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Open source sensor controller device shrinks
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| The Arduino Project has announced a new compact version of its open source
| Arduino microcontroller platform called the Arduino Nano. Meanwhile, winners
| of the Arduino Open Hardware Contest have been announced, and include a
| security system, a modular robot, and a sweater-clad haptic navigational
| device.
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| [...]
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| Libelium, a company in Zaragoza, Spain, organized Arduino's Open Hardware
| Contest. Libelium has used Arduino in two product designs, including its
| ZigBee-based SquidBee "mote" sensor (pictured at right), and a
| SquidBee-compatible x86-based multi-protocol mesh router called the Meshlium
| with a Debian GNU/Linux-based OS.
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http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS2049937266.html
Recent:
Do Open Source Robots Dream of Electric Sheep?
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| The effort to develop many versions of iCub includes open source access to
| the hardware design for iCub, free and open source software for imbuing iCub
| with skills, an open source version of iCub's underlying software platform,
| and a wiki with documentation.
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http://ostatic.com/163547-blog/do-open-source-robots-dream-of-electric-sheepss
A New Goal for Open Source
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| With the commitment of the AllemaniACs and others from the Fedora community
| the Fedora Robotics SIG was recently founded. It aims to make Fedora fit to
| run on a variety of robots that run (possibly constrained) compatible
| machines and to use Fedora as a development platform for robots. As always in
| Fedora, this is a community effort and all help is greatly appreciated and
| welcomed.
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http://www.press.redhat.com/2008/05/20/a-new-goal-for-open-source/
Related:
Robotics start-up Willow Garage believes open source OS will soon put robots in
our homes
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| The company will release its open source software at the same time.
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http://www.thestandard.com/news/2008/03/15/robotics-start-willow-garage-believes-open-source-os-will-soon-put-robots-our-homes
Personal robots coming, study finds
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| The personal robot market will be worth $15 billion annually by 2015,
| according to an ABI report. Most personal robots shipping today use
| proprietary OSes, although Linux is slowly migrating from the commercial to
| the consumer robot market, according to an ABI analyst.
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| [...]
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| One of the reasons for moving to Linux cited by the contestants was the fact
| that Sony's groundbreaking Aibo, which offered one of the most hackable APIs
| among personal robots, was being discontinued.
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http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS5330328149.html
A review of robotics software platforms
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| Today's nascent robotics market has engendered about 10 general purpose
| software development frameworks, including nine that support Linux. This
| article surveys seven of them, before wrapping up with an analysis of market
| trends likely to shape the robotics software landscape of tomorrow.
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http://www.linuxdevices.com/articles/AT5739475111.html
We, Robots: Open Source Robotics
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| Now Orocos is nothing like, say, the Linux kernel, which after
| some configuration and adding a number of tools, runs on pretty
| much any 32-bit and quite a few 64-bit architectures once would
| care to think of. Indeed, Orocos is likely to use the Linux kernel
| itself via a real-time interface to talk to hardware.
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http://www.tuxdeluxe.org/node/183
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