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  14      <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/">Petter Reinholdtsen</a>
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  21     <h3>Entries tagged "robot".</h3>
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  25         <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/First_version_of_a_Perl_library_to_control_the_Spykee_robot.html">First version of a Perl library to control the Spykee robot</a>
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  28          9th October 2010
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  31         <p>This summer I got the chance to buy cheap Spykee robots, and since
  32 then I have worked on getting Linux software in place to control them.
  33 The firmware for the robot is available from the producer, and using
  34 that source it was trivial to figure out the protocol specification.
  35 I've started on a perl library to control it, and made some demo
  36 programs using this perl library to allow one to control the
  37 robots.</p>
  38
  39 <p>The library is quite functional already, and capable of controlling
  40 the driving, fetching video, uploading MP3s and play them.  There are
  41 a few less important features too.</p>
  42
  43 <p>Since a few weeks ago, I ran out of time to spend on this project,
  44 but I never got around to releasing the current source.  I decided
  45 today that it was time to do something about it, and uploaded the
  46 source to my Debian package store at people.skolelinux.org.</p>
  47
  48 <p>Because it was simpler for me, I made a Debian package and
  49 published the source and deb.  If you got a spykee robot, grab the
  50 source or binary package:</p>
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  52 <p><ul>
  53 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/~pere/debian/packages/lenny/libspykee-perl_0.0.20101009-1.tar.gz">libspykee-perl_0.0.20101009-1.tar.gz</a></li>
  54 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/~pere/debian/packages/lenny/libspykee-perl_0.0.20101009-1.dsc">libspykee-perl_0.0.20101009-1.dsc</a></li>
  55 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/~pere/debian/packages/lenny/libspykee-perl_0.0.20101009-1_all.deb">libspykee-perl_0.0.20101009-1_all.deb</a></li>
  56 </ul></p>
  57
  58 <p>If you are interested in helping out with developing this library,
  59 please let me know.</p>
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  65         Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/nuug">nuug</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/robot">robot</a>.
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  74         <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/My_first_perl_GUI_application___controlling_a_Spykee_robot.html">My first perl GUI application - controlling a Spykee robot</a>
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  77          1st September 2010
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  80         <p>This evening I made my first Perl GUI application.  The last few
  81 days I have worked on a Perl module for controlling my recently
  82 aquired Spykee robots, and the module is now getting complete enought
  83 that it is possible to use it to control the robot driving at least.
  84 It was now time to figure out how to use it to create some GUI to
  85 allow me to drive the robot around.  I picked PerlQt as I have had
  86 positive experiences with the Qt API before, and spent a few minutes
  87 browsing the web for examples.  Using Qt Designer seemed like a short
  88 cut, so I ended up writing the perl GUI using Qt Designer and
  89 compiling it into a perl program using the puic program from
  90 libqt-perl.  Nothing fancy yet, but it got buttons to connect and
  91 drive around.</p>
  92
  93 <p>The perl module I have written provide a object oriented API for
  94 controlling the robot.  Here is an small example on how to use it:</p>
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  96 <p><pre>
  97 use Spykee;
  98 Spykee::discover(sub {$robot{$_[0]} = $_[1]});
  99 my $host = (keys %robot)[0];
 100 my $spykee = Spykee->new();
 101 $spykee->contact($host, "admin", "admin");
 102 $spykee->left();
 103 sleep 2;
 104 $spykee->right();
 105 sleep 2;
 106 $spykee->forward();
 107 sleep 2;
 108 $spykee->back();
 109 sleep 2;
 110 $spykee->stop();
 111 </pre></p>
 112
 113 <p>Thanks to the release of the source of the robot firmware, I could
 114 peek into the implementation at the other end to figure out how to
 115 implement the protocol used by the robot.  I've implemented several of
 116 the commands the robot understand, but is still missing the camera
 117 support to make it possible to control the robot from remote.  First I
 118 want to implement support for uploading new firmware and configuring
 119 the wireless network, to make it possible to bootstrap a Spykee robot
 120 without the producers Windows and MacOSX software (I only have Linux,
 121 so I had to ask a friend to come over to get the robot testing
 122 going. :).</p>
 123
 124 <p>Will release the source to the public soon, but need to figure out
 125 where to make it available first.  I will add a link to
 126 <a href="http://wiki.nuug.no/grupper/robot/">the NUUG wiki</a> for
 127 those that want to check back later to find it.</p>
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 133         Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/nuug">nuug</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/robot">robot</a>.
