Robotics and Openmoko

Peter Harrison cheetah100 at gmail.com
Sat Jul 12 06:25:01 CEST 2008


I have a blog at:

http://www.devcentre.org

Under the "science" tab I've got all my Open Boat content, with articles
from conception to implementation. I've made some mistakes along the way,
some quite expensive - such as blowing up a motor controller by plugging it
into the wrong polarity, and I am still to have a 100% operational boat.
However, I'm not far away.

I've just been made redundant through restructuring so I have some time to
write up things in some more detail.

My next challenge is developing the magnetic compass hardware and software.
I know there are commercial compasses, but they are kind of expensive. I'm
going to use two hall effect sensors and see if I can write the software to
interpret the readings from these sensors.

I've also been writing a simulator which will be able to test the software.
And yes - I will be releasing all the source very soon. It was suggested I
add to the Wiki projects page as well - so I will. As you can see I have a
bit on my to do list now :)



On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 11:25 PM, Risto H. Kurppa <risto at kurppa.fi> wrote:

> Cool project! Indeed Freerunner makes some new applications possible
> as integrated wlan-gps-gprs-accelerometer-wifi device.
>
> Is there some web page or blog or feed or something I'd use to see how
> you're doing with the project? (I think this mailing list has way too
> much mails to actually be able to follow some discussion :)
>
> r
>
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