Looking at crèche/childminder options and trying to figure out what the going rate is.
What are ye paying monthly, how many days a week, and roughly what is it after NCS?
Trying to figure out if I should double the mortgage payment in the budget or just start renting a room or selling feet pics now.
I’ve got a Segway Navimow X350 and I’m approximately one mildly inconvenient software update or mower stuck away from introducing it to the business end of a sledgehammer.
Bought it new in January for about €3,100. The garden is roughly 3,000 sqm of grass on a 1 acre plot. So far I’ve only mapped about 790 sqm because I got behind earlier in the year and the rest turned into what can only be described as a nature reserve. Rather than asking the poor robot to fight through shoulder high jungle, I’m leaving that until later in the year when the grass calms down.
The mapped area is split into three sections of roughly 200 sqm, 100 sqm, and 300 sqm. They’re separated by loose gravel with raised kerbs between them. I’ve also mapped about 190 sqm at the entrance to the rear garden, which eventually leads to another 2,200 sqm that still needs to be added.
The problem? This thing spends more time stranded than a Victorian explorer.
It constantly gets beached on the kerbs, falls off the edges, or decides gravel is apparently lava.
Things I’ve tried so far:
Swapped the standard antenna for an RTK antenna.
Weirdly, that actually made it less likely to fall off the kerbs.
Traction Control on and off. I think on is slightly better.
Obstacle Avoidance on and off. Again, on seems better.
Added a VisionFence Off Zone around the gravel areas.
The really frustrating part is that it used to cross the gravel. It wasn’t graceful. It would spend a minute reversing, turning, questioning its life choices, and eventually make it through. Over the last month, though, it just gives up. It’ll wiggle around for a bit, throw in the towel, and sit there waiting for rescue like it’s expecting the life guards to helicopter in.
Has anyone actually solved this, or have I accidentally spent €3,100 on the world’s most expensive garden ornament?
Any settings, firmware changes, or tricks I’m missing before I book this thing into a rage room?