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 142         <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Robot__reis_deg___.html">Robot, reis deg...</a>
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 144       <div class="date">
 145         21st August 2010
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 148         <p>I dag fikk jeg endelig tittet litt på mine nyinnkjøpte roboter, og
 149 har brukt noen timer til å google etter interessante referanser og
 150 aktuell kildekode for bruk på Linux.  Det mest lovende så langt er
 151 <a href="http://ispykee.toyz.org/">ispykee</a>, som har en
 152 BSD-lisensiert linux-daemon som står som mellomledd mellom roboter på
 153 lokalnettet og en sentral tjeneste der en iPhone kan koble seg opp for
 154 å fjernstyre roboten.  Linux-daemonen implementerer deler av
 155 protokollen som roboten forstår.  Etter å ha knotet litt med å oppnå
 156 kontakt med roboten (den oppretter et eget ad-hoc wifi-nett, så jeg
 157 måtte gå av mitt vanlige nett for å få kontakt), og kommet frem til at
 158 den lytter på IP-port 9000 og 9001, gikk jeg i gang med å finne ut
 159 hvordan jeg kunne snakke med roboten vha. disse portene.  Robotbiten
 160 av protokollen er publisert av produsenten med GPL-lisens, slik at det
 161 er mulig å se hvordan protokollen fungerer.  Det finnes en java-klient
 162 for Android som så ganske snasen ut, men fant ingen kildekode for
 163 denne.  Derimot hadde iphone-løsningen kildekode, så jeg tok
 164 utgangspunkt i den.</p>
 165
 166 <p>Daemonen ville i utgangspunktet forsøke å kontakte den sentrale
 167 tjenesten som iphone-programmet kobler seg til.  Jeg skrev dette om
 168 til i stedet å sette opp en nettverkstjeneste på min lokale maskin,
 169 som jeg kan koble meg opp til med telnet og gi kommandoer til roboten
 170 (act, forward, right, left, etc).  Det involverte i praksis å bytte ut
 171 socket()/connect() med socket()/bind()/listen()/accept() for å gjøre
 172 klienten om til en tjener.</p>
 173
 174 <p>Mens jeg har forsøkt å få roboten til å bevege seg har min samboer
 175 skrudd sammen resten av roboten for å få montert kamera og plastpynten
 176 (armer, plastfiber for lys).  Nå er det hele montert, og roboten er
 177 klar til bruk.  Må få flyttet den over til mitt vanlige trådløsnett
 178 før det blir praktisk, men de bitene av protokollen er ikke
 179 implementert i ispykee-daemonen, så der må jeg enten få tak i en mac
 180 eller en windows-maskin, eller implementere det selv.</p>
 181
 182 <p>Vi var tre som kjøpte slike roboter, og vi har blitt enige om å
 183 samle notater og referanser på <a
 184 href="http://wiki.nuug.no/grupper/robot/">NUUGs wiki</a>.  Ta en titt
 185 der hvis du er nysgjerrig.</p>
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 191         Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/norsk">norsk</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/nuug">nuug</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/robot">robot</a>.
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 199       <div class="title">
 200         <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/2_Spykee_roboter_i_hus__n__skal_det_lekes.html">2 Spykee-roboter i hus, nå skal det lekes</a>
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 202       <div class="date">
 203         18th August 2010
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 206         <p>Jeg kjøpte nettopp to
 207 <a href="http://www.spykee-robot.com/">Spykee</a>-roboter, for test og
 208 leking.  Kjøpte to da det var så billige, og gir meg mulighet til å
 209 eksperimentere uten å være veldig redd for å ødelegge alt ved å bytte
 210 ut firmware og slikt.  Oppdaget at lekebutikken på Bryn senter hadde
 211 en liten stabel på lager som de ikke hadde klart å selge ut etter
 212 fjorårets juleinnkjøp, og var villig til å selge for en femtedel av
 213 vanlig pris.  Jeg, Ronny og Jarle har skaffet oss restbeholdningen, og
 214 det blir morsomt å se hva vi får ut av dette.</p>
 215
 216 <p>Roboten har belter styrt av to motorer, kamera, høytaler, mikrofon
 217 og wifi-tilkobling.  Det hele styrt av en GPL-lisensiert databoks som
 218 jeg mistenker kjører linux.  Firmware-kildekoden ble visst publisert i
 219 mai.  Eneste utfordringen er at kontroller-programvaren kun finnes til
 220 Windows, men det må en kunne jobbe seg rundt når vi har kildekoden til
 221 firmwaren. :)</p>
 222
 223 <ul>
 224 <li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spykee">Wikipedia-oppføring</a></li>
 225 <li><a href="http://www.spykeeworld.com/spykee/US/freeSoftware.html">Nedlasting av firmware-kilden</a></li>
 226 <li><a href="http://wiki.nuug.no/grupper/robot">prosjektwiki hos NUUG</a></li>
 227 </ul>
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 233         Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/norsk">norsk</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/nuug">nuug</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/robot">robot</a>.
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