Boutell, Matthew R wrote:
I am designing a new robotics programming class at our Institute, and
currently am trying to use pyro to control a Roomba. Does anyone have
any experience with using Roombas in the classroom?
Hi Matt,
We (at BMC) haven't used Roombas in the classroom yet... but are
exploring that option. We have a Bluetooth + Camera device (called the
Fluke) that makes the Roomba much more interesting, yet keeps the price
and complexity down.
Three interface possibilities:
1. Pyro has a Roomba interface... uses some of the high-level
abstractions developed for more sophisticated robots. Not easy to
separate the roomba code from the rest of Pyro.
2. A new project, called Myro, has a simplified interface that sits on
top of Pyro. See:
http://wiki.roboteducation.org/Myro_Hardware
This allows a very simple, easy-to-use functional interface. See:
http://wiki.roboteducation.org/Myro_Reference_Manual
The goal of this project is to allow other languages, but currently only
supports CPython.
3. We (and others) are currently getting the Fluke working with the
Roomba. See:
http://wiki.roboteducation.org/Hacking_the_Fluke
This is a low-level interface requiring only a serial-over-bluetooth
connection.
-Doug
Thanks,
--Matt
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Matt Boutell
Asst Prof of Computer Science and Software Engineering
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
812.877.8534
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