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This has been a fun puzzle to figure out thus far, I hope I'm able to move forward with it. I'll keep this updated with progress.


Just want to encourage your endeavors and that it remains fun for you to continue and that even if they haven't responded to this particular post will, like me, be following any future posts with interest. It looks very much state of the art so far for this type or robot.

The hardware look impressive so now in some ways the harder and more consuming part, the software?

 

 

]]> Show & Tell robotBuilder https://forum.dronebotworkshop.com/show-tell/blue-exploration-robot/#post-50910 "Blue": Exploration robot https://forum.dronebotworkshop.com/show-tell/blue-exploration-robot/#post-50883 Sat, 01 Mar 2025 04:35:51 +0000 This is a new project for me based on a model I did a year or so ago, but now I'm finally getting back to it. It is a robot named "Blue" that will wander and take in information, do SLAM and navigation, hide and seek, face and object recognition, and I'm hoping maybe to integrate ChatGPT at some point with voice control. The chassis is 3D printed, some of the parts made by me in Blender and some gathered from ORP (an excellent idea, see here: ORP - Home). The bot is made in four levels. The bottom level is the motor and power area with two 12V motors with encoders and a battery pack for 3 18650s to power the motors. The second level has the "muscles", an Arduino Nano and a TB6612FNG motor controller. All the wires were unmanageable, so I wired the driver and Nano up on a mini perf breadboard with some terminals for motor wires and power. There is a small breadboard next to the arrangement for small sensors. The third level contains the Raspberry Pi 5 and the necessary 5V power supply for it, and also an OAK-D Lite AI camera for Computer Vision. This is on a servo so the camera can look up and down. The last level has an RPLidar for Mapping and navigation.  I've got the code up for the Arduino elsewhere on this forum, and the Raspberry Pi will be running ROS2 Jazzy on Ubuntu 24.04. This has been a fun puzzle to figure out thus far, I hope I'm able to move forward with it. I'll keep this updated with progress.

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