Also, I don't think he's actually controlling the Roomba here. There's only one control board and, judging from the pictures, there's no connection between the tablet pc and the roomba.
We use our system as a cheap and convenient way to play with robotic vision projects. The idea is, we can create control programs, upload them to the roomba, then try them out. Better algorithms can be implemented on real embedded systems.
A friend and I did the exact same thing a while ago, but using a hacked virgin webplayer. It's an internet appliance you can get for about $50 off of eBay. We just ran it off of NiMH batteries and woila, instant robot.
The details are here.
We wrote up all of our notes, including the pinout of the roomba board in case anyone else wants to do this.
I might get laughed out for this, but what about usb networking? Aren't usb hubs powered off the same 5V that feeds devices?
Also, what kind of bar are you in that you start an impromptu lan game, and *15* people have laptops and want to join. I want to move to whatever utopia you inhabit.
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I really enjoyed the spirit of communication among all the competitors in the past two years I've done this.
I was wondering if we should set up some kind of community (mailing list, forum, whatever) to share ideas.
My team (UTD) had leakage problems too, and I think that's the kind of thing we can avoid if we all have a way to get together and share input.
She's 15 years old, and the first time she's been active enough to have her birth defect cause problems is while playing DDR.
No wonder we're a nation of fatasses.
Also, I don't think he's actually controlling the Roomba here. There's only one control board and, judging from the pictures, there's no connection between the tablet pc and the roomba.
We use our system as a cheap and convenient way to play with robotic vision projects. The idea is, we can create control programs, upload them to the roomba, then try them out. Better algorithms can be implemented on real embedded systems.
A friend and I did the exact same thing a while ago, but using a hacked virgin webplayer. It's an internet appliance you can get for about $50 off of eBay. We just ran it off of NiMH batteries and woila, instant robot.
The details are here. We wrote up all of our notes, including the pinout of the roomba board in case anyone else wants to do this.
I might get laughed out for this, but what about usb networking? Aren't usb hubs powered off the same 5V that feeds devices?
Also, what kind of bar are you in that you start an impromptu lan game, and *15* people have laptops and want to join. I want to move to whatever utopia you inhabit.