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Think life sized Rock 'em Sock 'em Robots. Not sure if this will be good or
bad. I'll tape it to watch one day when I'm bored and want to veg out.

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Dave,

Did you use the "extra" USB headers on the front of the mini-ITX? I had
a conflict when I tried them (might not have done it right).

Alan KM6VV

Hi Patrick,

I was looking a your "Head Tracking using OpenCV" blog, and I remembered
that you said something like the ros_arduino_bridge package is being
used on the new PI Robot. Did I get that right?

I had just installed the pi_head_tracking_tutorial (electric) on my
(diamonback, oops?). And thought I'd look for a closer match to using

Congratulations Boris!
You are now published:
 
The Neato Robot and ROS
[link]
 
Enjoy,
Camp

At the last club meeting we were having a joking discussion about people
making home-made X-Ray machines, and the danger involved.

Anyway, I noticed that someone posted a great Intructable on it...and
the dangers are well documented too.

[link]

Not sure if my problem is with rviz or with the neato driver.

I can run my Kinnects (turtlebot bringup or just the openni launch) and get images from the camera with the ros and rviz, but it gives me warnings on the point cloud data - saying no topic found

I can use the image command and get the depth data though, and I get rgb camera data displayed in rviz - the main display stays black. Once upon I time back in diamondback I did see data here.

David Crawley and the Ubiquity_Robotics Team will review the progress made so far, as well as some of the learning principles that underpin the project. The ultimate goal of the project is to develop an inexpensive hardware platform capable of light domestic duty.

Alan N. Federman, PhD
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Hi Tim, Patrick,

The link for the git package on the ros_arduino_bridge wiki didn't work
(electric), however I did copy and "git" it from my ros_workspace.

I was also able to make it (under turtlebot, diamond? electric??) with
success!

So not sure what I've got yet, and I haven't programmed the Arduino yet.

I got my Neato XV-11 talking to ROS via Fergy's ROS node(fuerte), but when I start-up RVIZ I get no data back. Does anyone have a good neato.vcg or can tell me how to set up RVIZ? I am getting a no fixed frame error, and a warning about no data on the laser scan. I thnik Camp ran into these issues a while back.

Sorry for the cross post.

I'm building a 'bot for Robogames (San Mateo) Robomagellan. I've
FINALLY made a little progress with cmvision on ROS Electric.

My current procedure:
[link]

colorgui.launch works, but only occasionally. Some special start up

This Wednesday, Feb 20, the SIG will meet at the Hacker Dojo at 7:00
pm. This is a new location for us. And if you think you know where the
Dojo is, be advised they've moved recently. We're at the NEW Hacker
Dojo, 599 Fairchild Dr, Mountain View, CA 94043.

[link]

Upon arrival please go to the large classroom.

I have a box of parts, including at least one servo, several unbuilt robobricks parts, and an IR distance sensor (DIRRS, I think it was called)
I also have a partly assembled cardboard robot arm with steppers.
[link]

Some cool stuff. Exciting.

3D Mapping is Here

[link]

It's just about 2 years since Willow Garage ran the ROS 3D contest to see
what the community could come up with for Kinect/OpenNI applications. The
full results are here. The winner in the "most useful" category was a 3D

Carnegie Mellon University’s Silicon Valley campus (CMU-SV) is now
offering a new concentration in Connected Embedded Systems as part
of its Software Engineering masters degree program. The
concentration, which focuses on the fusion of hardware and software
as it relates to cloud-based sensor networks, will only be available

Ok, we're confirmed at the Hacker Dojo for next Wednesday. If you've
been to the OLD Dojo, this is the NEW Dojo.

Hacker Dojo ******THE HACKER DOJO HAS MOVED LOCATION******* it is now at
599 Fairchild Dr, Mountain View, CA 94043.

[link]

Tim

Wednesday, Feb 20, is the date for our SIG meeting this month. We
tentatively (waiting on confirmation but expected) have a location at
the Hacker Dojo. I'll be sending more notices as things settle out.
The location information is below. We'll start regularizing with the
main meeting on time and start at 7:00 pm.

This is the coolest out-of-this-world panoramic I have ever seen. Click
on the big red "play" button, then click on the "Fullscreen" tab on the
upper left. Don't forget to use the scroll wheel to zoom. Now I know
what a Martian grain of sand looks like.

[link]

I've been getting my lab back into shape so that I can start publishing
articles on the stuff I've been building, part of that is getting rid of
things I don't intend to use.

So I've got a bunch of 'excess material' which is code for 'junk' :-) which
I'm parting ways with. In a previous trip I 'gifted' a box of this stuff to

Sorry if I missed this, and we have a location already.

I think the new Hacker Dojo could accommodate us, but I am not a member. Looks like they were starting to move in on Saturday, so I don't know if they're quite ready.

Alan N. Federman, PhD
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