Controlling the MicriSpotAI robot from scratch

Great work on the Spot Micro and thanks for open sourcing your work! I will really appreciate if you could point me to the location of a plate to mount an Nvidia Jetson Nano.

Hi, @FlorianWilk You did a really awesome job! I can't believe that you can model a Spot-like robot and get an nice achievement in control! There maybe has a "problem": It would be better if this code could support python2.7 and python3 simultaneously. But the grammar "@" in kinematics.py seems not supported in py2.7 which just means matrix multiplication. So, maybe replace the "@" by normal grammar is better? Or wait for my PR?

Best Regards!

I've been printing the covers of the SpotMicroAI and I found some issues while doing so.

This commit includes the .3mf files from Prusa Slicer to enable anyone using the software to print successfully without having to deal with the supports, all this work has been done.

Readme file included in the folder with the details.

Also updated a bit .gitignore file to avoid some operating systems temporal files.

I wrote a new version of the readme, be sure to read it over to make sure it's up to your standards. ;) The old version is in docs/oldReadMe.md to keep there as a reference for a while. All of the information in the old readme should be either in the new readme or in the readthedocs stuff.

Not sure if this counts as an issue, but I'm interested in knowing if anyone has actually got Spot Micro to work? I.e. to trot around, do a bit of turning etc. It would be nice to know what stage you are all at before I embark on building the thing.

Cheers,

Jack

after excute the first cell of script Kinematic/KinematicMovements.ipynb ,
error message as bellow:

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ModuleNotFoundError                       Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-2-905fcd046da8> in <module>
      6 import pybullet as p
      7 import pybullet_data
----> 8 from kinematics import Kinematic
      9 
     10 p.connect(p.DIRECT)

ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'kinematics'

Hey, so I had some problems with running the bullet python examples, the source of those problems is that thought the stl files have beenample moved, urdf files haven't really been updated (rplidar_main.stl is missing and some tags point to foot.stl in STL folder (which has been removed). I can make a PR to fix this issues if you want :slightly_smiling_face:

pybullet build time: Aug 29 2019 21:22:06 startThreads creating 1 threads. starting thread 0 started thread 0 argc=2 argv[0] = --unused argv[1] = --start_demo_name=Physics Server ExampleBrowserThreadFunc started X11 functions dynamically loaded using dlopen/dlsym OK! X11 functions dynamically loaded using dlopen/dlsym OK! Invalid GLX version: major 1, minor 2

Interesting... when running python3 gamepad.py
everything works. The Bot falls to the ground and keeps standing. When i use python 2.7: python gamepad.py The Bot falls down. The left and right legs have different positions. Why is that?!