This is really impressive work. Both RapidCam and the Cabinet Design Studio seem fairly polished already. I'd love to learn more about the process behind these creations.
Paint point on most systems is the camera itself. Seems like every Chinese ip camera has some 'ecosystem'. Does you system use any cameras other than Raspberry Pi?
Our project specifically is only meant for Raspberry Pi Zero 2W. We decided on this early on due to Raspberry Pi being a safer source for hardware, and it allows much more customization (e.g. custom 3D printed cases, our HAT, etc). We also wanted it to be a WiFi camera that's super easy to setup and doesn't require technical knowledge to use.
I think the main complaint is with virtual Qwerty keyboards rather than the idea of virtual keyboards overall. If the KeyBee keyboard had a control key it would be very good. (Well, the fork of it that allows extra-alphabetical custom keys along the top, anyway.)
Switching from a "raw" b-tree system to an SQL system with transactions was an eye opening experience.
The typical troubleshooting path with the b-tree system almost inevitably, and very quickly, led to a "rebuild the indexes" process which no one enjoyed.
The transactions on the SQL system pretty much eliminated that error path completely. Only actual on disk file corruption would lead to trouble. We could always (and did) post wrong data to the DB, but the DB did what it was told (right or wrong), but having the indexes lose sync with the as records was never a problem.
Its hard to describe how refreshing that was.
I'm sure there were b-tree systems with in built transaction systems to keep the base rows in sync with the indexes, but they were pretty late to the game and the SQL DBs started taking over.
I got tired of the paywall surrounding cabinet design so I created https://cabinet.mycnc.app. Just finished validating the door / drawer front gcode generator by milling a kitchen's worth of doors on a hobby grade CNC.
My thinking was that the money I saved doing the cabinets myself would be enough to pay for the Sienci Labs Longmill that I bought for the project.
Feel free drop me an e-mail on [nick] @ [the big G].com and we can discuss. :) Haven't seen ArduPilot before. Since I'm using ROS already, on of my goals is to lean as much as I can on that and avoid custom work where I can. Nav2 appears to be the most common "go from point A to B" framework in ROS-space.
I got tired of the money wall around cabinet design so I am working on https://cabinet.mycnc.app. Some very alpha features still but getting there.
Making cabinets is not that hard but the industry charges insane amounts of money for it. Since I have to make cabinets for two kitchens I invested in a Sienci Labs CNC so when the cabinets are done I'll have saved money and gotten a CNC out of it which I can then sell or use for other things.
I assume you are referring to Drax? That should come under biomass, which is 2.5% currently. I don't think the practice is great but that's clearly not where the energy is coming from. 87.7% of UK energy generation at this moment is coming from solar and wind.
- gcode sender and generator https://mycnc.app
- CNC simulator https://sim.mycnc.app
- Cabinet design with door/drawer designer https://cabinet.mycnc.app
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