<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><br><br><br><br>--- On <b>Sat, 4/23/11, Todd Pierce <i><toddcpierce@gmail.com></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Todd Pierce <toddcpierce@gmail.com><br>Subject: Re: [Cialug] ROS (Robot Operating System)<br>To: "Central Iowa Linux Users Group" <cialug@cialug.org><br>Date: Saturday, April 23, 2011, 1:35 PM<br><br><div id="yiv1982357442"><div>Dan, </div>
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<div>You have a Chumbot? I saw one of those on the cover of Linux Journal last fall. It looked cool as hell. I don't know the S2 or boebot too well, but something running Linux (like the Chumbot) would be a huge upgrade.</div>
<div><br><br>ATM it's just a plain Chumby still running the stock OS based on OE.<br><br>see here for info on the s2<br>http://www.parallax.com/go/s2<br><br>and here for the boebot<br>http://www.parallax.com/go/boebot<br> <br></div>
<div>Is the serial connection to the robot working? Is the WiFi connection working? Ultimately, one of those would have to be working to get any milage out of it.</div>
<div><br>I thought I could use the Chumbies wifi as a bridge to the parallax usb2serail adapter needed to talk to the s2, sort of a crude wifi controlled s2. <br> </div>
<div>Does yours have a range sensor? <br><br>The s2 does<br></div>
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<div>Are you much of a programmer? </div>
<div><br>Not really, just a little Pbasic for the Basic stamps.<br><br>I did manage to install gcc and compile pure-ftpd on the Chumby itself! which is a<br>major accomplishment for me since I never did get the arm cross-compile tool_chain to work on ubuntu, at least I couldn't get the rom-starter.img it generated to boot on the chumby:( <br>-dan <br></div></div><br></blockquote></td></tr></table>