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WEEK 5 – Astrorover
AUGUST: NightVision Camera: Over the past week, I spent way to many hours trying to get a Raspberry Pi 4 running Ubuntu-22.04 to successfully capture an image with a ZeroCam NoIR with IR – Camera Module. The process turned out to be far more challenging than expected, and I went through several iterations before finding a working solution. At first, I attempted to integrate the camera as a ROS2 node using ninja and colcon, but quickly realized it was not a viable path for this setup. I tried several times, spending multiple hours just waiting for the colcon to build the ros2 work space. The breakthrough came when I installed raspi-config by running sudo apt install raspi-config, launched the Raspberry Pi configuration GUI by running sudo rasp-connfig, and explicitly enabled the camera module interface. This was really a nightmare, but a great feeling figuring it out. Once the camera was recognized by the system, I switched to OpenCV (cv2) for image capture and streaming. With that, I was finally able to capture images directly from the Pi. First picture, what a relief: Flask…
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PickMeBot-week 4
This week, our group has started preparing the presentation for the project. We discussed the key points we want to include, such as the problem domain, our project structure, and the technical solutions we have developed. Each member has taken responsibility for different sections, and we have begun drafting slides and organizing the flow so…
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MiniMuck – Week 4
Weekly summary from Mini Muck (Group 1)
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Hydrawlics – Week 4
Hello and welcome back!👋 In last week’s post, we defined our Minimum Viable Product (MVP) and divided the main components into individual responsibilities. This week we have each been working on our parts to bring the MVP to life. As a reminder, the tasks were distributed as follows: In this post, we’ll share our individual…
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WEEK 4 – GROUP 5
August: Car Design This week I started discussions with Richard regarding the car design. We decided to use wood as the main material since it provides both flexibility in shaping and ease of construction, after tip from Steven. I also sent a list of required components to Steven so that we could order everything needed…
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Week 4 – Group 7
Henning For last week I was mainly focusing on making a third-party GUI for our project. As we were missing certain parts for our car and others in the group has been more focused on the base car code (to make it drive, turn and have the sensors function). I on the other hand focused…
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PickMeBot-week 3
This week we have concentrated on the group. With that we have divided roles, found a group name, and started mocking up the design of the car. Group roles: Robin This week, my time was dedicated to creating a library for the electrical CAD software and developing the first version of the robot’s electrical schematic.…
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AROWEEK – WEEK 3
Bram van den Nieuwendijk In week 3 I had a tour of the components and machinery we can use at the university. Besides this I had a brainstorm meeting together with Rick and Jonas to develop a concept of the car. This meeting was successful as we now know what the concept is roughly going…
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AROWEEK – Week 1& 2
Bram van den Nieuwendijk – Mechinical Engineering Week 2 I did some recearch in possible layouts of the car, and started thinking about what type of mechincal aspects come to play in the design. I did some brainstorming with Rick about this aswell. Åsmund Thygesen – Software Engineer Week 2 I was supposed to start…
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Group 4 – Project Introduction
Overview Our group, group 4, comprises of one mechanical engineer, one electrical engineer, and three computer engineers. Three of our members are international students, and this project marks the first time we’ve collaborated. Despite our diverse backgrounds, we are all enthusiastic about this semester ahead and committed to working closely across our respective disciplines. The…