Heathkit Hero
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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.
YES thats why i said mqabe 2 years i knew it was much longer ,but at the time very few like you self even knew about it 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
Oh Wow, thanks for that link...that is great you found that! 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!
Reason no windows is because a LINUX operating software Same for windows software only made for windows
Unfortunately I do not know windows that well
. I am competent with NET- BSD, Solaris and Linux though.
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 never heard of windows ROS,dont think they made one yet I know that microsoft made something close to it,called MRDS
mrds SOFTWARE
Im sorry..My Bad I thought you meant BRAIN system... that is the one I cannot get hold of. :-( Yes ROS I believe is only NIX type Operating systems.
Hi Heathkit
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.
I can't wait to see EZb getting installed in this little guy. By any chance have you written down all the sensors and their types. That way you know how many ports your going to use for EZ- HERO?