My robotics and AI projects, including the development of Carbot - an autonomous RC car project.
October 2025: “Interactive Imitation Learning” Previously, I had built Carbot to collect data while in ROV mode — capturing images, then processing them through a CNN in an attempt at behavioral cloning. It didn’t work well at all. Most of...
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For the last several months I have started down a different path with Carbot. I’m working out what it will take to make it into an Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV). The reason for this is pretty straight forward, In my...
Read more →Carbot continues to grow. Now I have a full ROV mode available. It’s rather amusing because it really is an Android phone on top of a remote control car. The phone talks to an Aduino via BLE to control the...
Read more →I have been working on debuggin how Carbot can see and how to get the servo outputs to work right. In this post I wanted to explain what I had to do to get this to work. In this post,...
Read more →In the last six months, I’ve made considerable progress on Carbot. It is now ready for testing and iteration. There were several key factors that contributed to this success, which I’ll discuss before explaining how it works. Key Factors Behind...
Read more →Goal! To get ready for Summer The real purpose of Carbot is to give me and my son something to work on over the summer. Once he is out of school I will have less time to figure things out....
Read more →Success! I have created an Android app that controls the car That was the whole goal of this step. Can I create an Android app so my phone can run the car? The answer is yes and it was really...
Read more →How to make machines learn I have been taking machine learning and Tensor flow classes for the last month. I think I now have a plan for how to put Carbot together. However, one class really stood out for me....
Read more →Backstory I am very interested in machine vision. I always have been and when I ran across Adam the CEO of Aim.Vision I was very inspired how he had been turning excavators into construction robots using tensor flow and other...
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