February 2024

Note To Self

Managed to ‘brick’ a couple of Xiao ESP32C3s at the heart of the robot. Had one spare remaining, commented out the offending code (timer exceptions – dark art though that’s another story). Anyhow, to ‘unbrick’ the others I believe this is the procedure: Can’t exactly remember the order of the above so PLEASE do experiment! […]

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Mixed Results

Finally focused on this project a little. In a nutshell the newly redesigned robot is now controlled from Bluetooth and the hacked drone from WiFi. All from an Android smartphone. Just got the pair working concurrently. The robot trundled along whilst the drone took off. However, bad light stopped play as the drone positioning system relies

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