While I did more work than my normal meh-worthy amount this vacation, I didn’t get as far on my projects as I hoped, which means that my plans for overlording or new robotic overlords is still a process. I think a lot of my challenges comes from the cyclic way I work on things. While it’s great to always come into projects with 90% of fresh eyes and thereby be willing to try something different, it’d also be swell to be able to make that choice for myself rather than let my unfamiliarity with the topic force the new avenues.
Where I’m at? I have my box of motors and stuff. I’ve realized things I should Amazon and am currently building a shipping cart. I’ve started to hook up things experimentally. I have opencv installed and am working through a dozen different tutorials to get it to do the training for the caps.
I currently have the grippers servo plugged into the RedBoard, but I’m getting no movement. I’ll need to look at a few things when I get home: is it the board, the software, or the servo? I should start with the servo as that’ll be easiest to diagnose, as I can just swap the servo. After that, it’ll be the board…
I did dismantle that old power drill I have and am going to start looking at making it a drill press I think. The motor and gearbox are fine if I remember correctly, it’s always the batteries that die first.