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Powerbook G3 Robot (First OSX Controlled bot in the world?)
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Junior Member
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Geelong Australia
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Hi all,
Just thought you might like to have a look at my robot before it gets put on applefritter.
Powered by X.2 (Orig. X.1) The linking of OSX to the home built robot was completed in March last year(2002).
www.robotics.com/robomenu/robotx.html
Cheers James...
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Windows: Been There Done That , Why go Back?
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: California
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That is trick! Now what are you going to do with it? It would probably scare some neighbors!
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MacBook Pro
Mac Mini
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Mac Elite
Join Date: May 2002
Location: Germany, ivory tow
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Insanely great!!! Tell us more about it! What does it sense? Have you some QT movies showing it missing in action?
Pat
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Macintosh Quadra 950, Powermac 6100, iBook dual USB, Powerbook 667 DVI, Powerbook 867 DVI, MacBook Pro early 2011
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Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Dec 1999
Location: Tampa, Florida
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Wo! How fantastic!
What did you use for parallel I/O? Could it be one of these things www.activewireinc.com?
Does it use 802.11?
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Senior User
Join Date: Oct 1999
Location: Planet Earth
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Activewire doesnt have OSX drivers. Desipite my many e-mails to them they have never answered them.
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---I'm on a low Microsoft diet.
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Mac Enthusiast
Join Date: Nov 1999
Location: San Marcos, CA
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Mac's Rule!
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13.3" 1.83 MacBook, 2GB, 120GB
13.3" 1.83 MacBook, 2GB, 80GB
Mac Mini PVR, 1.66Ghz w/2GB, eyeTV 2.0, 100GB HD and 50" DLP
Mac Mini, 1.83Ghz (before Apple released one) w/2GB, 80GB HD and 20" LCD
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Junior Member
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Geelong Australia
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Hi all,
Just a bit of an update, the robot uses an onboard airport base station that can be connected to a mobile phone for truely wireless anywhere in the world operation.
I do have an activewire board but as I am running X, it cannot be used.
I use my own custom microcontrollers tied to a keyspan serial adaptor connected to the powerbook.
I have some video's and pictures that are too large to upload at this stage, I am getting ADSL in a week or two so I will do it then (to my .mac account)!
The robot is capable of climing small steps and curbing.
It has two video camera's, one black and white for low light and one colour. These pictures are streamed to the host computer via Quicktime Streaming Server.
The robot was completely programmed in RealBasic and I have learnt a lot over the last year...
This is the tenth robot that I have built.
A bit about myself.....
I have just completed a bachelor of Engineering here in Australia (Robotics) and am going on to do a PHD this year.
The PHD is based on Haptics and involves medical robotics....ie. a robot controlled by a doctor hundreds of miles away operating on a patient!
It has a lot to do with forcefeedback etc.
Obviously I am aiming at using OSX and a mac to controll it all....Just hope apple can come to the party......robots are expensive!
Cheers James....
P.S. I am happy to answer any questions 
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