038 Achieving Robust Line Following and Position Tracking on our PICO and MicroPython controlled bot

[@davidandrews8566]

Hi Chris, you are certainly getting there now, great progress.😊

[@MakingStuffwithChrisDeHut]

Hi David, Things are moving along with the Zoomie. Assuming there are no more nasty problems, we should be able to start moving onto the actual ZoomTown layout. The hard part about that, is I have a massive amount of programming to to do with the Zcheduler software that runs the whole experiment. Thanks for the kind words! Cheers! Chris

[@peterwest1158]

Hi Chris, an observation on your handling on distance measurements. As an older member of the UK population, I was brought up with imperial measurements and then we went metric sometime ago. So I sympathise with your need to talk to your viewers in both systems. I still naturally use imperial for most things except weights!

[@MakingStuffwithChrisDeHut]

Hi Peter, It certainly can be a pain sometimes but I have had to deal with both systems for many years now. As a CNC Applications Engineer, I work in different companies every week and some shops are all Imperial (oddly many defense contractors!) and Metric. My "comfort zone" is in the range of a meter down to a micron - most of the time closer to dealing with millimeters and microns in precision machining. If my head is clear I am lucky enough to bounce back and forth. Having been working with both systems in manufacturing, I am now a convert and wish the imperial system of length measuring would go away, however I still like Imperial for Weights and Temperatures 🙂 In the UK has the Imperial system pretty much vanished from society now? Cheers! Chris

[@peterwest1158]

@@MakingStuffwithChrisDeHut Hi Chris, we still use imperial for distances on roads, always an issue when you take your car to Europe (Sat Nav great help here). Weights and volumes are mainly metric. Where would we be without standards ? Cheers Peter

[@tomek3633]

omg, i really had to laugh when you started poking the zoomies (~ minute 5) ... so great :)

[@MakingStuffwithChrisDeHut]

ISN'T THAT A HOOT!!!! I got really carried away trying to knock it "off track" while preparing for that video. I laughed my butt off watching it recover so aggressively. Cheers! Chris

[@youcasc9038]

uufff... I was tired after this video. keep going.

[@MakingStuffwithChrisDeHut]

I hear you buddy! I too am exhausted after filming and editing that feature length film :-) Unfortunately, with the experiment moving towards the final phase, each episode may need to cover a lot of information. Thanks for the encouragement, I need it! Cheers! Chris