Fully Autonomous!

I connected the LiDAR navigation algorithm from the start of this devlog series (way back in June) to the KineticBoard via the same UART commands as shown in the previous devlog. I also asked Gemini to modify the navigation algorithm to be slightly less rigid than it was before, because I found that the robot kept going back and forth whenever it found a better path (which just made it go back to it’s starting point in most cases).

Lastly, I assembled everything into the robot and ensured that the majority of the components are safely guarded. I printed another case for the KineticBoard so it could partially stick off of the back of the robot.

and alas…Colosseus is complete!!

If you’re reviewing this project, note that there are different github repos for each part. I created one master GitHub repo that links to each separate repo.