Hello and welcome to another Burf Update, I hope everyone is enjoying the festive season. I have always been a big kid and especially love Christmas. It’s also a time to reflect and set new goals for next year.

Burf.co
As of the 10th of December, Burf.co has had 3,645,694 searches. The current breakdown shows that I need to focus on file searches. I think Burf.co will change next year to something more useful.

Inmoov Robot
Not a lot has happened in the last month; however, work has started on repairing the main InMoov robot, and parts have been ordered for the second one. I am trying to get back into it.

Camper Van
Camping with the new partner was awesome, and we plan to do a lot more next year. There is not a lot to say on the technical front.

Electric Motorbike
Parked

Rover Robot / ROS2
So I have completed the online ROS2 course to make a rover that uses SLAM Toolbox, Nav2, etc. I need to finish building the actual robot but that’s only a few hours of work. This has been my main focus over the last few weeks. ROS2 isn’t easy to learn but I am slowly getting there. I plan to do a self-driving and a robotic arm ROS2 project

Gwiz
Yup, I have a new Gwiz! I have never owned the same car more than once let alone 3 times. I got a brilliant deal and hope to do some very cool stuff with it. This all kinda links in with ROS2 / Burf.co future plans

Electric Wheelchair
So I wrote some better software for this ready to be used as a robotics platform.

ChatGPT / AI
I have started using ChatGPT a bit through work. This has led me to learn Azure AI services and all sorts, which is really interesting. As said this is mainly for work however it gets me thinking about how I may use it for my robotics projects.

Governor
There is so much I want to do in life that I took the hard decision of resigning as a Governor. I did manage for nearly 2 years which isn’t too bad however things were ramping up and I didn’t have the bandwidth sadly.

Brilliant Math App
I finally bought a membership to this app and have been doing a bit of maths every day for a couple of weeks. I am still really enjoying it. I hope this will help me with my robotics.

Goals for the end of the year
With only a few weeks of the year left, how am I doing against my goals?

• Stay around 80-82KG (DONE, currently 81)
• Camp at least 1 more time this year in the VW (DONE in October and planned one in December)
• Finish the YouTube robotics series of videos (DONE, finished this week)
• Get the remote wheelchair working (DONE)
• Stay on top of being a governor (Decided to resign)
• Re-start the maths learning (DONE)

Based on the above, I would say I am doing really well. I feel like I am in a good headspace, I am actively learning and focusing on Robotics. Work and home life are good, all I need to do now is keep it that way.

I will try and do another post before the end of the year listing all the things I have achieved this year and then start figuring out plans for next year.