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amcdonley

Try check temperature and power status in each loop:

vcgencmd measure_temp
vcgencmd get_throttled

amcdonley

How should I interpret get_throttled=0x10000 or 0x30000 ? This post seems to imply under-voltage and throttling come together (I added hex views) 0: under-voltage (0xX0001) 1: arm frequency capped (0xX0002 or 0xX0003 with under-voltage) 2: currently throttled (0xX0004 or 0xX0005 with under-voltage) ...

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Cool - Especially thank you for the one line opencv and all dependencies install. Somewhere I read about a book with 128 steps to follow to install OpenCV, so I have been putting off my initiation into OpenCV. I am running cam-track.py on Stretch upgraded from Jessie (using OS X remote desktop displ...

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I added the LiFePO4wered/Pi3 UPS to my RPi3, along with the 15x15x15mm Adafruit heatsink and moved from a metal Flirc case to an acrylic case for the UPS and Pi3. My "boincstatus.sh script checks the temperature and throttled flags once every 10 seconds. I was seeing get_throttled would return throt...

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The GoPiGo robot pan_servo(angle) function puts 0 degrees facing left, 90 degrees straight ahead, and 180 to the right. (gopigo.py for rev 2.) If I understand the ROS Wiki correctly, ROS (and iRobot) put the robot frame X axis straight ahead, Z up), with positive angles turn left (from the x axis/fo...

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mosespi wrote: MoPower UPS

I needed to study this puppy a bit. It looks good as a UPS, but 50ma charge rate won't get me 4000ma over night. Oh well, was hoping.

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Thanks @mosespi - gives me some options and helps me understand how schottky diodes work.

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Somewhere I saw an I2C Real Time Clock that could wake-up the RPi. I'll have to see if I can drive onto a recharging station, then shutdown with a scheduled "wake me up in four hours". If the bot shuts down right away, it might just work. I'll have to figure out if my Pololu SP power switch can be t...

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Good point - so perhaps a large Capacitor (or on the extreme the LiFePO4wered/Pi battery+charger) would isolate the load variation from the battery.

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My RPi3 based robot is powered by 6 Ni-MH 5000mAh C-cells. I use a Tenergy 1025 "Smart" charger which auto detects that the nominal battery is 7.2v, charges at 2A using "negative delta-V" to detect when to switch to trickle charging. This all works wonderful IF my robot is shutdown first. If I leave...

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The problem space is huge, and OpenCV is *THE* solution. We need to grow the number of people that understand how to apply OpenCV functions to basic vision problems.

There are no vision "components" yet, only tools for folks to build with.

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My RPi3 robot is powered by six 5000mAH Ni-MH C-cells, and a Tenergy 1025 Smart Charger. Last weekend, when I plugged my bot in to recharge, the charger blinked "bad battery" condition. Two of the (year old) Tenergy C-cells were at 0 volts, while the other four cells read 1.1 volts. I had some three...

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What is the meaning/reason for the (45) in the "vcgencmd measure_clock arm" result?

frequency(45)=1200000000

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Did you try their sample program ?? sudo apt-get install python-serial Then copy the following into an executable file and run it. #!/usr/bin/python import serial ser = serial.Serial('/dev/ttyAMA0', 38400, timeout=1) try: while 1: response = ser.readline() z = response.split(",") if len(z)>=2: print...

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Anyone integrated the new Dexter Industries laser "Distance Sensor" or the Adafruit VL53L0X Time-of-flight sensor to their robot? They both contain the VL53L0X laser "time of flight" sensor and interface via I2C. The "laser" beam and sensor acceptance cones are quite large so it will be interesting ...

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Thanks for the heads up on einsteinathome.org - I added to my deskPi3 projects. I have been a part of SETI@Home since it started in 1999 and then WorldCommunityGrid. I just don't like having my computers powered off - weird but me. I have BOINC configured for 5GB disk, 80% of memory 70% of CPU time ...

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What do your ultrasonic distance scans look like? Do you get wide variations in distance readings? Here is my "sample=30" run of us_servo_scan.py , (from GoPiGo), when placed 60 cm looking at a corner: tMap: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ...

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mattmiller wrote:You might want to consider using ArUco type markers to assist with its situational awareness

Wow - so cool. Thanks.

The markermapper from the same folks puts it all together. I am so pumped. I just need to retire, right now, to have the time to play with all this!

amcdonley

Lately I've been doing a lot of thinking about how best to raise my robot's intelligence level beyond basic motor skills. The need for this stems from my desire for the robot to be able to find its way back to a recharging station, to enable a more continuous robot "life" cycle. With the Pi3 process...

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This is a very apropos question for what I am doing - attempting to convert a robot written in Interactive C (on 68HC11) to Python (on Raspian Jessie). Interactive C had concepts of light weight "processes" and shared memory (even persistent across reboot shared memory) with hardware interrupts. I a...

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Then here is main(): def main(): startup() #prints some instructions. while True: print("Auto mode = ", AUTO) if AUTO == 1: auto_mode() elif AUTO == 0: print("auto mode is off") sleep(1) else: sys.exit() # just for testing purposes And here is auto_mode(): def auto_mode(): print("led loop") green.o...

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Suggest restart and do the auto on/off tutorial at http://webiopi.trouch.com/Tutorial_Basis.html and the follow up tutorial on a web page to change the on/off times. When you fully understand that last one, you will be on the path. The reason you may be getting stuck is a basic architecture problem ...

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I don't know exactly to accomplish this, but one way might be to have the On button "touch autonomous.on", and launch a "do_autonomous.py&" command. The do_autonomous.py could check for the presence of the autonomous.on file in its main loop or a dedicated periodic thread. When the file is not found...

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Absolutely cool. Some concepts to consider:

*Non-Autonomous mode timeout - no input from "web page" in x minutes, enter autonomous mode
*Any input from web page exits Autonomous mode (stop all motion, center sensor platform)

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I'm contemplating creating an egret or heron inspired model for my robot. General flow: egret(): loop until "tired*": (Look straight ahead) loop until "tired of standing here": "think about something" how far is path forward clear*? if path not clear, turn to new direction else: move "forward some"...

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Interpreting get_throttled=0x10000 or 0x30000

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Laser Ranging Sensor (VL53L0X)

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Using PiCam for situation awareness

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