blog/data/2010-10-09-spykee.txt

   1 Title: First version of a Perl library to control the Spykee robot
   2 Tags: english, nuug, robot
   3 Date: 2010-10-09 14:00
   4
   5 <p>This summer I got the chance to buy cheap Spykee robots, and since
   6 then I have worked on getting Linux software in place to control them.
   7 The firmware for the robot is available from the producer, and using
   8 that source it was trivial to figure out the protocol specification.
   9 I've started on a perl library to control it, and made some demo
  10 programs using this perl library to allow one to control the
  11 robots.</p>
  12
  13 <p>The library is quite functional already, and capable of controlling
  14 the driving, fetching video, uploading MP3s and play them.  There are
  15 a few less important features too.</p>
  16
  17 <p>Since a few weeks ago, I ran out of time to spend on this project,
  18 but I never got around to releasing the current source.  I decided
  19 today that it was time to do something about it, and uploaded the
  20 source to my Debian package store at people.skolelinux.org.</p>
  21
  22 <p>Because it was simpler for me, I made a Debian package and
  23 published the source and deb.  If you got a spykee robot, grab the
  24 source or binary package:</p>
  25
  26 <p><ul>
  27 <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>
  28 <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>
  29 <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>
  30 </ul></p>
  31
  32 <p>If you are interested in helping out with developing this library,
  33 please let me know.</p>