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USAi Labs AUDACITY
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## Your rover's name ([your name](github.com/yourgithubhandle))
## USAi Labs AUDACITY ([JHPHELAN](github.com/JHPHELAN))

| <image src="../images/rover-climbing.jpg" height="150"> <image src="../images/rover-silver.png" height="150"> |
| <image src="images/AUDACITY/Houston-Robotics-Fidelity cropped.jpg" height="150"> <image src="images/AUDACITY/IMG_4751.JPG" height="150"> <image src="images/AUDACITY/IMG_3927.JPG" height="150"> <image src="images/AUDACITY/IMG_3931.JPG" height="150"> |
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| [![AUDACITY 01 video](https://img.youtube.com/vi/n0Rx8EbABIY/0.jpg)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0Rx8EbABIY) |

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<summary>Expand to learn more about this build!</summary>

Add whatever information about your build you'd like to share here!
### Background
* Started August 2019 as soon as we heard about the release of the NASA-JPL Open Source Rover
* Named first version "Fidelity" to be as close to the NASA-JPL version as possible
* Once initial parts had arrived, had a "part picking party"
* - with instructions from the manual for various sub-assemblies passed out, ziplock bagged & labeled
* Sub-assemblies then assembled in groups
* Had first roll-out almost exactly 1 year later after multiple delays, modifications, and frustrations as seen in .mp4 above

### Modifications
* New version of rover named "AUDACITY" to be as boldly upgraded as possible to ultimately be autonomous
* Raspberry Pi 3 >> Raspberry Pi 4b 4GB. Perhaps later >> Jetson NANO to permit onboard AI "on the edge"
* Raspbian >> Ubuntu 20.04
* hand-coded Python >> ROS >> ROS2 Foxy
* Upgraded PCB. Looking forward to Rev F!
* Upgraded drive & steering motors
* Custom front/back acrylic panels
* Emergency "Bop to Stop" switch. Abandoned to free up room
* Key fob remote power "Kill Switch" for range safety.
* - to substitue RoboClaw e-stop pins in future to stop motors but not CPU
* Arduino driven LED "head" >> onboard LCD monitor - work in progress
* Addition of cameras: Picamera, USB camera, Intel RealSense D450 Depthcamera, OAK-D Depthcamera |
* - all works in progress and fraught with frustrations
* Front bright LED "headlights" wired in parallel with drive motors. Since polarity matters, only on when driving forward
* Plan steering motors >> servos at some point

### External links
1. [USAi Labs and Houston Community College First rollout of rover](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Wdgss0q63s)

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