Hello Thomas,

i have been associated with a robotics project that is housed at the Hacker
Dojo in Mountain View, CA for the past year or so.  This is a project that
possibly could interest you.  The project is called Ubiquity Robots; you
can look at ubiquityrobotics.com, but there is not much there, only a
picture.  Look instead at https://sites.google.com/site/ubiquityrobots/

I have recently been thinking about the software interface for programming
this robot (called Hercules), but I have not  reached any firm conclusions
yet.  The robot uses ROS, but I think ROS is pretty hard to use and we need
something simpler.  But I may be missing something.

Are you by any chance in the Bay Area?  If so, please join us at the Dojo.
We meet there on Saturdays, at 1:30 pm.

Otherwise I'm happy to talk on Skype, Google, phone, etc.

Joe Landau


On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 11:25 AM, Thomas Petersen <thomas.petersen@gmail.com
> wrote:

> So I am a designer by trade (interface design, apps, data viz) and have
> been lurking on this mailing-list to get a sense of where robotics might be
> headed by reading what you guys have been writing about.
>
> I am also trying to see if there is anywhere I might be able to build a
> product/service that helps the robotics industry using my skills as a
> designer/programmer.
>
> I have some ideas around visual programming languages and automatization
> and robotics fleet management and just saw Nagios.
>
> My question is.
>
> Is there any tools monitoring/interface tools that would interest you if
> it was catered more towards robotics and automation?
>
> I am asking because for instance a platform like Nagios looks powerful but
> it also looks like it could use much more user friendly design.
>
> Let me know if this is something you have any opinions/wishes for.
>
>
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