This week, I did more work on the AI YOLO model on the golf cart, but I decided to move away from that a little bit and focus on some of the more mechanical aspects of the project. I wired up a simple breadboard circuit with an Arduino and the BTS7960 motor driver (capable of 49 amps continuous, which I am skeptical about) which is then wired up to a 30a 12v power supply and the giant steering motor.

Intro As Artificial Intelligence expands and continues to get more and more involved in aspects of daily life, it is only a matter of time until it gets involved in mainstream news feeds… so I sped things up and did it myself. Introducing The Neural Times, your “Only source of news, curated daily” The Neural Times is uses locally run Large Language Models (LLMs) and locally run Stable Diffusion (for image generation) to create satirical takes on current events worldwide.

With the annual MATE ROV competition all finished up, Sunk Robotics placed 3rd worldwide in terms of robotics, and 9th overall including the marketing and advertising campaigns. A good run indeed. Our robot performed well, although reliability is our priority for next year’s attempt. A New Competition Although MATE ROV offers its well-known underwater competition, there are other events they host as well. This year, Matty Harris and I undertook a secondary challenge, known as the 2024 Ocean Exploration Video Challenge (OER) where teams must create custom Artificial Intelligence models that can be used to identify underwater species from a provided video.