Progress & Tech Logs
Latest updates related to the continual development and behind the scenes making of Bowie robot kits
Tech Log #025: AR overlay updating
The device simulator is now generating values and sending through MQTT. The values get displayed and updated live on the AR marker overlay without glitching. A few days ago making elements clickable was figured out. This will be useful when there's a need for buttons...
Tech Log #024: AR marker overlay with text
Added the AR overlay to the marker and added the javascript functions to change the text values on the overlay. Updated the system architecture diagram for the latest changes. The next step will be to have the data updated live by the MQTT data. Also, the MQTT...
Tech Log #023: AR Marker MQTT messages
AR markers triggering messages to send to the alternate (secure) MQTT server is working. The preliminary topic structure was chosen, which gives each marker type its own topic, and sends the state when it enters the view, still in the view, and exits the view. Next...
Tech Log #022: Lots – Mosquitto config, fifo bug, sha256, certbot, and browsers
It's been a jam-packed set of work sessions today to try to track down and figure out how to make this work. Following yesterday's trial and errors, the first thing to fix was making a new config for mosquitto. Then, regenerating the certificates, but this time with...
Tech Log #021: Running in a circle about ssl
A bit of running in a circle to get tls/ssl to work. It didn't work at first. Some of the issue was around the common name, and the lack of clarity about what that actually needs to be. Ran in to issues with the mosquitto config file not being updated, and trying to...
Tech Log #020: Secure websockets necessary
Since the AR view uses the camera, this means the connection has to be secure using ssl. MQTT was added to the AR code, but it can't communicate over websockets - it has to be secure websockets. The next step will be to generate certificates for the ssl connection.
Collaboration Logs
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Collab Log #002: Eng. design project plan
We received info from the Master's engineering design team about their project plan. Their project plan is very focused, which is good to hopefully provide a useful result. As well, it contains a stretch goal. Later this week, we will have a chance to meet and discuss...
Collab Log #001: Master’s engineering design
For University of Ottawa's Engineering Design course GNG5140, as a client we were paired with a group to work on something for Robot Missions. Today we had our first informational meeting — Meet the team! Here is some info about it from the Winter 2020 client package:...
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