This is absolutely perfect. I bought a second Steam Deck when the OLED came out. I was about to give my old Steam Deck away, but when I decided to go on the journey of making an AMR, I decided I better hold onto it. But the main reason I was holding onto it was because of something I saw at the Boston Dynamics booth at a robotics expo and the way they control their bots. I thought it'd be amazing to do that with my bot and a Steam Deck. I was definitely not thinking of using it as the main development workstation....but installing Ubuntu on it and using it as the full workstation is an amazing prospect. I will definitely be doing this. Thank you!
If only I could get a SDeck. I have a love for valve gear I just opened my 3rd and last Steam Controller. I think ill probably wait to see how the ASUS handheld is priced and stocked here in AUS. Nice one Josh! Only this morning thought, I wonder if Josh will drop a new vid soon. Cheers.
Lol I got side tracked for last few weeks and only have mono photo encoders. I checked my collection of printers to see if I was in luck but to avail. So ill have to buy some id say.
Oh I just got my second 2080ti to drop in my dev base! I still have all my old systems so I dusted of my x79 with a xeon and scrapped the old lappie I started with as it was too limited so ill use it for something else. got all the cuda gear sorted and just needing a case as Im all out of them. Its a beast.
so some controllers use 2.4G and some 433 or 915 frequencies. would this device have a long-range connection, or could it be extended some how to make say a 5 km link to the robot, especially if you are controlling via video.
Yeah so this particular device is an entire computer, so you'd communicate to the robot via WiFi or a cellular data link (or similar). But you can also control robots with the kinds of video controllers used for drones which are designed for long range.
@@ArticulatedRobotics I have been looking at these "SIYI MK32 Handheld Ground Station" to control my robot, but the steam deck offers an interesting alternative
Yeah I downloaded ROS on my SteamDeck the first week I had it. Perfect robot controller. Just need to learn how to program my robots and the controller to work with it lol
@@ArticulatedRobotics your channel is helping. I’m trying to teach myself python right now. Coding is my downfall. Professional cad designer and can do all the electronics stuff pretty easily. Just have a bunch of expensive paper weights though without knowing how to code. Haha
One of the main reasons I bought mine (other than gaming) is to use as a robot controller. I run podman on the built in linux environment with a ROS2 image of the built in 256 GB drive.
Nice! Yeah I haven't pushed too hard into running stuff in the built-in environment as I heard a few people say docker didn't play nicely, but maybe podman is a bit better?
@@ArticulatedRobotics yeah the headache is that the file system is locked so you have to unlock it to do the install of podman, and of course every time there is a system update it blows that away. So make yourself a little script that reinstalls all your packages that you need like podman so it’s a quick repair after system updates.
Hmm, while some material refers to it as a "handheld gaming computer", I think most of the marketing places very heavy emphasis on the gaming, especially as the default interface cannot be used for general computing tasks. But yes, they aren't hiding the fact that it is ultimately a handheld PC :)
