The Making of a Maker

Wednesday, December 12, 2012

Time to code some autonomous operation

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I will have to upload a video of the 'bot maneuvering as a very expensive remote control tracked vehicle but here is a picture that it...
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Friday, December 7, 2012

Following a compass bearing (or NOT!)

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One of the things that I would like for my 'bot to be able to do is drive in a straight line.   Seems simple but unfortunately I seem ...
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Tuesday, December 4, 2012

Imagine the look on my face...

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...when my RPi would not boot right after I finished some power supply work on the 'Bot!?!?   I was so convinced that I had fried it tha...

Version control - for hobby 'Bot software?

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You may not think that you need version control for a "hobby" project until you need it!   The code base for the 'Bot is getti...
Sunday, December 2, 2012

Bright Idea re RPi GPIO - NOT!

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So I had this bright idea that I could use the RPi's GPIO pins to offload some processing from the Arduino and save some latency in my c...
Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Easy access for the Raspberry GPIO Bus

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The Python code that drives the 'Bot functions around a processing loop that has to do a number of routine interactions with the 'Bo...
Monday, November 26, 2012

Last of the hardware mods for the 'Bot

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My wife and I just bought a new house so I have been, and/or will be, a little distracted over the coming weeks.   That said I am still maki...
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Wisar
Marlow, BUCKS, United Kingdom
Retired technology executive (CTO and then CIO of a $4.5B business) reinventing himself as a maker. Specializing in solutions that exploit single board micro-processors crossing the physical interface between the computer and the real world. Most recently focused on 3D Printing and Design.
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