Robotics and Openmoko

[steve]

We need Openmoko robot wars.

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[mailto:community-bounces at lists.openmoko.org] On Behalf Of Peter Harrison
Sent: Friday, July 11, 2008 9:25 PM
To: List for Openmoko community discussion
Subject: Re: Robotics and Openmoko


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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| risto at kurppa dot fi
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