You can't use the excsisting tech? Such as removing the part from the robot that communicates with the North Star, then have it respond to your robot? Or would that somehow being a lawsuit if this was ever found out.

That's what most hackers of the Neato do. They remove the Lidar unit from the robot and use the hardware as a standalone application.

Legally speaking it would not be an offence unless you used it for personal or monetary gain. It would be for personal use and therefore perfectly acceptable. If you were planning to use it for monetary gain you should also check the licence of ARC and the EZ-SDK as I believe it states that neither shall be used for commercial purposes without prior written concent, or words to that effect.

So in short, rip apart anything you own and use it however you wish provided it doesn't break any laws (like used to build a weapon type laws) and don't use it as part of a system you are going to sell.

mostly people dont use for montary gain on use on robots

ROBO-DOC not all do ,few use a cheato display controller in the neato xv-11 and tap in the serial port on board one of the links tell you how to do it. USING linux

need to find a way to print a image in COMMAND PROMPT ,i have GUI show full data on the LIDAR and distance .

soon as i have time today will post photos of the lidar on a pcb using only usb

I realise that some people don't use it for personal or monetary gain however a lot more than you'd think do. The definition of using for personal or monetary gain is quite complex. But that's not the issue, I was just letting whoever asked about the legal standpoint on it how the law would see it.

What do you mean by print an image in the command prompt? Are you talking Linux terminal, windows command prompt or something else entirely? And print an image as in display it on screen, output it to a display or print it as in output to a printer?

If you explain what you mean a little better I might be able to tell you what you want to know.

Then they cant get a patent on it,or get a chance to get sued,just like the big super design i sold to work they paid for a lawyer and the patent and paid me the money i want

I have a image on the command prompt screen and want to save it as a jpeg or bmp

Need to i guess hook up the neato lidar again ,may be to have more info,its a GUI

NICE to see you going to help its a good start,i try to help you but

Also how do you save on a windows screen as a jpg or bmp ,the print screen doesnt work that may work better

There is a program called "Greenshot" that you can download for free "personal use" that will let you capture any area size you want of the display screen and save the file as a JPEG.

Print screen should work. Press it then open paint, Press Ctrl & V (or edit - paste) and viola, image is pasted in to paint.

Alt & Print Screen does only the active window.