Not Dead Yet
I've been working on this project and wished to post an update. I don't imagine this blog has a ton of readers but I was looking over old posts and reminiscing and thought maybe it was useful to keep track of progress, for myself if for nobody else. I wanted to include some photographs and screenshots but that will have to wait for another post. Or maybe I'll come back and update this one. I started blogging about this project in the Fall of 2017. I worked on it most of that Winter and into the Spring and then other things took hold. I bounced between Portland and Arizona and most of my stuff was in storage during that time. In 2019 I returned to Portland and I finally ended up living at a place with the space for projects. Up to that point, I had been purchasing remote-controlled tanks off the shelf and modifying them to be autonomous. I had a couple of parts custom-printed from Shapeways. There were several disadvantages to this approach but it was always going to be cost...