My home navigation bot.

@byron

I will post tonight on Thingi

My tonight is almost up, so night night from me, but I will search it out Sunday morning for sure ? .   Much obliged @triform.

Posted by: @triform

The latest update on my bot: https://randomcoderblog.wordpress.com/

Have the camera mounted and did some sensor tests.

   I seem to be mixing you up with jscottbee, your pages seem to be much the same?

"Find the latest on it at:  https://randomcoderblog.wordpress.com/tag/robotics/

Scott"

Unfortunately I have the Pi NoIR Camera V2 which I guess will not work the same as the  Pixy2.

@casey

Sorry for the mixup. but I am jscottbee.

A long story and a new start! 🙂

I could Tinkercad a mount for you, looks simple. Do you want a mount that allows for the servo connection like I have on mine?

Scott

@triform

Welcome back, I really liked your stuff and was afraid you found another hangout.

@casey

Would this one work you think?

@twobits

Thanks. Glad to be back.

@byron

Posted to Thingi: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3760050

Let me know if you have any issues.

Posted by: @triform

@casey

Would this one work you think?

It might but at this point in time the PiNoIR camera is still in its box. I just picked it up, on a whim, from Altronics last time I was in Adelaide (Australia) which I get to visit every few months. However the issue is not how to mount the camera, it is what language I can use on the Rpi to grab and process images from the PiNoIR in real time. On a windows PC I have the escapi.dll to capture images from webcams but that will not work with the Linux OS let alone the PiNoIR camera.

@casey

I have used Motion (for streaming) and Picamera , openCV via Python or C in real-time. You could also call raspistill from the command shell or a program you write and get an image. There are a few other ways as well.   

Tonight I have been working on the code for serial communication between the Arduino Mega and the on board windows based laptop. For the time being I will use the laptop to capture images. Hopefully I will have something to post by the end of the week to talk about with regards to using vision for navigation. I will be interested in how the Pixy2 camera for sign navigation goes.

@casey

I would definitely be interested in how that project works out

I have my pc talking to the Mega Arduino. The test setup is 4 buttons and 4 LEDs and the robot base motors. The pc program can request the state of the buttons or toggle the LEDs.  For some reason the command to turn on the motors simply isn't being carried out. I know the motors and their functions work fine because I have the robot base using the encoders to do some dead reckoning navigation.  So when I find the bugs I will post all the details. Hopefully I will get some time to work on it this weekend.