Re: [Playerstage-users] Recommendations: budget hardware

[Gal K. <ga...@cs...>]

Carlos,

The ER-1 by evolution have a position driver, which is now part of the
player distribution. We have only tested it very briefly, so cannot say=20
anything as to its quality.  So far, I have seen no drivers for the ER-1
distance sensors, which hook up through separate USB ports. =20

We're planning to build a set of drivers for Friendly Robotics' vacum cle=
aner,=20
which sells for under $1000, and has a nice set of distance sensors
on board, so it is essentially like a pioneer.  It will take a few months
before we have something operational, though.

Gal


On Tuesday 02 November 2004 15:41, Reed Hedges wrote:
> Carlos Villegas wrote:
> > Does anybody know which is the least expensive robot that can be used
> > with player stage simulator?
>
> Here is the stuff that player supports:
> =09http://playerstage.sourceforge.net/faq.html#player_hardware
>
> There might be some new drivers that haven't made it into that list yet=
,
> search the archives of this list.
>
> My barely educated guess is that the "cheapest" are the biotrics robots
> and building something based on a kameleon, but I don't really know
> (you'd have to email them for price quotes).  And it depends on what yo=
u
> require the bot to do of course, and how much of it you want to build
> yourself.
>
> Reed
>
>
>
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