guess what THE BEARINGS AND SHAFTS GOT DELAYED!!!! YAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYY its fine.
we spent today CADing and printing new designs for both the leg inserts and one piece of the rod-ends, and i think they’re in a pretty good place (for not having the actual components needed). I also did some testing with the ball/cone detection and came to the conclusion that it simply sucks and just isn’t good enough, so I got Codex to give me suggestions for an overhaul and I picked which approach would be the best to go for. The demo it produced for me using new shape detection and differentiating objects from its surroundings (in camera space) was so bad that I’ve decided on a completely different approach altogether: ML!!
I got it to do another overhaul that would add a mode to the existing code that allowed camera snapshots to be taken and put in a folder with a press of a button on the controller. Then, it made a tool that could be run on my laptop that would bring the images up one by one, I would mark balls and cones on there, and then that data would be used to train an ONNX model (with ROCM acceleration on my Radeon 890M iGPU, of course) that could then be uploaded onto the Pi and ran as the new detection backend!! we’ll see if it works, cause I did all this at the end of the day and had no time to gather training data (of course i came up with this after two days of having very little to do).