Which one? The NXT? On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 7:25 PM, Chris Brown wrote: > I've been using Linux since I did my electronics course in '95. Since then > I've forgotten most of the electronic stuff but kept using Linux at home and > at work. I've been playing with ROS for the last week and it's very > interesting. I don't have any existing robot to layer it to ROS. > How far could I go with the LEGO mindstorms kit? Is it possible to use the > 2d mapping and navigation with it? > > On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 1:56 PM, Nathaniel Lewis > wrote: > >> I am assuming since you are interested in ROS, you are running some flavor >> of Linux already, thats step one. What I did to get started with ROS was >> actually use ROS and a Parallax Boe-Bot. I bought a Blue-SMIRF bluetooth >> modem from sparkfun electronics but I don't know how available their >> products are to you since you live in Australia. I wrote a simple program >> for the basic stamp (parallax's controller) to send sensor data and accept >> motion data to/from my laptop over Bluetooth. I wrote a wrapper that then >> resided on the PC and I was running ROS on the PC, but it was controlling >> the little robot. >> >> The thing is you could take an existing robot you have and write a layer >> to allow ROS on the PC to talk with it. - Nathaniel >> >> >> >> On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 6:20 PM, Chris Brown wrote: >> >>> Hello, >>> >>> I'd like to start playing with some robot hardware integrating ROS >>> I have some electronic and programming skills >>> Are their any simple cheap development kits out there >>> Please note that I do live in Australia and certain products may not be >>> available or costly to import >>> >>> -- >>> Chris >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> ros-users mailing list >>> ros-users@code.ros.org >>> https://code.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> ros-users mailing list >> ros-users@code.ros.org >> https://code.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users >> >> > > > -- > Chris > Aluminium Replacement Parts > @arpartsau > > > > _______________________________________________ > ros-users mailing list > ros-users@code.ros.org > https://code.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users > >