[Noisebridge-discuss] hacking Spykee robot

[Christie Dudley]

I'd definitely be up for it if I can scrape together the time.  Robots++

Christie
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On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 4:27 PM, Al Billings <albill at openbuddha.com> wrote:

> This looks pretty fun. I'm game.
>
> On Oct 15, 2009, at 3:21 PM, Gian Pablo Villamil wrote:
>
> > I recently picked up a Spykee robot, basically it's a WiFi
> > controllable robot with a webcam for a head.
> > (http://www.spykeeworld.com/spykee/US/index.html - annoying flash
> > site).
> >
> > I've built it, it works, you can actually control it over the
> > Internet, but it has a lot more potential. The manufacturer was
> > supposed to release an Open Source SDK, but has dragged their feet on
> > it. It seems to be running some kind of embedded Linux, connecting to
> > the internal serial port seems to give access to the internal file
> > system.
> >
> > The lack of the SDK hasn't prevented a bunch of people from hacking
> > it, by reverse engineering the control protocol, and doing clever
> > hacks like using the LEDs (which are user controllable) to trigger
> > additional motors instead:
> >
> > http://www.spykeedev.net/
> > http://www.spykeemods.co.uk/
> > http://www.spykee.org/Default.aspx
> >
> > I've successfully used the streaming webcam driver from SpyKee dev to
> > feed video into VJing app, amongst other things.
> >
> > Anyone else want to play? It seems like quite a capable robotics
> > platform, shame the makers haven't seen fit to release the SDK.
>
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