Matt Hamilton on nostr

I still plan to disassemble it and look for a UART port to get a shell and start the real work, but I'm going to wait until I have to give it the first major cleaning before I do that.

Until I get root and have full C&C, I still wouldn't consider this robot "autonomous"; it requires babysitting

Twice it has pathed out of a mowing zone (poor RTK positioning, my fault, see tip #1) and I had to go rescue it.

Occasionally it has a transient error and stops, I click "clear error" and it resumes.

pat · 1w

nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpq8suxpradq6zcl5r5nfhrkzd7lm3lt3fe0ndg5dcmu4gs07779whqcg7ypj have you considered those chinese lawnmowing tank things? You can often get them for less than 1000 bucks and they're super easy to hack into because they almost always use off the shelf...

Matt Hamilton · 23h

I need the mower to finish one last area this morning and then I can disassemble it. By chance I stumbled on this picture someone posted when debugging their wifi/bt connection. If you look at the bottom to the right of the text "Linux SOC BOARD", there's a 3 (or 4?) pin through-hole contact, like...