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

[Nathaniel Lewis]

Which one? The NXT?

On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 7:25 PM, Chris Brown <chrisneilbrown at gmail.com>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 <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
>>>
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>>> Chris
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