Image Recognition
In the Star Wars universe, pit droids are little foldable robots that perform automated repairs on spacecraft and the like. [Goran Vuksic] wanted a pit droid of his own, and reasoned that if he was going to go through the trouble of sanding and painting all the 3D printed components so they look like the real bot, he might as well add some smarts to it. While this droid won’t be fixing podracers anytime soon, its onboard Jetson Orin Nano Developer Kit does pack a considerable amount of processing under that dome. So there’s plenty of room to grow should he want to integrate more complex image recognition tasks. Continue reading “Star Wars Pit Droid Has A Jetson Brain” →