
thegoodrobot
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I'm going to buy a new laptop to mount on my bot.
Would a laptop that is 2gb DDR ram work well?
How about netbook like acer?
I'm going to buy a new laptop to mount on my bot.
Would a laptop that is 2gb DDR ram work well?
How about netbook like acer?
its about the price of a netbook, so i was thinking about getting it. right now my "robots" are on electric wheelchair bases so i have plenty of room and power to put a larger laptop if needed.
also i'm looking online to buy sonic sensor or ir sensors. can i use both at once?
also, lets say i'm just using sonic distance sensors (or ir )
... how many do i use, or how many max can i use? should i put them on all corners of my bot?
i'm waiting for my ARC controller to come in the mail, but until then i'm day dreaming of things to do with it
ps: how can i get emailed when i receive replies to this post? i just happened to check my post but never got a notification.
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Post some diagrams on here first so we can help you and make sure you're not putting too many sensors on. There's such a thing as too many
It's best to connect a sensor to a servo. Use the Tutorial page and look at the controls. Watch the videos.
How about the minimum specs for an old laptop? I'd like to repurpose one of my older laptops for my bot's brain if I can.
The laptop in question has an Intel Pentium M 1.6GHz processor and 512MB of RAM (but I could upgrade it to 2GB RAM). It's running Windows XP SP2 (yeah, I'm stuck in the past :P).
Will ARC run well/at all on hardware like that?
As for 1.6ghz... You'd have to try and see. It'll work. But how fast? That's up to your tolerance
My ultimate goal will be to do an embedded PC since I'm comfortable building PCs. I just don't own a newer OS than WinXP. Most of my PCs are hand-me-downs from work. I have a pretty high tolerance for slow things... used a phone modem (not DSL/Cable) for internet access for a loooooong time. *blush*
So still no love with the speech recognition on Windows XP, huh? I was afraid of that... My main laptop, also WinXP, has speech recognition already installed on it. It'll be interesting to see if it'll work with ARC. Does speech recognition work for Windows Vista or only on Windows 7?
I really like the idea of a tablet for the touch functionality. Makes it a lot easier when demoing the product.
I also use the EZ-B with an Acer netbook.
Both of these have the C-50 (i think?) processor. With 2gb of ram. So they're not crazy machines at all. They run ARC just fine.
Keep in mind, the interface gets a little sluggish with SO many controls interacting. That doesn't bother me, and is expected.