Loy
loybeek.bsky.social
Loy
@loybeek.bsky.social
l0y.nl | Dad | Robotics at aigro.nl | RoboCup@Home @TechUnited | scout at scoutingboxtel.nl | Interested layman in anything. Mastodon:
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Wat is dat waar die kat op zit? Ik kan alleen een boterham zien.

(Is boekje van een pizzeria/shoarmatent)
September 26, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Are we at the peak now? On on the downslope already perhaps? Maybe we'll eventually get to that plateau when those factories are needed
September 12, 2025 at 4:53 AM
Testing the IP67 rating too🌦️. Good thing it can work on its own so I can pick the robot up again when it loops back through the next row while I shelter from the rain 😅
August 1, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Field day with #AIgro #robotics #agriculture. Robot is taking pictures to predict yield and spot diseases, plagues etc.
August 1, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Made this a little while back, a cumulative histogram (I switched the legenda though, oops). Buying electricity to boil COP1 heat water is almost never cheaper than gas, but boiling water with gas is almost never cheaper than selling kWhs for market price (no salderen).
May 25, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Het seizoen is weer begonnen: negatieve energieprijzen vandaag! Als het goed is gaat de omvormer zelf uit.
Als we de e-boiler (die we aan het overwegen zijn) erbij hadden dan was dit een perfect moment om die op te laden.
April 27, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Debugging in the rain... #robotics
April 17, 2025 at 1:48 PM
@frank.boerman.dev Mag ik een feature-request doen voor data.boerman.dev? Namelijk voor een (cumulatief) histogram van energieprijzen. Geeft weer hoeveel % van de tijd de energieprijzen onder/boven een x bedrag zitten.
Ik heb zelf zitten klooien en kwam op deze, maar kan mooier & live in Grafana:-)
April 14, 2025 at 8:29 PM
I needed more right hands to debug my quaternion math #robotics
April 3, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Screenshot from a linked article.
A regular fdm 3D printer actually works fine upside down! Not sure about sideways...
February 27, 2025 at 3:17 PM
@spacecowboyspod.bsky.social kijk eens wat er in de post zat!
February 11, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Made it to #FOSDEM 2025 . I hope to attend the robotics devroom. It's all new to me so very curious
February 2, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Triggering a camera from precise GPS timestamps, eventually... Hooking it up to a plain old 9V battery is a good debugging tool to see if I have the camera configured correctly though #robotics
January 27, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Some bugs are indeed shallow.
"Huh, our robot seems to be driving in the ocean near Somalia?"
December 4, 2024 at 9:43 AM
Could hack a bit more on my old Neato robot. Got the laser going, can joystick it a bit, all #ros2 in Docker. In parallel setting up a Raspberry Pi 4, on cordless drill battery, with #NixOS, to run this on eventually. Everything all at once...
November 27, 2024 at 9:16 PM
Success! Battery hooked up, robot boots up, can access Serial console, turn on laser rangefinder and get measurements.

Robot hasn't run in years so the LRF sounds uh, chunky. But seems to work. Now for some motors...
November 19, 2024 at 8:31 PM
Well I'll be damned, snipping off the battery connector and hooking that straight up to the battery actually makes the lights on the robot turn on.

Wago clamps to the rescue!
November 19, 2024 at 8:14 PM
LOL, so apparently ⅓ of the batteries in my old Neato botvac is just dead weight.

I'm trying to replace this dead battery with a Makita cordless drill battery for more juice and easy swapping.
November 19, 2024 at 7:46 PM
A little excursion with my #scouts group. To a stage effects company that happens to be based in town 🤩
November 15, 2024 at 7:56 PM
Well, that wasn't too hard in the end: set network_mode=host and privileged=true. Then wire up the CAN busses to essentially loop back, here via an Odrive. It works!
November 14, 2024 at 7:46 AM
I made a thing: wood panels on our chimney in the living room. A while back already and I finally updated my website with a write-up: l0y.nl/projects/chi...
November 12, 2024 at 10:29 PM