First Products and SEO

As mentioned previously, the vital parts of AMOS will be released as products in their own right in the coming months, leading up to the release of the entire robot in the summer of 2020. The first of these was the waterproof housing that was built for the Raspberry Pi camera that AMOS uses:

This product was called the WeatherBox, and a link to its store location can be found here: https://www.innaturerobotics.com/product-page/weatherbox-for-raspberry-pi-camera-v2 This product was actually split into two different models, one with the Raspberry Pi v2 camera and cable included (WeatherBox-CAM) and one without.

The second was the 16-bit, variable gain A to D board that was described last week. It was populated with all of the necessary components, and all four channels and gain settings were successfully tested out with a little Arduino program and circuit that I made for that purpose:

This one was called the ADS1115-BRVG and its product page can be found here: https://www.innaturerobotics.com/product-page/ads1115-variable-gainboard.

Since the website's SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is still sub-optimal, I'm reading some tutorials on how to get your webpage to show up higher in search page rankings. Apparently there is something like 200 different parameters that Google considers in these rankings. Right now I'm just starting out; trying to make sure all the pages on the website have suitable titles and descriptive text. One thing that was encouraging today, was that when I searched for "nature robotics" with the quotation marks on Google, www.innaturerobotics.com was the first link. Without the quotation marks, it was on page 2, 14th place overall. Those high rankings are probably biased by my location however, as I read that Google ranks local businesses higher.

This coming week I would like to try some calibration experiments on the IMU (Inertial Measurement Unit) and current draw sensor. I suspect that both of these are affected somewhat by temperature, so I'll try heating them up in a box and then put them outside to cool slowly for an hour or two, to see how the outputs change. The magnetometers on the IMU should also be calibrated more carefully than what I did previously by hand. Probably a motor turning apparatus, similar to what I have used before at Measurand would work well.