SPI robot + Jetson Nano 2 GB

Yes variety and options is nice :slight_smile:

I haven’t used the SM-10 yet. The hobby servo that I showed above is designed for a RC helicopter. I have used it before for pan tilt without a problem. They of course will never have the performance of the higher performance Dynamixel servos. Hobby servos use PWM to control the position and will jitter if the PWM is software created rather than a hardware PWN from a timer that has precise timing. As I haven’t used Jeston Nano I don’t know if it has hardware tiemrs, I do know on RPi they use a work around using DMA to create clean PWM.

I find more problem with the RPi camera module it’s self. It’s a pin hold camera meaning it has a very small lens that lets in a very small amount of light and a very small sensor that captures a very small amount of the light let in meaning it needs longer exposure times which causing a lot of blurring for a moving robot and poor computer vision (the RPi cam v2 seems to worse than the original version). I am thinking about paying the extra money and getting the RPi HD cam that has much bigger lens and sensor making for shorter exposure times.

One of the uni students that I partnered with during a comp has now finished his degree and is working in industry building robots. The company he works for uses the Flir Blackfly for robotics. It has a big lens and sensor in the smallest package possible but it also has a price tag to match :frowning: