[Noisebridge-discuss] mchawking needs a friend

[Brian Morris]

On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 6:05 PM, Brian Morris <cymraegish at gmail.com> wrote:

> what happened to the IR sensor installation ? Someone was working on that.
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> if it is installed it might be a little simple towards robotic programming
> hacking.
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> thinking on the order of being able to avoid crashing into things.
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I mean automagically, make it easier for the operator.


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> Brian
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> On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 10:40 PM, Jake <jake at spaz.org> wrote:
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>> so it seems our dear friend MC Hawking the wheelchair robot has been
>> staring at the wall for a little while
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>> and i think it's time someone plays with it.
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>> it's got all the hardware there to be a remotely controllable
>> telepresence bot, all it needs is a little software.
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>> It has a hardcore 5.8GHz wifi device so it has a great connection to the
>> local wifi, it has an IP (172.30.0.50) and a world-accessible IP. and
>> camera and kinect and it runs ROS and it has wheel odometry and gyroscopes
>> and a laser and missile launchers...
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>> I am here to help anyone who wants to work on it.
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>> -jake
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