Re: [Playerstage-users] iRobot Create + player-stage

[Fred L. <ff...@ab...>]

On Sunday 17 Feb 2008, Richard vaughan wrote:
> A couple of brief answers:
>
> On 17-Feb-08, at 3:01 PM, juan m. e. wrote:
> > hi all,
> > i have two primary questions:
> >
> > 1. Does anybody has use player/stage with iRobot
> > Create??, any tutorial or link, please??
>
> Yes. Player comes with a working Create driver.
>
> > 2. i want to run Player in an embedded linux system
> > (specific uClinux), is it possible??, i read the
> > "Cross compiling tutorial"
> > (http://playerstage.sourceforge.net/doc/Player-2.0.0/player/group__tutori
> >al__crosscompiling.html )
> > but i am not sure, do i need install player in my
> > embedded linux??,
>
> yes.

This is what I thought as well.  Then I realised that in fact I could just 
write my own little application for the embedded system (in fact, in my case 
it is a nokia N800) that would talk to a player client running on the robot 
with a very simple protocol (at the moment, I only want teleoperation).

Fred