
Heathkit Hero
USA
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Picked up a Whitebox 914 Robot. It is a heavy guy, about 55 pounds, but it has potential!. Still trying to figure out what route to go on this. It will have to be run on a DEBIAN O/S, so I am hoping EZ robot will come out with a Unix or Linux solution to the EZ robot board.
The other robot is about finished just need to attach his arm, and install the EZ robot board and tie it into the onboard EEEPC mother board.
THE 914 models does have WINDOWS XP besides LINUX (DEBIAN) software
one i have is a windows xp version ,just not going to use the EZB on it
my HERO robot like your will have onboard computer like mostly all my robot designs do and using EZB,rest of the HERO parts i am selling
The Software I have is Player 3.0.2 which supposedly pretty decent. There is one bug that has to do with the edge sensors on the beak, I do not know if it has been fixed, but I got it from Source Forge.
Do you have any Hero 1 or Hero Jr parts like a head plastic or assembly you might want to part with? I am going to make this one about 12" taller that my other Hero.
ROS (Robot Operating System) made to work with linux ,it has so many many modules and the list keeps getting bigger by the day,its open source software
ros software
On THE plastic parts or metal parts all of them i need for my design,only parts i am using ,plus drive motors
only selling the electronics
AND i not great at programmming but ROS IS FAIRLY EASY
Very simple to install and use,just need to follow directions on the site
I don't see windows up anymore, but there are a lot of other platforms available. Looks like there was a disclaimer "To be practical, we are not targeting the windows environment as a full blown replacement for linux-ros as windows doesn't have the mechanisms to handle the scaling of complexity (e.g. rosdeps)"
But they do have the full blown DEBIAN Squeeze version, which is what is on my Hero. And the full blown version! I am downloading it now!
Same for windows software only made for windows
I would love to try the windows ROS though. I did download the DOT. Net stuff for it, but for some reason ROS for windows is some kind of big secret or something *confused*
I know that microsoft made something close to it,called MRDS
mrds SOFTWARE
Yes ROS I believe is only NIX type Operating systems.
Could you send me any notes and stuff you may have on hooking the EZ-B to the Hero? My email addy is mikeDOThickman1967ATgmailDOTcom
I've got a Hero 1 I'm wanting to do a little tinkering with it.