Everyone- Deails of the Linux-specific support for Cye has apparently gotten lost in the shuffle. I've written a platform-independent interface in Java that allows a developer to command the basic functions of Cye, like "move to position x,y" and "set motor velocities to v1, v2". This work was originally carried out to allow the CMU RoboCup Team (http://www.teambots.org for CMU's team, http://www.robocup.org for info on the competition) to port their soccer-playing code to a new set of modified Cye platforms. Meanwhile, Probotics has decided to release their source under the GPL, but as their development page says, there is no existing support for Linux. HOWEVER this is definitely a great first step, so they should by no means be criticized. The CMU JavaCye package has been (somewhat) extensively tested, so if you have access to a Cye and dig Linux, please head over to our download page and give it a try! Thanks! Brian Chemel
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The Java port I developed at CMU is not GPL'ed. Probotics' recent source release is GPL'ed. Brian
Everyone- Deails of the Linux-specific support for Cye has apparently gotten lost in the shuffle. I've written a platform-independent interface in Java that allows a developer to command the basic functions of Cye, like "move to position x,y" and "set motor velocities to v1, v2". This work was originally carried out to allow the CMU RoboCup Team (http://www.teambots.org for CMU's team, http://www.robocup.org for info on the competition) to port their soccer-playing code to a new set of modified Cye platforms. Meanwhile, Probotics has decided to release their source under the GPL, but as their development page says, there is no existing support for Linux. HOWEVER this is definitely a great first step, so they should by no means be criticized. The CMU JavaCye package has been (somewhat) extensively tested, so if you have access to a Cye and dig Linux, please head over to our download page and give it a try! Thanks! Brian Chemel