Hello Again!
We intended to do those reports more often, but we failed.
Gazebo integration
Błażej (blazej) has added physical properties to the URDF model and created a package that provides a simulation of our rover in Gazebo. It allows us to test most of our software in a simulated environment before trying it on the machine.
Jetson Power Monitoring - GUI
Olek (bitterisland6) has created a user interface that displays voltage and current measurements from NVIDIA Jetson TX2 board.
Unified UIs
Arek (arusekk) has unified our templates for our user interfaces so it’s more user friendly and consistent.
Driver for Auvidea J20
Błażej (blazej) has developed device tree configuration for NVIDIA Jetson TX2 that enables the use of Auvidea J20 board (6 port camera expander).
Global State Machine
Magda (jaro) has resarched the use of smach library and prototyped a state machine that would conform to competition rules to indicate the status of operation (manual, idle, autonomous).
Improved Creality 3D Printer
Cezary (cezar/acriaer) has managed to drastically improve quality of prints coming out of our Creality CR10-S5, however they are still not good enough for him and he intends to improve it even further.
Rust on STM32
Paweł (dyniec) got Rust language to work on Blackpill development board.
Continuum goes open-source
During the last months we have made some of our projects public. We are still figuring out the licencing stuff, but are hoping to release them on a permissive license e.g. 3-clause BSD.
In the meantime, Cezary (cezar/acriaer) has shared the embedded side of his RUBI project, which we are using extensivly on ℵ1½ rover.
Rubi Wireshark plugin
Arek (arusekk) has developed a plugin for wireshark that allows interpreting messages that follow the RUBI protocol format on the CAN bus.