Cool!
Can you add it to the wiki?
-j
On Oct 12, 2012 7:16 AM, "Jon Stephan" <
jfstepha@gmail.com> wrote:
> In case you're interested, I managed to get ROS running on Ubuntu on
> Android on my phone (a Motorola Droid Bionic). I'm not sure how useful
> this would be to anyone, but it's kind of neat.
>
> I did have some build errors when "Building the higher-level/tools (Layer
> 2)", but roscore, turtlesim, rxconsole, rxgraph, and rxplot work.
>
> An overview of the steps:
> - Rooted my phone.
> - Install the Terminal Emulator program from the Google Play app store.
> - Downloaded "Complete Linux Installer" from the Google Play app store.
> - Used that to download and install Ubuntu (large version).
> - Followed the guide in the Complete Linux Installer (unziped the image,
> and moved it)
> - I had to make the .img file bigger because there was not enough space
> for ROS (in the terminal, outside of Ubuntu: cd /mnt/sdcard/ubuntu; dd
> if=/dev/zero bs=1M count=1000000 >> ubuntu.img)
> - Followed the instructions on the ROS Debian install page.
> - Had to change a couple of lines in turtle.cpp to get it to compile
> (needed to typecast a constant to qword in the std::max function call)
> - As per
> http://answers.ros.org/question/36890/unable-to-find-swigswg-and-unable-to-find-pythonswg/,
> had to cp -r /swig /usr/local/share.
>
> It's slow, but it seems to be faster than the Rasperry Pi.
>
> Screenshot: screenshot<https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-A2nk374OW2k/UHf7lv2AxuI/AAAAAAAAClo/JQX-yI5v1Fg/s455/ROS_phone.png>
>
> -Jon
>
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