Society of Robots - Robot Forum
General Misc => Misc => Topic started by: z.s.tar.gz on April 29, 2010, 04:36:03 PM
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Who actually does all their robot work on linux? What software do you use?
I'm just curious after an arguement with a friend.
This is not a flame war. If you do not use linux for robot work do not post
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I use Solaris at school. All the computer nodes are hooked up to the supercomputer so everything is blazing fast ;D Nothing too robotics related though, but I do watch robot videos on youtube :P
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sure, i do everything on Linux. it's a requirement in my line of work. and it's the only OS with the flexibility i require for my hobbies.
what do you want to know exactly?
i program microcontrollers from Linux.
i've also had robots running Linux. (although haven't worked on them for a while now... must resurrect that project.)
This is not a flame war. If you do not use linux for robot work do not post
dream on. here we all come carrying matches.
dunk.
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Lately, I've been doing all robotics works exclusively on Ubuntu.
Eclipse makes things easy for the Axon/AVR, and Webbot's Designers also help a lot too. For receiving data from the Axon, I just use gtkTerm, or whatever other terminal I feel like.
I've done some designing with Q-CAD, and I would trouble myself more with 3D designers, but lately, I haven't had much of a need for that software. :P
I use EagleCAD as well for circuit design.
Currently, the only reason I can see myself using Windows anymore for robotics is just to use Google Sketchup...
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dream on. here we all come carrying matches.
I gotta put that to supress the troll accusations when things get out of control. =P
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I do all of my robot work and 90% of my other coding work on a linux tablet. Most of the systems are cleaner and work better than I have found on my windows environment (with the exception of TextPad, haven't found a good alternative for linux yet).