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Sony Aibo Hacks Increase Functionality
Dinglenuts writes "Engadget posted a how-to article on increasing your Aibo's functionality using third party hacks. Given the increasing availability of networked home goods, I'm very interested to see what uses the Slashdot community can conceive for a household controlled through voice commands issued to a robot dog."
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Can you make the thing fetch beer? Or is that lack of thumbs going to be a problem?
My wife doesn't listen to me either...
The opportunity for clever hacks like these through the combination of devices is why things should be left open by their designers during conception, when it's all possible. If this kind of mindset was more widespread, there'd be all kinds of possibilities from discovering what the pure functionality of a device can do. The increasing trend to lock devices down and restrict consumer flexibility with products they choose to purchase (see Xbox boot rom checks etc) is something that's dissapointing, and closing doors on innovative and new uses for everyday devices.
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Better hack: remove the innards, place a live puppy inside.
Makes it far more realistic.
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I just want a robot dog with frickin lasers strapped to his head.
AIBO! SICK 'EM!
What? Hacks for a Sony product? This can't be allowed! Sony must at once produce a new firmware update for all Aibos to make sure this dog-like robot only performs Sony approved actions. I mean, what would the world be like if a robotic dog did anything other than dance and perform tricks in ant entertaining fasion?
We can't have people going around actually writing their own software on hardware they purchased with their own money.
Aibo needs a guard function for the neighborhood cats. Just bark and move a bit when there's any meowing around. If they pee on my door one more time, I'm gonna' set bear traps.
a beo-woof woof woof of these...
"I'm very interested to see what uses the Slashdot community can conceive for a household controlled through voice commands issued to a robot dog."
Whatever it is, it's gonna involve goatse.cx
It's easy to write code for an AIBO... there's a number of open source software frameworks for this great hardware platform -- although of course my favorite would be my own: Tekkotsu
And it's all supported by Sony -- no hacking required!
There's a variety of levels you can code at as well -- there's several high-level scripting languages like URBI, R-Code, and even a couple upcoming Python interfaces, as well as a number of low-level C/C++ interfaces (e.g. Tekkotsu) which can run onboard and directly process every bit and byte, or remote control from your PC for maximum horsepower.