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

[Chris Brown]

Yes, NXT
http://www.ros.org/wiki/nxt

The module makes the sensors and motors appear as topics.

On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 3:21 PM, Nathaniel Lewis
<linux.robotdude at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Chris
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