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  1. 5 mo ago

    Magic SmokeBB-0038aliceplante.substack.comCurator pick

    Building robots with Claude: a rover that hit trees, and the fixes that followed

    Alice Plante had Claude write the code and choose actions for a SunFounder PiCar-X on a Raspberry Pi 5 and a FrodoBots Earth Rover. The Earth Rover's commands went through a cloud relay while Opus took about ten seconds to answer, and it drove into trees. A small binary on the rover cut command latency to under 10 ms.

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