Tony is a Geek

 UPDATE: okay, as previously mentioned I spent a little bit of time ( on a Saturday evening ) looking to use a Raspberry Pi PICO W and a Robo Pico board, along with a very old Dr.Who K9 robot toy to create a functioning "modern day" object avoidance detection robot.  No rocket science going on here, execpt me being me, I wanted to use JavaScript and NOT Python to control everything. Why JavaScript? Well, when coding for Arduino you are using C.  The cleanest and most sensible coding language to use ( ignore all that modern day OOP rubbish that people attempted to shove on/around it - that just ruined it, sometimes Software Architect are NOT right & if you accept that, you then chose what is best for the job, rather than forcing everything to fit what you know, bit of a life lesson there, me's thinks ) for the task at hand whilst running on constrained embedded devices.  Well, I'm not using an Arduino atm, however, I might, so to make the "switch" easier...

Back in mid-December 2023, I made a statement , more for myself than anything in an attempt to "force myself" to put aside some time for "me" and do something I want/need to do. Did I do it? Did I b*ll*x.  Why not?  well, you guessed it. Yep, those underpaying, whip cracking, slave masters that I am forced to serve insisted that I dedicate my time to earn them more mulla. sigh.  So, I wrote the beginnings of an application that will become a COrE system that was just enough for me to hand-over to 3-4 other people to continue with.  I think they'll take it further with minimal guidance from myself and that will "free me up" to at least get some "me" time. Saying that, it took until 6pm on a Saturday in mid-January for me to get around to starting what I wanted to do - and boy was it really small BABY steps, but at least I'm forcing the issue on myself.  Why did it take so long? well, I got a tiny bit distracted by the dimensional blurs goi...

After owning a couple of K9 toy robot dogs for about 10 years.... and never really getting anywhere with them - okay, that's a little unfair, I did previously fit a Pi W with a MotoZero 4xDC motor controller board into one of them, but didn't progress much further.  One of them moved around onto different shelves, whereas the "more complete" and original one stayed as a shelf-ornament. That is until this week... this was the week when the stars aligned and the universe was at the point where it needed to be.  I received, in the post, the Cytron.io ROBO PICO.  I say, I received, like it was just randomly sent to me - no, it wasn't I bought & paid for it, with my own money, from ThePiHut.com The board is quite nifty & pretty much what I've been wanting for a Raspberry Pi based board since the days when I used to use Arduino boards from DFRobot.com - now, we ARE going back 8years or more and that robot still exists, currently a bit dusty, but sitting on...