AKAditya Kamathinkamathrobotics.com·Sep 25 · 9 min readUsing Foxglove as an SO-101 Simulatortl;dr: While on a little hiatus from the LeKiwi robot, I decided to build a new SO-101 arm and, in parallel, decided to work on the software side first - using ROS 2 Control and sts_hardware_interface00
AKAditya Kamathinkamathrobotics.com·Sep 6 · 10 min readSO-101: Kicking off a new seriesBack in my "6 months in" post, I mentioned an SO-101 arm was next on my list - it's finally here, and a lot's happened since: I got a wrist camera into the URDF, turned a second arm into a lamp, and c00
AKAditya Kamathinkamathrobotics.com·Aug 29 · 7 min readGiving LeKiwi a Voice: Audio IndicatorsBack when I wrote about adding voice control to LeKiwi, I got the reSpeaker Flex mounted, put the mic array through its paces, and ended the post without testing the speaker, which was wired in but si20
AKAditya Kamathinkamathrobotics.com·Jul 30 · 12 min readMore Autonomous Navigation with LeKiwitl;dr: As a follow-up to Autonomous Navigation with LeKiwi, I worked on three features in this post: I first rewired collision_monitor so that teleoperation gets the same collision protection as auton10
AKAditya Kamathinkamathrobotics.com·Jul 26 · 10 min readKamath Robotics: 6 months inMy story started during the COVID-19 lockdown in 2020, when a software-focused screen-facing job left me stuck indoors with more spare time than I knew what to do with, and an itch to finally work wit00
