[Noisebridge-discuss] hacking Spykee robot

[Martin Bogomolni]

Wow, that does look like a neat bot.

-M

On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 6:28 PM, Christie Dudley <longobord at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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