AW: [Metalab] Robotics

[Ralf Schlatterbeck]

On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 11:32:41AM +0100, Marius Kintel wrote:
> 
> If anyone is ordering iRobots, I'm in for one as well!
> 
> These things are quite robust, high-quality and reasonably priced for  
> what you get.
> They should be quite hackable as well, but they use a relatively weak  
> Atmel microcontroller, so you don't want to install Linux on it.  
> Attaching a Gumstix to it and talking to the robot in real-time over  
> serial/USB should be easy though.
Have you looked into sensors/actuators the device comes with and what
you can add? It doesn't look very hackable to me concerning the hardware
but I may be wrong... I'd like to use a robot to be able to do the
robotchallenge courses, so I'd need some sensors to navigate on a line
and get around obstacles etc...

Ralf
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