On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 11:32:41AM +0100, Marius Kintel wrote:
If anyone is ordering iRobots, I'm in for one as well!
These things are quite robust, high-quality and reasonably priced for what you get. They should be quite hackable as well, but they use a relatively weak Atmel microcontroller, so you don't want to install Linux on it. Attaching a Gumstix to it and talking to the robot in real-time over serial/USB should be easy though.
Have you looked into sensors/actuators the device comes with and what you can add? It doesn't look very hackable to me concerning the hardware but I may be wrong... I'd like to use a robot to be able to do the robotchallenge courses, so I'd need some sensors to navigate on a line and get around obstacles etc... Ralf -- Ralf Schlatterbeck email: ralf@zoo.priv.at FAX: +43/2243/26465/23