Will Jessop's Writings

2013/October

• New Pi mount, and testing the power requirements

  Testing the power requirements of my robot and updating the mount for the Raspberry pi.

• Lenses

  Increasing the field of view of the Raspberry Pi camera with cheap phone camera lenses

2013/September

• First prototype robot base

  I finished 3d printing the first prototype of my robot base

• OpenSCAD robot base design

  I switched from Sketchup to OpenSCAD

• Trying out the prototype caterpillar track mount

  I 3D printed a track mount for my pololu tracks.

• Printing out a test caterpillar track and motor mount

  The Hackspace 3D printer in action

• Designing a track mount

  Designing a track mount for my pololu caterpillar tracks. Sketchup is trying very hard to prevent me.

  

• Secret project - MotorPiTX motor board

  I put together my MotorPiTX board and attached it to my robot.

• Secret project

  Designing a track mount robot, new motors

• go-piglow, a lib for controlling the piglow in Golang

  A Go library for controlling the Piglow board with example programs.