Gonna need

…a lot of cat pictures.

So the first set of tutorials I was working with have me some annoyance. I don’t pay nice when I follow the tutorial, where guy is trying to sell his books, and then I have to do a search to get back to where I was to find out what was wrong in the original tutorial.

The second tutorial sourceseems to alternate between Python 2 and 3. Also there send to be some disconnects on how someone would choke the tutorials to begin with.

Now I’m on tutorial source numero trĂ©s. I’m liking them except I’m at an impasse again.

So I have a couple goals here with Mustachio…

  • Sweep the floors
  • Locate cat toys
  • Corral slippers
  • Track the kittehs
  • Other

This works out to be sure a bit. One issue is that Reese’s kitty face doesn’t trigger with the built in CV functions. This means I need to build my own trainer. This is also a lot of work for a little Pi, so I should off load the work. So I need to run across on the desktop, that takes pictures from the rover,  processes them, and hands them back to the rover to act upon. I do want the operation decisions done on the rover itself. Passing the pictures back and forth should be easy as N-O-D-E that spells moon. The trick is I need to get the trainer going, and that’s not playing nice. I think tomorrow I’ll do the whole setup a  python virtualenv thing. That kind of did gives me a sad, but hopefully it’ll do the trick.