Hardware Podcasts

377: Robot at the Park

Embedded.fm · 17 Jun 2021 · 55m · Episode 377

What this episode covers

Erin Kennedy, founder of Robot Missions and known as RobotGrrl, discusses her work building robots to clean plastic from shorelines and her involvement in the Hackaday Dream Team project to reduce ghost fishing gear. She details the technical challenges of her 'Bowie' robot, including navigating sand, using TensorFlow for debris detection, and the limitations of GPS versus AR markers for localization. Kennedy also shares insights on her unconventional learning path, her part-time role at an innovation lab, and her recent 'fog voxel' hobby project using piezo discs to create volumetric pixels.

Most relevant to

makers and hobbyists

Topics

Mentioned

Companies
Robot Missions, Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories, Adafruit, Hackaday, Supplyframe DesignLab
Products
Bowie Robot
Chips
Raspberry Pi, NVIDIA Jetson Nano
Tools
TensorFlow
Also
Hackaday Prize

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