Home Brew Robotics Club Meeting - October 2023 - Viam Robotics with Hazal Mestci
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00:31:13 charlotte: Viam robotics was the best thing at Roscon! Hehe
00:31:29 charlotte: (I’m charlotte I do community at Viam)
00:31:50 fergs: https://www.robotandchisel.com/2023/1...
00:31:57 charlotte: Reacted to "https://www.robotand…" with ❤️
00:32:10 Sean Allaband: Robot News: https://news.stanford.edu/2023/10/04/...
00:51:26 HBRC Host: Arduino GIGA Display Shield https://store-usa.arduino.cc/products...
00:52:36 Jim D: Maker Faire Bay Area pictures: https://photos.app.goo.gl/CYtwZxbG2MZ...
01:04:34 HBRC Host: The software platform for smart machineshttps://www.viam.com/
01:05:00 HBRC Host: Configure a SCUTTLE Robothttps://docs.viam.com/tutorials/confi...
01:05:17 HBRC Host: Tipsy: Create an Autonomous Drink Carrying Robothttps://docs.viam.com/tutorials/proje...
01:23:11 Dillo: Thanks for the demo, Hazel. VIAM had a booth at ROSCON. I chatted with the team there.
01:25:08 Matt Vella (Viam): Viam-server and Viam SDK code can function offline (all on robot) or SDK can securely connect via webRTC/grpc.
01:25:34 Matt Vella (Viam): Pay per usage for cloud services
01:25:41 Matt Vella (Viam): All on robot is open source and free
01:26:05 Niko Papadopoulos: https://www.viam.com/product/pricing
01:28:06 Arielle Mella (Viam Robotics): Here’s a full tutorial on this project with a material list (sourced from scuttle and generic hardware) https://docs.viam.com/tutorials/proje...
01:30:25 George Taylor: How about a two wheeled balance bot?
01:30:36 Matt Vella (Viam): Code generated is boilerplate to get you started, no need to use the sample code… all is based on grpc APIs/SDK wrappers
01:31:08 Hazal Mestci: https://hackaday.io/project/191676-sc...
01:33:11 Matt Vella (Viam): Viam is also completely extensible via our Resource Registry - community contributed components and services, or add/contribute your own
01:33:25 HBRC Host: Viam Roverhttps://www.viam.com/resources/rover
01:34:00 Michael Wimble: Is the api documented so that I can write code to use my own motor controller instead of your built in code?
01:34:41 Matt Vella (Viam): Absolutely https://docs.viam.com/ - see https://docs.viam.com/components/ and https://docs.viam.com/services/
01:34:49 Michael Wimble: Reacted to "Absolutely https://d…" with 👌
01:34:56 Matt Vella (Viam): You can also create your own APIs
01:35:19 Arielle Mella (Viam Robotics): You configure and manage modular resources the same way as built-in resources and use the same APIs. https://docs.viam.com/modular-resources/
01:35:46 Matt Vella (Viam): For example I created a speech module for text to speech and speech to text and it has its own API - someone else could create another model of “speech” that uses that API
01:37:21 Michael Wimble: I’d like to see Camp use this to program his smart cart during our Tuesday night SIG discussions
01:38:13 HBRC InOrbit: Reacted to "I’d like to see Camp..." with 👍
01:38:32 Michael Wimble: I’ll check out the functions. This looks pretty slick. What is the business model - what keeps you open in a year?
01:38:57 Matt Vella (Viam): Consumption based pricing for cloud services - data storage, cloud SLAM, ML model training, etc
01:39:07 Matt Vella (Viam): All optional
01:39:08 Michael Wimble: Reacted to "Consumption based pr…" with 👌
01:39:32 Hazal Mestci: https://docs.viam.com/services/
01:40:28 osman eralp: Interesting presentation. Çok teşekkür ederiz Hazal.
01:40:43 Dan’s iPhone: Teşekkürler, Hazal !!
01:41:10 Arielle Mella (Viam Robotics): @Michael Wimble we also have customers, if you’d like to read some of the publicly available profiles check this out https://www.viam.com/customers
01:41:21 George Taylor: How about a arm robot with multiple joints using servo motors handling pinchers or tools.
01:42:52 Matt Vella (Viam): We do have a motion planning service that can plan for any arm including ones you define with URDF
01:44:10 Matt Vella (Viam): We are using the motion planning service for this claw game but its all based on a defined frame system and arm kinematics
01:45:44 HBRC Host: https://www.robotshop.com/products/uf...
01:45:50 Dillo: Link to some ROSCON pics:https://drive.google.com/drive/folder...
01:46:08 Hazal Mestci: https://docs.viam.com/tutorials/servi...
01:46:59 Hazal Mestci: https://www.viam.com/blog?categories=...