Summer '25 Diaries

I love ArchWiki.

  • Met an old friend from discord. People are real.
  • Met my mentor and fellow mentees.
  • Learnt to setup Qualysis Motion Capture. It was pretty cool and super high accuracy.
  • This week's task was to hover my drone on a ArUco marker, using ROS noetic and PX4. Got it done in time, I'm actually excited to work on hardware. Hoping to finish other tasks to start hardware.
  • ArchWiki helped a lot in integraating xbox offbrand controller in QGroundControl.

Why am I being assigned embedded task?

  • Met the prof, had a meet. He gave me 2 tasks continue my GPS denied research and second one which came from no where, make own FC
  • Discussed with mentor to try find some cheap FC and not dive into this.
  • Half of the week was spent in finding various FCs.
  • Finally boiled down to SpeedyBee Bluejay. But I still have to work on making a separate FC. Oops.
  • Started reading Parallel Tracking and Mapping. And summarised it in a blog.