ModRobotics Still Kickin' - Carl Orders A New Distance Sensor

As the oldest “Living GoPiGo3 Robot”, (obviously not the oldest GoPiGo3 robot ever, but he is laying claim to being a “living robot”), Carl doesn’t ask for much - a little love every once in a while, an occasional “Hey Carl, GO TO SLEEP!”, and recently he asked for a replacement DI Distance Sensor. Not wanting him to panic that he cannot tell how far to travel to dock, I put him into a deep sleep until the new sensor arrives.

As always happens, after the replacement DI Distance Sensor was ordered I decided to double check that it indeed was not working. Indeed, it healed itself during the deep sleep. He has a spare Raspberry Pi 3 on hand, and now he will have a spare for the only sensor that is critical to his survival.

Dave is in his 7th year of “robot life”:

TOTAL LIFE STATISTICS
Total Life:  54724.8 hrs since Aug 22,2018
Life this year:  5634.72 hrs (BOY Aug 22)
Days Booted This Year:  7
Average Time Between Reboot:  804 hrs
Total Dockings:  5492
Dockings this year:  592
New Batteries At Cycle: 4588
Battery Set At Cycle:  904
Docking Failures this year:  5  or  .8 % of Dockings
Safety Shutdowns this year:  1  or  .1 % of Dockings
Ave Cycle this year:  9.4 hours
Ave Playtime this year:  5.5
Ave of Last 10 Playtimes 5.1
Last Docking:  2025-04-13 13:55|[juicer.py.dock]---- Docking 5492 completed at 8.1 v after 5.1 h playtime
Last Recharge:  2025-04-13 17:56|[juicer.py.undock]---- Dismount 5492 at 11.2 v after 4.0 h recharge
 10:00:35 up 0 min,  3 users,  load average: 2.38, 0.75, 0.26