubt you'll have a lot of luck with anything less than a Pi 3 B+ robo-pi, the Zero and those older models don't have a lot of CPU horsepower.

Strange thing, the Ros on the Pi doesn't seem to be running awful, even so, I'm still gonna pick up a B+ tomorrow. The strange part is the turtle master I installed on the laptop. It's an alienware with a bunch of horsepower. That's the one that's running really pokey

Not just pokey either. It locks up and won't open some programs at all

I may have to find another machine to run the master on

Oh, this is nice. I just reloaded it, and it's running much better now. Interesting

Thinking that I had somehow damaged the Pi turtle install by messing with it, I decided to reload it, so now I'm back to square one with it.

hostapd still there, and wifi still not working

I found the hostapd tho

Need to edit the conf file

/etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf

Then edit this file to tell it where to find the .conf file. It'll be listed under "#DAEMON_CONF"
/etc/default/hostapd

Did that fix it ? No. But it's a place to start

And the turtle master is locking up the Alienware again. This isn't as much fun as I had hoped it would be

@robo-pi I would love to see more about what you are doing. I video seems like a lot of work. I wouldn't have the slightest idea about how to get started.

@dronebot-workshop I am glad I can help do some legwork. A project is a lot more satisfying when you see others start to contribute to the overall vision 🙂 

Posted by: @twobits

@robo-pi I would love to see more about what you are doing. I video seems like a lot of work. I wouldn't have the slightest idea about how to get started.

I've been wanting to start my own YouTube channel similar to Bill's DroneBot Workshop.  At least in terms of how he explains things.   My content would be quite different though.  My channel would basically just be a vlog of what I'm doing on my robot project.  Actually kind of like what Bill is doing with just the DB1 series.

I don't know if I could keep up with a regular schedule of putting out videos though.   I would just put out what I can when I can.   I actually started making a video for writing the Robot Overseer in C#.   I think these would be fairly easy to follow even for people who never programmed in C# before.  Although, it is true that I use some programming techniques that do require quite a bit of explanation.   And I'm also not even sure how orthodox my methods are.  All I know is that they seem to work on my computer.

There's also the other end of things.  The Robot Overseer program itself is basically meaningless until it has a robot to communicate with.   Although, that's not entirely true.  A lot can be done with the Speech Recognition part with just running C# on a notebook computer.

Tonight I've been working on my new GitHub webpage.  I'm working on it mostly off-line.  I'm writing it by hand just using HTML code and Programmer's Notepad.   That seems to be working pretty good so far.   Writing up this document to describe my robot project will actually help get me reorganized again.  I've been going through a lot of my old notes and surprisingly they are making sense.  I also repaired and got two of my old Raspberry Pies up and running headless on WiFi with a brand new OS along with SAMBA for file sharing.  And all that went very well.  So that was encouraging. 

Days seem to go by like hours anymore.  I have a lot of work that needs to be done before winter, and believe it or not I already feel like I'm in a race with Winter coming, and this is just the middle of July!  So lots to do here. ? 

I just finished organizing my web pages on GitHub.   The pages are empty right now.  All I wanted to do at this point was to set up the basic table of contents and all the main pages it will point to as well as providing home links on every page to get back home again.

This took me a little while because my HTML was a bit rusty.  But thanks to Programmer's Notepad getting these pages set up was pretty easy.  I'll add content later as it become relevant.

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