My goal: build an outdoor robot to keep the deer away from my plants. Learning goals:
- Brushless motor control: has now reached cheap commodity status and would be good to learn more about. In the past I was always stuck between DC toy motors and full 6 wire AC motor control.
- Vision system on a small micro with edge-AI model for deer detection. After decades of classic machine vision I think it's time to overcome my neural net reservations and plunge in with one of those microcontrollers that can run pre-trained models efficiently
- Battery charging dock that robot drives to autonomously: learning goal is Oregon weather capable contacts or even wireless charging
My instinct would be to do all this in C++ with some Python as high-level glue but maybe time to learn some Rust? Not sure yet.
- Brushless motor control: has now reached cheap commodity status and would be good to learn more about. In the past I was always stuck between DC toy motors and full 6 wire AC motor control.
- Vision system on a small micro with edge-AI model for deer detection. After decades of classic machine vision I think it's time to overcome my neural net reservations and plunge in with one of those microcontrollers that can run pre-trained models efficiently
- Battery charging dock that robot drives to autonomously: learning goal is Oregon weather capable contacts or even wireless charging
My instinct would be to do all this in C++ with some Python as high-level glue but maybe time to learn some Rust? Not sure yet.