robotmaker that was some good information.

Thanks BC

its very important you do RESEARCH first ,get the model of the board you want to buy,ITX ICORE for windows 7 or ITX dual core or quad core and get the correct DC-DC converter dont forget extra power for hard drive and full load of cpu power (cpu load is kinda hard to work out),it depends on operating system and how many programs running at same time and more somewhere i did see a chart that can work out the load if having cd or hard drive or usb camera added and software running ,but cant find it yet,each usb port you use is rated at 500ma pc for a house is very easy,but robot its harder now there is another way use a laptop ,but then more added weight and battery charging you will need 12 to mostly 19 volt converter somestimes less voltage sometimes more,depending on thje wall adapter,then will it fit inside your robot design is another problem i use alot of differnt types of boards and laptops and do alot of testing and sometimes i can send it back some without losing too much money RESEARCH does always work in getting the board asnd trying it your self to see if it wll work in your design

I just upgraded my laptop , an Acer Aspire from Vista to Windows 7. I maxed the ram to 4gig. It has never ran as good as it does now, even when it was just pulled out of the box new! I've been trying to get Leaf up and running . There seem to be files everywhere for different OSs but not in one place and setup by OS.I joined the Yahoo Group someone pointed me to search the messages for a missing file I needed. I'm sure it's in 1 of the 1536 that came up in the search. I haven't given up yet though. LOL! J.W.

J.W.,

Don't give up. Leaf has been a permanent member of my family for almost two years now. His being in the home is priceless.

Mel

J.W so your the one who ask the problem about windows 7,it is very hard to install,some have got it to work,i dont know if add-ons like boards will work,i think roboreal software has a problem somewhat working with windows 7 but on mine going to use windowsXP pro zero problems,lot faster unless you use 64 bit computer,but then it has another problem uses more power is runs at 64 bits not 32 bits ,board does need big power supply plus i see more heat 60 watts or less compare to 90 watts or more,can find specs about the cpu power ,great on desktops,but does have some good,64 bits,more memory i think thats why most robot companies that sell robots over $5000 only use windows xp pro or linux

do a reasearch on robot companies that sell robots $5000 to $10000 and more ,have yet to see one use windows 7 and i bet they have the best engineers money can buy

i do like WINDOWS 7 for my desktop main computer

Power wont be a problem for me, or even computer speed. But software is a big problem. I think I can do what I want if I could find a AI or chatbot that has facial recognition. I could run that and ARC on the same computer. The only ones I have found are Leaf and Guile 3d and its $180! The problem I have with leaf is me being new to it and bad information . The information is only bad because of time Leaf has been around and the changes that were made to make leaf have different functions and work on different OSs. I haven't seen many videos of Leaf based robots and that kind of throws up a flag for me also.I'll play around with it a while longer though . J.W.

Robotmaker so what's it like interacting with you? Do you have to add all the responses in it's library of does it have one to start with and it just adds to it? Also do you use focal recognition on any of them? Thanks! JW

recognition you start by who is this and with the web cam he will keep your face in hard drive,so you need to train him first now on questions ,he does have a long list of them you can ask,and not really to hard to make some using the examples on chat program it does work kinda good,need more work on it,best person to ask is THOMAS i am looking to make one too

when you get it up,in the leaf.lisp main file you can name your robot instead of LEAF and in where BRUCE or ALEX or ? you change them with your names and family names ,very easy ,in editor it says find and replace put in BRUCE and in replace put in your name,and all will be change to your name emotions and other phrases and so on