2019-8-30
The RaspberryPi is a tiny and diminutive computer, but I often cannot carry it with me on places like trains for daily commute. In such scenarios it is nice to have the Raspbian Desktop available handy for quick experiments.
2019-6-3
It has been two months since I wrote my last post. It has taken a bit to fully get over the disappointment. But last weekend marked the official end of Robot J2...
2019-4-1
So we attended PiWars 2019 yesterday, and failed miserably with our robot - J2. It broke down on the second event of the day, struggled with the third event and went up in smokes on the fourth. We came 15th (last) in our category. It was a sobering lesson in robot building and failures. I have blogged a lot of what I did with PiWars bots in the past, but not always focused on the fails, so I think the time has come for me to detail the fails, if nothing for myself to refer to.
2019-3-14
So here we are... 2 weeks to go! Honestly I didn't want to write a post yet but today is the last day for submission into the competition, so I thought I'll share some more of the progress. Actually a lot of stuff has happened on the mechanical end of things and not enough has happened on the software side. So end result is a fairly good looking bot that still needs a lot of integration and testing. However, lots of lessons were learnt, so I'll try to cover some those today.
2019-2-18
First up, many apologies for not writing a new post in the last two and a half months. No, I didn't give up on PiWars 2019, it has been just... things... But I am back, hoping to cover all the challenges our team has faced and overcome, in as much details as possible.
2018-11-30
Many apologies for the delayed update, I have been failing at doing detailed blog posts rather badly,