Andrei Gramakov – Blog

Emotional Core Sketch

Well, the third milestone is in progress. It’s time for the most interesting part of the project – emotions and reflexes. Now, let’s talk about emotions, but in short. In my view and my understanding of what should be going on…

Zakhar Milestone: Zakharos

Changelog since the Reptile Demo Milestone: Common: Sensor platform: Computing (brain) platform: Moving platform: Repository: https://github.com/an-dr/zakhar Error happened.

Startup check

The startup system check is shown on an OLED display. The display has its separate i2c bus (I2C-3) to communicate with the Raspberry. The startup process is the following: Gif of the process: Code of the startup check process: https://github.com/an-dr/zakhar_service/tree/feature/display_n_startup/display…

Nocturnal

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[Bad Idea, canceled] Power post. Part one.

There are a lot of issues when you connect low- and high-current devices to the same electrical circuit. Basically, you are getting: That’s really annoying that’s why I spend last several weeks thinking how to implement power supply for Zakhar.…

Turns: -45, +45, -90, +90 degrees

Updated code here: https://github.com/an-dr/zakhar_platform/pull/2 Error happened.

Assembled with the new moving platform! Turn 90 degree

From the Raspberry, the moving platform gets an argument 0x5a (90) degrees, then a command to turn right. If the argument is 0x00 command is executing during 100ms then the platform stops. Error happened.