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For the last 2 days I've been trying to create a skill for Openclaw that would allow traditional control of the Adeept Tank's robot arm (a small open source toy tank that looks like a bomb disposal robot).

ASTRA HAS BEEN UTTER SHIT.

It is much more expensive than Sol 5.6 Medium / High and did nothing but write unit tests and junk code, despite having access to the vendor original source, an API, and the full tank specs.

Failure Examples:

* In two instances had the direction of the servos wrong.

* Calculated the maximum extent of the gripper wrong, and the closure, so it didn't grip.

* Code failed to take into account the gripper requires continuous torque when lifting a pair of socks, so couldn't lift.

* Failed to actually start physical testing more than opening and closing the gripper, and that was when I asked about progress.

* Code failed quite spectacularly to calculate camera gimbal extent range correctly.

* Code failed to use the ultrasonic in range to target until I pointed it out, the skill also didn't advise gimbal angle adjustment to correct range overshoot to the wall behind a small object.

The test environment has both an onboard ultrasonic for distance, onboard camera, and a bird eyes view camera (birds eyes only while training).

I've stopped using Astra Low (default) and gone back to Sol 5.6 low/medium/high for the training, it's cheaper and now I'm back to fine tuning, after it had to redo large chunk of the gripper/arm code and prevent unnecessary hard stop code kicking in based on the wrong profiling.

It's cost me around 1000 to 1250 credits (£50), burnt in around 2 hours, looking mostly at recorded video, and photos, and writing bad code based on bad assumptions. I've also burnt through regular Plus 5 hour quota in about 30-45 minutes with it.

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