2021-02-19, 08:59 AM
(2021-02-18, 10:58 AM)richarddaneel Wrote: Hi Guys
I would have preferred to do this via private mail as the basic nature of my questions are a bit embarrassing.
Hey Richard, it's a basic human right to ask beginner's questions; many others will benefit from answers to questions you had the courage to ask!
I'd stick to the latest software on the rpi4 for now, and not worry about those warnings at this stage; there are a few more important things to start with.
From your description and first screendump ('imu=0') I would deduce you don't have an IMU yet. Without that piece of sensor hardware, that needs to plug into the raspberry gpio bus, pypilot will not function. You can buy one ready-made at pypilot.org or rig up one yourself if you are a bit confident with electronics.
Second, you say you have a pololu motor controller. But between that and the raspberry, there needs to sit an arduino with a specific piece of software running on it. It's a bit confusing at first, but in pypilot parlour that arduino is considered to be part of the motor controller. This combination, shall we call it 'pypilot motor controller', can also be bought at pypilot.org. Many on this forum are into electronics and build it themselves, but unless you have a background in this, I would not recommend to venture into it.
Hope this helps,
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