🪖 War Stories
Every robotics project has its battle scars — moments when everything broke, but creative thinking brought it back to life.
Here are the most memorable problem-solving moments from the LIMO Pro + MyCobot + YOLO journey.
💥 The Workspace Catastrophe
The Situation:
In week one, I built a test node inside the robot’s source workspace and ran colcon build.
This overwrote factory configs, corrupted files, and left the LIMO Pro unbootable.
The Fix:
- Requested a pre-flashed SD card from the manufacturer.
- Switched to a clean external workspace for all future development.
Lesson Learned
Treat the vendor’s source workspace like read-only firmware — never modify it directly.
🔌 The MyCobot USB Failure
The Situation:
The MyCobot arm’s USB control board stopped working. A replacement was expensive and would take weeks.
The Fix:
- Flashed the arm firmware for Wi-Fi mode.
- Wrote auto-IP detection in
full_system.launch.pyto connect instantly on startup. - Standardized Wi-Fi SSID/Password: