Building and Programming an Asuro Robot in Linux? 20
0R35T35 asks: "I'm currently in the process of building an Asuro mobile robot, and am startled to find (through Google) that there aren't any English speaking community sites for this robot kit. Does anyone know of sites or resources devoted to this cute little guy, or have an Asuro of their own?"
Don't Mod Parent Up! (Score:2)
Re:Sigh (Score:1, Informative)
Please point out an English forum in your results. I see several non-english forums, a German forum but no English forums.
Mod this parent up (Score:1)
Re:Sigh (Score:2)
I have just the site for you: (Score:4, Funny)
Old idea. (Score:1, Offtopic)
Three words. (Score:1)
Well... I can give you something close (Score:4, Informative)
This right here (Score:3, Insightful)
This is why I come to slashdot : )
Re:Well... I can give you something close (Score:1)
Re:From the linked blog... (Score:2)
"serial connection can only send characters". Perhaps (A guess I admit) he means 7 bit characters. In which case sending binary data is a pain in the butt. base64 to the rescue if that's the case.
Re:From the linked blog... (Score:2, Interesting)
A much better idea would be to set the USART to use 8 data bits and then send the array 1 byte at a time - trivial if you are using 8-bit integers, but requires a 16-bit integer to be sent
Re:From the linked blog... (Score:2)
I really wanted to give the guy the benefit of the doubt; but in this case I think you're right.
There is no way you should be able to solder together a micro-robot, compile the tools necessary to write code and write some actual code for
start one! (Score:2, Insightful)
I also found out that there aren't much english forums or websites for the Asuro, though Arexx does have an english forum for their robot : http://www.arexx.com/forum/index.php?c=5&language= english [arexx.com]
But i found out most of the people at http://www.roboternetz.de/phpBB2/index.php [roboternetz.de] wouldn't mind to answer a few questions in english once in a while. (though you might want to babelfish a few words to figure out which forum to post in)
I though already to start a site or