The Great Homelab Renaissance

Welp. It’s been a year. With the rise of LLMs in every aspect of life I felt it was necessary to learn more about how to use them in practical...

homelab

April 26, 2025

Controlling a Dynamixel AX-12A with a Raspberry Pi and ROS 2

Got my hands on 5 Dynamixel AX-12A servos from work. I’m planning to make a little robot will them (well planning and finishing are different things). I want to get...

raspberry-pi

dynamixel

ros2

ros

servo

January 26, 2025

RP2040 Devboard

Wow another devboard. I wanted to start playing around with an RP2040 in a newer robotics controller. This devboard is to prove out whether I can design a working PCB...

rp2040

raspberry-pi

pico

electronics

devboard

January 25, 2025

ROS 2 Integration Tests

Quick example on how to setup integration tests in ROS 2. Specifically running tests on a life cycle node. The information is generally available online in pieces, but I didn’t...

ros2

ros

December 26, 2024

2024 Retrospective

Well another year has past. As is tradition (well since 2022). I like to do a retrospective blog post on how the year went. In my 2023 retrospective I...

retrospective