15 Mar
2025
15 Mar
'25
12:35 p.m.
karl3＠writeme.com wrote: > > so, sending robots into [air]space first lets them accumulate supplies for you there until you move there yourself. > > > thinking for a final product you'd want 2-3 ways to connect to it remotely (and get gps) in case it is high in the sky and one of them breaks. > > > so, things i could buy today to make a barebones prototype today: > > - power pack (ideally a solar one) to power arduino and motors > > - power adapter for motors? > > - party balloons > > - twine, construction materials i'm spending time working on setting up an SOC. my current chosen approach is my cellphone wired to an arduino with termux running tmate on boot. this approach roughly means patching avrdude to accept a filedescriptor on the command line so as to connect to the arduino via android. i'm working on that now. tmate lets other people watch you; the login for that would be karl3wm/connect@nyc1.tmate.io or something like that the example code for patches to access usb devices on termux is at https://wiki.termux.com/wiki/Termux-usb#Details