[Noisebridge-discuss] what could we do with one of these babies..

Andy Isaacson adi at hexapodia.org
Thu Apr 15 18:12:20 UTC 2010


On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 08:26:35AM -0700, Jonathan Foote wrote:
> In fact, it's not clear how "open" their hardware platform is (can we
> get schematics and part sources at cost?)  so "open" may actually be
> an abuse of the term...

Well, at least their "ROS" source is BSD licensed according to
http://www.willowgarage.com/pages/software/ros-platform

Holy christ their design includes a lot of expensive parts.
http://www.willowgarage.com/pages/robots/technical-specs

Two $3000 Xeon servers, two $5000 laser scanners, four
probably-multi-thousand-dollar cameras, no make that five cameras ...
and we haven't even gotten to the mechanicals, which I'm completely
unqualified to price out.

Nice work if you can get it!

-andy



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