Greetings,
the past two weeks have been such a good time thanks to Raspberry Pi Zero W and the CamJam Edukit #3. I have honestly been like a child when getting anxious about something with full of energy and hardly wanting to go to bed. The threshold to start experimenting with embedded systems is considerably lower than ever before. With CamJam kit you get almost everything ready and get a functional basic robot with minor effort. What is left to you is to develop the system further and implement improvements either by software or through component changes to the hardware.
The video below demonstrates a test drive by the robot with the distance sensor installed and a basic piece of software implemented for avoiding collisions. As one may see, the drive is far from perfect, but I got really excited to see it actually work and see the co-operation of the software and hardware in the practice. I don’t list any code here, as until now I have mostly used the provided code snippets, but maybe in the future if I am able to develop something fancy…
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Obviously the project with the robot continues, but the next RaspBi project is already under way – I plan to implement a system at home to measure the air quality inside (and maybe also outside) the apartment. The component have already been sent by Mr. Ali from China. 😉