roving romi

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  it works!

Inspiration

buddybots project at build18

What it does

i made a robot that drives around looking for a user-specified tag!

How we built it

A tiny bit of C, a bit of Python, and a couple pieces of tape :)

Challenges we ran into

The original goal was to use TensorFlow Lite to run object detection, but I struggled to figure out how to get it working correctly, so I decided to give up on that.

Also, focusing the camera correctly was surprisingly difficult.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

It works! Sort of.

What we learned

I learned what those tags I see around campus are called (AprilTags are one potential variant) and how much nicer it is to use those tags instead of fancy machine learning sometimes to localize.

What's next for project

Ideally? Build something that can actually localize, instead of just spinning around in a circle hoping that it will reach the correct spot. Realistically? Do nothing with it on my shelf for the next few months until I try something else fun with it during the summer.

Built With

• c
• python