Household Robot Project Ep9 :: the Visual Cortex

[@RoboJRR]

Joe you are too funny! I really enjoy seeing your progress and your sense of humor added in. As I run into similar struggles with my own robot its very encouraging to me to see your problem-solving approaching. 😃 Something I've come to love and hate are cameras in my robot because IR filtering seems like a great idea, until the colors bleed out like you found. Adding a visible head light to the robot seems like a good idea, until you create shadows on objects. Tossing 84 different types of cameras on the robot to get all the perfect forms of vision seems like a good idea until you realize it's a coding nightmare and your robot's head won't fit though a doorway, and it eats up battery power in 5 minutes, lol

[@joethieman9400]

😆 Yeah, my brother is a bit of a camera nerd, and he says that increasing the size of the image sensor and size of the lens will help dramatically... so now I'm researching down that rabbit hole to see if I can cobble together the right combination of parts to get the result I want... 😂

[@stedag]

I have been living in docker on jetson for some time, building tooling for an older model in an industrial implementation. As long as you're using a base image that can replicate all the cuda demos and such that you can run directly on your system, it can be pretty useful for ensuring reproducability... That said, it's a rabbit hole. I'm really impressed at your rate of development so far. Great work!!

[@joethieman9400]

Thanks for the encouragement! Nice to hear from someone who actually uses Jetsons in an industrial setting... it kinda reassures me that they can be made stable. 🤣

[@robotustra]

Congratulations, you just realized that you are on the tip of the tip of an iceberg with your software.

[@joethieman9400]

I've been here before... lol

[@robotustra]

@@joethieman9400 Don't worry, you are not alone there kzbin.info1D2iAA-b3Yc

[@MrBlocksPlays]

Dos your dog ever leave the flour lol

[@lifefromscratch2818]

He's a pretty down to earth fellow.

[@joethieman9400]

Yeah, he pretty much lives there.. 😆

[@JaniMikaelOllenberg]

Love your stuff man :P I just bought a used hoverboard for my own robot project :) Could you make a video about slam? I never figured out how to do that myself.

[@joethieman9400]

I'm still kinda figuring it out myself, but I'll put it on my 'Videos to Make" list!

[@RobotandGameDevelopment-le1zs]

With Docker you need to have the fitting CUDA/cuDNN/toolkit versions for the NVIDIA-driver running on the Jetson, and even then it can be hard to configure it, give it the right permissions etc. So I am afraid you are still trapped in dependency hell because of how the NVIDIA-ecosystem works, it will probably not solve your update-problem on the jetson. However, for software that is not reliant on CUDA/NVIDIA things a Docker environment might be a great way to solve dependency problems.

[@joethieman9400]

Well that sucks. 🤣 All of the problems I'm having right now are things that rely on CUDA and NVIDIA... 😂