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Posted 08 September 2026, This post is a follow up to Moving Vision Processing to My 4-Wheel Robot, Part 2 | Paynter’s Palace.

Posted 09 September 2026 While upgrading my 4-wheel autonomous wall-following robot to add vision enhancement, Wall-E managed to dive off my bench onto the floor – twice!

Posted 31 August On 11 August 2026 we had a multi-hour night-time AC power loss at our home, and although I was able to get our backup power generator running and AC power partially restored, there were some ‘issues’.

Posted 03 August 2026, Part 1 in this series laid out the strategy for adding vision processing capabilities to my 4-wheel robot.

Posted 29 July 2026 In a prior post, Grok help me figure out why I was having so much trouble trying to change my Voron 2.4 printer from ‘dock’ to ‘no_dock’ configuration.

In my old 4-wheel robot setup, I had a 5V regulator built around an LF50CV low-voltage dropout 3-pin regulator.

Posted 25 July 2026 For quite a while I have used the accessories tray shown below, but I have become increasingly unhappy with the quality with it; in particular the small tray sections aren’t quite big enough to handle all my USB sticks, micro-SD cards…

Posted 08 July 2026 In this previous post, I describes my work with Grok Code to successfully demonstrate the use of vision processing with a Luxonis OAKD-Lite camera and a Raspberry Pi5 to generate ‘best clear direction’ advisories for robot motion contr…

Posted 06 July 2026 After wrapping up the Wifi_OTA project described in this post, Grok Code and I moved on to the next big step – integrating the Luxonis OAKD-Lite camera integrated into ROS (Robot Operating System) so the robot could take advantage of t…

Posted 28 June 2026 When I work on significant projects like the vision-enhanced robot project, I generally hold two different but related mental maps for the overall project.