I like that idea of gaining a 3rd dimension (z) using a 2d glyph. That's very similar of how motion capture works in the film industry.

Nink, that would be neat. It’s hardware? How’s the price tag? I see users here that’d want it

will, what would you do with the third dimension of tilt? And it’s only a few degrees, remember. As much as the visibility of the actual image to the camera. I’d need a use case to get an idea of what the skill would look like and what features it would provide you. The third dimension doesn’t help with navigation though.

I was thinking more in conjunction with the intel camera map for location (combined) ..but its not that part that fails for the mapping....im thinking of it for another unrelated use tho

That would be one or the other. You see, the ips system mode (like what we are discussing) has a remote camera watching the room to see where the robot is. That is absolute positioning. It’s a godlike view of your robots location

the intel realsense (or slam based sensors like lidar) are not that. They use a collection of sensors mounted on the robot that tries to understand its position in an unknown and constantly changing space. This is why this type of navigation doesn’t exist as a viable or reliable solution. Otherwise, if this was solved, we’d have robots everywhere. This is the problem the entire planet of all super intelligent minds are having difficulty solving - well that and conversational Turing style AI. However, it seems this post says he’s solved all of that or made breakthroughs that would make great robot skills.

Added SSC-32 as a hack suggestion

Hey DJ, when are you going to do the live hack?

I’ll most likely do one of those Jan 15th I’ll have time

I have tried the servo pcb board for position with a DC motor and I can never get it to work or blue smoke the board. Love to see a hack for servo pot and pcb to DC motor Hbridge....like a big one 12 volts or something similar. Thanks.