Infrared beamer? Don't they realize that has already been pretty well tested with LEGO Mindstorms 1.0-2.5 and it really stinks? Tell your robot to turn around away from the transmitter, whoops! no more signal!
I much prefer using the Bluetooth of LEGO Mindstorms NXT. That's basically the most important element of the system which makes my web-controllable wireless robot ( http://turbogfx.homelinux.org/legocam ) possible.
Which, by the way, after I spent $91 on 4 500mAh rechargeable 9V's + charger for the wireless camera, is now back online and ready for you pesky slashdotters.
As the owner of the robot you link to... I'd like to get your contact information so I can bill you for a new DSL modem when this one explodes. Maybe a new router also.
Yes, I am actually the owner... and yes, my modem isn't liking this very much x_x
I've had the set for a while now. I signed up for their Developer Program, but wasn't picked, however they were nice and gave everyone who wasn't chosen the chance to order it a month early. So I was able to play with it and build my robot. The only bad thing is that it's been sitting here next to my linux box while I wait for LEGO to release their SDKs for the bluetooth interface, which is supposed to be in August.
I must note: the bluetooth connectivity to the LEGO NXT is much easier to establish with a Linux box using BlueZ, than it is with a Windows box running MCE2005/SP2 or even Vista. It's just hit or miss with the Windows stuff, depending on whether the driver likes you, the temperature, the time of day, what color shirt you're wearing -- but one rfcomm line and pin confirmation in Linux and it's done.
That is, after all, how I'm going to let you darn slashdotters control it over the 'net, video included, when I finish programming the new protocol into my robot server.
I just bought a new laptop, so what the hell am I going to do now? Send it back to HP when longhorn comes out and have them stick a DRM compatable display on it? Maybe even buy a new laptop altogether? BS... I paid good money for this 1680x1050 widescreen display with MCE 2005, and it better keep playing DVDs for more than 2 years...
I hope that someone figures out a way around this in Linux because I do dualboot and I must say that I'd much prefer to use some kind of workaround software on my favorite OS than send the laptop out to get a new screen or buy a new laptop...
Bah. My LEGO Mindstorms robot + Vision Command camera beats everything when I use Perl and PHP to allow people to drive it around my room from across the world.
A link to this robot's interface would mean doom to my connection so I'm keeping it under covers;)
YEs, Gentoo can do this. Just emerge rcs, make an/etc/config-archive dir, setup/etc/dispatch-conf.conf, and just do dispatch-conf in place of etc-update.
I so dearly love my iRiver(s). I bought an iFP-190TC for $200; and then I won 3rd in a contest from iRiver themselves and got an iFP-380T. Wonderful. But why didn't PCM review the iRiver H series of players? They compete with and surpass the various iPods by far, IMO.
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Infrared beamer? Don't they realize that has already been pretty well tested with LEGO Mindstorms 1.0-2.5 and it really stinks? Tell your robot to turn around away from the transmitter, whoops! no more signal!
I much prefer using the Bluetooth of LEGO Mindstorms NXT. That's basically the most important element of the system which makes my web-controllable wireless robot ( http://turbogfx.homelinux.org/legocam ) possible.
Which, by the way, after I spent $91 on 4 500mAh rechargeable 9V's + charger for the wireless camera, is now back online and ready for you pesky slashdotters.
Can you play tic tac toe with it over the 'net?
;)
In a similar fasion that you can drive my LEGO Mindstorms NXT robot over the 'net with live camera?
http://turbogfx.homelinux.org/legocam
As the owner of the robot you link to... I'd like to get your contact information so I can bill you for a new DSL modem when this one explodes. Maybe a new router also.
Yes, I am actually the owner... and yes, my modem isn't liking this very much x_x
I've had the set for a while now. I signed up for their Developer Program, but wasn't picked, however they were nice and gave everyone who wasn't chosen the chance to order it a month early. So I was able to play with it and build my robot. The only bad thing is that it's been sitting here next to my linux box while I wait for LEGO to release their SDKs for the bluetooth interface, which is supposed to be in August.
I must note: the bluetooth connectivity to the LEGO NXT is much easier to establish with a Linux box using BlueZ, than it is with a Windows box running MCE2005/SP2 or even Vista. It's just hit or miss with the Windows stuff, depending on whether the driver likes you, the temperature, the time of day, what color shirt you're wearing -- but one rfcomm line and pin confirmation in Linux and it's done.
That is, after all, how I'm going to let you darn slashdotters control it over the 'net, video included, when I finish programming the new protocol into my robot server.
I just bought a new laptop, so what the hell am I going to do now? Send it back to HP when longhorn comes out and have them stick a DRM compatable display on it? Maybe even buy a new laptop altogether? BS... I paid good money for this 1680x1050 widescreen display with MCE 2005, and it better keep playing DVDs for more than 2 years... I hope that someone figures out a way around this in Linux because I do dualboot and I must say that I'd much prefer to use some kind of workaround software on my favorite OS than send the laptop out to get a new screen or buy a new laptop...
I beleive it's yellow and gray.
I may release it... but when I don't know...
Bah. My LEGO Mindstorms robot + Vision Command camera beats everything when I use Perl and PHP to allow people to drive it around my room from across the world. A link to this robot's interface would mean doom to my connection so I'm keeping it under covers ;)
YEs, Gentoo can do this. Just emerge rcs, make an /etc/config-archive dir, setup /etc/dispatch-conf.conf, and just do dispatch-conf in place of etc-update.
All I know is that Gentoo makes it easy:
/etc/X11/xorg.conf.example
(if you already have xfree installed)
emerge unmerge xfree
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 emerge xorg-x11
xorgconfig or edit
Done. You just need to emerge Gnome or KDE (my fav is Fluxbox)
I so dearly love my iRiver(s). I bought an iFP-190TC for $200; and then I won 3rd in a contest from iRiver themselves and got an iFP-380T. Wonderful. But why didn't PCM review the iRiver H series of players? They compete with and surpass the various iPods by far, IMO.