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Re: Lots of stuff going on

Anonymous — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 15:58:40 -0000

The living room is already chockers with just the toy robot's toys. :)

Re: Lots of stuff going on

ash — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 02:14:00 -0000

Don't despair, I recently heard that a new Aibo is in the works. Specifically this one is meant to integrate with the Playstation 3 - whatever that means!

Actually imagine the power of the PS3 connected to an Aibo. That could be pretty cool. :)

I can imagine your house is going to be crawling with autonomous devices once you get half these kits working hehe :)

Re: Lots of stuff going on

kymhorsell — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 19:49:54 -0000

Hi ash. Don't mean to be an old woman, but it seems the attached videos don't handle mpeg. I've attached a couple to one blog post but they don't even appear in the entry.

-kym

Re: Lots of stuff going on

Anonymous — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 18:10:00 -0000

Ah, Dremel. I will have to be picking one of those up. :)
As to robot dogs -- I managed to get the Joinmax kit unpacked and 1/2-built. At least the legs. For $330 USD not too bad. But the bad news is the onboard controller is just a motor controller and RS232 port. At least the protocol is pretty simple -- just send down series of 3 bytes of 0xff MOTOR-NUMBER (i.e. 0..0xf) POSITION (i.e. 0..0xff).
The thing has 15 df incl 2 for head and 1 for tail. All the servos are simply bolted end-to-end to make the legs. And it comes as a bit of a Chinese box puzzle to pack it into the shipping container. Many of the parts are clipped together as they will be when completed -- except you have to pull them all apart to put the innards in.
I've also looked at the I-Cybie that still seems to be around. Seems a bit roomier inside but also in the 400-500 usd range.
And then there's stuff like to Aibo (various versions). Discontinued a couple of years back at Sony, but every day there seem to be at least 2 on Ebay for $2000 USD (original price, of course, nearer $5000 USD).
I also came across about 500 refs to the Genibo made by Dasatech (at www.dasatech.co.kr). While there were lots of reviews in 2006, there seem to be no sellers. And the links on the company web page seem mostly broken.