i second the glyph idea..even if i did suggest it a few pages ago.

Again that is how sony makes Aibos climb onto the charging station 2 simple glyphs.

HAHA...

Yes you did

I imagine something along the lines of this for a glyph so that it blends in to the dock;

About using the GLYPH idea it not really bad,except on the walls ,on home base docking looks like it may work ,and it free

But getting to the homebase from another room not so great,but if some like to plaster them all over the wall thats great.

IF i did it my girlfriend will move out fast.plus we have parties,its not that i dont like GLYPH IDEA ,just in my very nice home i wont put them up.

I woulder what others thinK about putting them up on nice walls painted

SECOND to me is the most important like REX HAS SAID autonomous robot independance it meens only using the sensors on the robot to find and dock without any help from the outside world,like magnets,or GLYPH beacon senders on the wall.

PEOPLE dont use GLYPH'S to get around,so my opinion is why should robots use them

BUT on docking kinda ok,i know i wont use them,and looking at the glyph i see only can add 4 or 5 ,i may be wrong .

Question for RICH since i am not looking to argue or fight any more,on GLYPH how many can be added ,just curious YOU CAN ANSWER OR NOT

You only need 1 on the dock so being limited is not an issue. You can have up to 4 glyphs. Finding the dock is still in discussion, let's not forget about distance measuring to find where the robot is. And compass/encoders which we still await information on but I've given up waiting for that one. And people do use glyphs to get around, in a way. No doubt you have your house number on your house, it would be difficult for someone to know which house you live in without a big 412 (or whatever number you live at if you aren't Robotmaker) on the house somewhere. We are given information through symbols almost everywhere. There is very little difference between that and glyphs.

YOU said roborealm is $49.99 witch very correct,but you forgot about the many modules it has and interfaces that can be added to EZB ,I think it will be done in a week.

so $49.99 is well more worth the price to have all those modules and interface,mostly so many want to uuse arduino but cant ,now they can

REX good news my solarbotics order just came in today as i was posting this info SO i got pololu IR BEACON SET

I didn't forget anything, none of them can be added to EZB at the moment and until it can it is not a solution and should not be discussed.

RICH dont need a compass ,i think it may not be needed,but china does have the very cheap,and simple interface to EZB and others are using it sorry no more posting from me,for a few hours,got a big party to go too

NEXT week looking to test POLOLU IR beacons and put up the info,scripts might be hard,not shore till i try it for the beacon