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This wiki is organized by epics. Tech details (lab notes) are on the gdrive.
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"GET A JOB" EPIC. I started this epic in Sept 2024:
- The goal
- Demo deployments (on ZiptieAI.com/org/net)
- 1 APIs / API docs (Gdrive)
- 2 AWS (Gdrive)
- 3 Code (Gdrive) (Git/Swagger/JavaScript/Python/CICD)
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AI DRONE EPICS. I worked on epics 1-8 from Sept 2023 to Sept 2024 focusing on:
- General AI
- Drone simulation
- FPV and Pixhawk drone builds
- Drone AI / autonomous flight (I flight tested a Pixhawk drone with Jetson Nano using object recogition with Pymavlink for flight control inputs)
New stuff:
- 24.1114 Demo deployment https://django.ziptieai.net (#120) (Django on EC2 with ziptieai.net subdomain and SSL)
- 24.1113 Demo deployment https://free.ziptieai.net #234 (EC2 nodejs with ziptieai.net subdoman and SSL)
- 24.1105 Excellent NextJS/React from Traversy (1_#106_(OK)_nextjs_react_TRAVERSY_v01_24.1104.docx).
- 24.1102 Great nestjs tutorial (1_#101_(OK)_nestjs_v02_24.1102.docx) from Dave Gray, all worked.
- 24.1029 Sandbox with Swagger, LightSail (AWS), npm, etc (swagger.ziptieAI.net/api-docs (sandbox) #227b).
- 24.1022 Kalman tutorial (WIP)
I've never found a big-picture step-by-step overview of how to get started building and flying (autonomous AI) drones. The closest thing I found was the original Youtube playlist that was the starting point for SITL (simulation). It took me almost 2 months to get through that simulation and document all the details (the Youtube videos were almost 5 years old; there were a lot of problems). But it was a start.
After that I (and more importantly Youtube AI algorithms) scoured Youtube for any related demos that I could get working (determining what "related" was was not easy). I documented what I did in the docx's (Word files) and put them on the gdrive. I created this Wiki as a big-picture overview (of the core instructions in the docx's). Low-level hands-on experience was critical for understanding the big picture concepts. I reorganized this Wiki at least 20 times (I use wiki because I can easily reorganize the wiki site and its very easy to use).
This ecosystem (Youtube demos, docx's, Wiki, along with Youtube/Google AI search and sites like StackOverflow) made it possible for a lone wolf like myself to succeed in getting all of this running. As for building actual drones, Amazon with its one-day delivery, product rating system, and AI search algorithms was key. All-in-all it was a lot more of a challenge than you would think just by looking at this rough-draft wiki and the gdrive docx's (basically rough lab notes that provide very accurate and detailed instructions).
Note: Lab notes are not user docs. And transforming them into user docs takes time. After hacking away at some strange problem and documenting everything I did in docx lab notes (maybe for several days), separating the wheat (what fixed the problem) from the chaff (without losing a single grain of invaluable wheat) is not simple. This invariably involves replicating the original tests. I have replicated the core SITL doc (10.1) instructions on a clean Linux partition at least 5 times. The effort to replicate the build process for an autonomous AI drone is (at least for now) is currently not planned.