[ros-users] Looking for a cheap and simple ROSable robot to buy

[Chris Brown]

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
<linux.robotdude at gmail.com>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 <chrisneilbrown at gmail.com>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
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