Done. For now it's pretty much just a copy of this email. If I get time,
I'll try to install it again and make it into a real tutorial.
-Jon
On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 9:07 AM, Jonathan Bohren
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jonathan.bohren@gmail.com>wrote:
> 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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