better name coming soon...
Man vs. Machine Video (instagram reel) https://www.instagram.com/reel/DEIZAheSNjq/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
IMG_0191.mov
I'll likely write a blog post eventually(emphasis on the eventually) detailing the exact technical details. The current pipeline involves a calibration image to find the board, use of OpenCV and Google Tesseract OCV for board detection, a DFS(Depth First Search) algorithm, and a greedy(-ish?) algorithm(by word length) for path planning, and GCode for interfacing with the repurposed drawing machine.
If you would like to play the robot or have any ideas reach out to ekx@umich.edu