[TriEmbed] Anyone want to build a open source sidewalk robot with me?

[Rodney Radford]

Hi Charlie - glad to see you back in NC and to hear about the progress on
your sidewalk robot - it sounds very interesting.

Unfortunately I am already overwhelmed with enough projects that I could
not offer much help other than possibly comments and/or advice if needed.

In my current job I am designing IoT devices for ConnectedDevelopment
(subsidiary of Mouser and TTI, one of Warren Buffet's many companies) and
having a lot of fun.

Hopefully TriEmbed can meet again in person soon and we can all get
together again and you can bring your robot in for a demo/presentation.


On Thu, Jul 7, 2022 at 2:39 PM Charles West via TriEmbed <
triembed at triembed.org> wrote:

> Hello!
>
> I'm back in NC!  I'm still working on the open source sidewalk robot, but
> I got a phase 1 NASA STTR on another project so I have a bit more money to
> put into it (from my wages).  Right now the prototype can stay on the
> sidewalk, dodge people 80% of the time, and navigate crossings to get to
> where you want it to go on the GPS based map.  Pending parts arriving
> ($#&*! shortage), I intend to build another 5-10 robots so that I can
> either get things moving with multiple people (it's trained currently by
> driving it and then curating the recorded data) or try to swap to
> reinforcement learning where they learn by themselves.
>
> Hardware wise, they are skid steer robots with custom hoverboard motors
> with the new generation driven by an integrated STM32 microcontroller
> controlling the 4 motors, a jetson nano for compute, a fisheye camera, GPS
> and a 20AH LiFePO.
>
> It's an open source project, so other people are welcome to build their
> concepts and/or businesses on the platform.  I am also eager to put robots
> in the hands of people that will actually help me work the kinks out
> (permanently if they did cool stuff with it).
>
> What do you guys think?  Anyone want to work on this with me?
>
> Thanks,
> Charlie West
>
> Robot:
> https://photos.app.goo.gl/L5yJDzS1PGnt3NNm8
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