Week Fifteen: Ticks and Talks
Servo drivers get a 100Hz ETS-backed control loop and I give a talk at Code Camp Wellington.
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Week Thirteen: Other People's Robots
The first community-built Beam Bots driver arrives with full uFactory xArm support, someone picks up the bb_policy proposal for learned behaviours, and Elixir 1.20 is knocking on the door.
Week Eleven: The Quiet Fortnight
Two quiet weeks while servo driver architecture gets reworked behind the scenes. Plus: Gus shows off the Nerves Starter Kit and gives Beam Bots a shoutout.
Week Nine: No Hardware Required
The SO-101 example app goes public with simulation mode, two gnarly servo bugs get squashed, and the dependency garden gets weeded.
Week Eight: New Digs
The Nerves community moves to their own Discord server, and Beam Bots follows.
Week Seven: Jido Enter Stage Left
A quieter week brings a new proposal for autonomous agents and goal-directed robot behaviour.
Week Six: Balance Bots and Better State Machines
Teaming up with Protolux on a Nerves balance bot, command categories with concurrency limits arrive, mechanically-linked joints get their own sensor, and the docs get a proper structure.
Week Five: Tasks Get Orchestrated, Roadmaps Get Transparent
Reactor sagas arrive for task orchestration, the SO-101 hardware lands, Feetech servo support begins, and the proposals repo lets you see what's coming.
Beyond Behaviour Trees: Task Orchestration the Elixir Way
Why we chose Reactor sagas over behaviour trees for robot task orchestration, and what that means for resilience and safety.
Week Four: Robots Learn to Not Hit Themselves
Collision detection arrives, commands become interruptible GenServers, IK solvers reject self-collisions, and Livebook gets a Parameters widget.