Progress on the tankbot.

[Carl Ranson]

So I've come a way since I started.

Got gobot.io installed

Got piblaster installed

Wrote a driver for the motor driver board

Installed SDL2

Wrote a driver the for magicsee joystick

Worked out how to get the pi to boot into running the software. 

Here's a video of it driving around over some blocks today.

https://youtu.be/BftG2XbA-oc

Thanks to Ron for dealing with my dumb questions. 

CR.

[Ron Evans]

Hi, Carl

That looks really cool! Did you post the code anywhere?

Glad I was able to help out in any way, seems like you've got it well in hand now!

Regards,

Ron

[Carl Ranson]

nah, no code yet. 

I've shared the joystick stuff with you on here. 

Next step is to add a bunch of sensors so it can do some smarter behaviour (avoid crashes, cliffs etc)

Will consider posting code once it does something novel. for now its just converting joystick input to motor outputs. 

Cheers, 
CR

[Ron Evans]

Which motor controller did you use?

[Carl Ranson]

one of these. pololu Dual MC33926 Motor Drivers

https://www.pololu.com/product/2756

yes, i know it's not on your list and I'm more than happy to contribute it to the project. Just need to find time to get my head around the contributing process. 

CR