Creating code, making robots and having fun!
Hello and welcome to another Burf Update. July was a month of the robots telling me I was wrong.Six bugs found by watching a robot move, one found by listening to it not move — and every singleone of them had passed a test first. InMoov — a real ROS2 driverAfter months of nothing to [ ]
Hello again. Last month was about getting the foundations in shape; this month was about wheels turning and maps building. June was a hardware month — the kind where you spend an evening with a multimeter and a servo that s spinning the wrong way, and then suddenly a robot does the thing. The wheelchair robot [ ]
Hello and welcome to another Burf Update. Two months have passed since my last post, and for once I can say the gap is because I ve actually been building things rather than just thinking about them. Burf PlatformBack in March, I admitted I hadn t properly defined what the Platform was or what problem it solved. [ ]
Hello and welcome to another Burf Update. So, as usual, my ability to focus on a single thing has gone Pete Tong. In the last edition, I was set on getting the Platform out there and seeing if it has legs. Instead, I purchased some new toys! iPAL Humanoid Companion Robot The first interesting addition [ ]
Hello and welcome to another Burf Update. I have been super busy trying to get the first version of The Platform out to see if the idea has legs. Hopefully by next month I should know if it does. The PlatformFormerly known as Burf Platform—a name that didn’t make much sense—the Platform is a robotics [ ]
Hello and welcome to another Burf Update. I hope everyone had an amazing Christmas and an epic New Year. The Christmas period rushed through at lightning speed, but was enjoyable. In this edition, I hope to map out what I plan to do in 2026. Burf RoboticsBurf Robotics is the key focus for 2026 in [ ]
Hello and welcome to another Burf Update, I hope everyone is enjoying the run up to Christmas and that special time off with loved ones. Around this time I start to work out what I have achieved this year. OLO RoboticsFormally BOW, I am chuffed to announce that I am contracting for them 1 day [ ]
Hello and welcome to another Burf Update — this one’s a little different, and honestly, a bit sad. I can’t imagine there’ll be much robotics content in this one… but let’s see 🙂 CompsoftSadly, I (along with many others) have been made redundant from Compsoft. I’d just returned from my holiday when — boom — [ ]
Hello and welcome to another Burf Update, I struggled for a bit to pick a title for this edition due to the range of robotic things I have done over the last month. I have certainly spent a lot of time doing robotics. Gwiz UpdateI have only spent a few hours on the Gwiz, I [ ]
Hello and welcome to another Burf update! Sadly, I didn’t get a chance to publish a July post — it’s been full throttle on the robotics front. This year is really shaping up to be a robotics-heavy one, and I’m loving it. MTC: Robotics and Automation EventWe attended the event, and the second InMoov robot [ ]