[Cialug] ROS (Robot Operating System)

[Dan Hockey]

--- On Sat, 4/23/11, Todd Pierce <toddcpierce at gmail.com> wrote:

From: Todd Pierce <toddcpierce at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Cialug] ROS (Robot Operating System)
To: "Central Iowa Linux Users Group" <cialug at cialug.org>
Date: Saturday, April 23, 2011, 1:35 PM

Dan, 
 
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.



ATM it's just a plain Chumby still running the stock OS based on OE.

see here for info on the s2
http://www.parallax.com/go/s2

and here for the boebot
http://www.parallax.com/go/boebot
 

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.

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.   
 
Does yours have a range sensor?  

The s2 does


 
Are you much of a programmer?  

Not really, just a little Pbasic for the Basic stamps.

I did manage to install gcc and compile pure-ftpd on the Chumby itself! which is a
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:( 
-dan 

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