Squirrels have fuzzy tails.
0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.
It doesn't seem that the thread starter has any interest in actually making the thing as this is the second identical post with no replies from him.None the less, for the sake of conversation I'd still recommend doing this the hard way (read: the expensive way) by making the robot a self contained linux server that could run, for example, a web server with video feed and controls. This way it can be used from any computer anywhere in the world over internet. Nice, no?
hmm i imagine it would be quite the explanation but i'd love to know how to do this. with $80 ARM laptops this would be a nice little project assuming you could find a linux distro to work on it.
Wow thats a big project for a beginner I'm just starting out to and to me that looks really hard but good luck
Quote from: blackbeard on February 15, 2010, 08:00:39 AMhmm i imagine it would be quite the explanation but i'd love to know how to do this. with $80 ARM laptops this would be a nice little project assuming you could find a linux distro to work on it.Yeah, those 80$ netbooks have enough power for the job. Linux seems to run quite well on ARM platform; there are many flavours available (including Android, that's actually a port of Linux (if I'm not mistaken, open source as well)). Only thing that would be required to make a surveillance robot with this thing is some usb webcams and probably some usb-i2c bridge so you could control the wheels and camera servos from the system.The rest is software, that costs nothing (apart from time) and can be made to work no matter what. If you do decide to make one, I'd gladly help with this part.