Everyone who has been paying attention knows that I have been trying to get various display modules working with the GoPiGo-3 with indifferent success, primarily due to the fact that I’ve been sending in boys to do men’s jobs.
I’ve decided it’s time to get REAL tools to do the job.
A decent temperature controlled, calibratable, ESD-safe soldering station.
All the right tools if your GoPiGo3 suddenly stops detecting/communicating with I2C sensors, like Humble Dave’s Pi5 4GB board. He had to be reincarnated as Kilted-Dave on a “lowly” Pi4 and throw away his ROS 2 vision mapping and navigating aspirations. (“Dave” code requires I2C to access his current sensor.)
I just reincarnated that “no I2C Pi5” board with a Raspberry Pi5 M.2 HAT+ and an official Raspberry Pi NVMe 256GB SSD as “RPi5Desk”. Needed a 16GB RPi 5 and an SSD for playing with OpenMind’s OM1 “robot mind”, but I’m not willing to invest in another RPi that will end up sitting on my desk unused.
I’m still building out a more “professional” development lab to work on my hardware/software projects.
The idea is to stop faffing around with half-baked tools and procedures that produce questionable results at best and pure garbage as a general rule.
IMHO, a large part of the problems I have been experiencing are due to my trying to do sophisticated research using McGyvvered tools, cheap shortcuts, and poor methodologies.
Frustration reigns supreme and I end up blowing chips due to my ham-handed methods.
I decided “ this! It’s time to get with the program and stop faffing around.”
This isn’t quick or easy, (tools shipped from China take forever to arrive), but it needs to be done if I’m going to make any real progress.
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