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Saw this posted over on LWG3D...

JackNJackN <font color=#99FF99>Lightwave Alien</font>
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[URL=http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/technology/technovel_912_041028.html]912[/URL]

There you go Biggles...

(except it's based on a Windows OS... :rolleyes: )

Comments

  • BigglesBiggles <font color=#AAFFAA>The Man Without a Face</font>
    Hackable robots for people at home are actually surprisingly common, although this is the most complete one I've seen so far. In the research area there are a lot more and often more complete, but they're a bit out of the average person's price range. :) Pity it runs windows.
  • An ex-SquidAn ex-Squid Elite Ranger
    If it's PC-based, then developing a Linux-based OS for it shouldn't be too difficult. I wouldn't be at all surprised if someone does come up with one within a year or two...
  • Vertigo1Vertigo1 Official Fuzzy Dice of FirstOnes.com
    [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by An ex-Squid [/i]
    [B]If it's PC-based, then developing a Linux-based OS for it shouldn't be too difficult. I wouldn't be at all surprised if someone does come up with one within a year or two... [/B][/QUOTE]

    Yeah, if they can make Linux fit onto a Playstation flash card.....
  • JackNJackN <font color=#99FF99>Lightwave Alien</font>
    A linux based robot.... Now that would be cool...

    :)
  • An ex-SquidAn ex-Squid Elite Ranger
    [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Vertigo1 [/i]
    [B]Yeah, if they can make Linux fit onto a Playstation flash card..... [/B][/QUOTE]
    If they can make a piece of bloatware like Windows work with it, then Linux shouldn't pose too much of a challenge (I did say Linux-[I]based[/I], after all;) ).
  • BekennBekenn Sinclair's Duck
    Getting Linux down to size should be no problem.

    Have you forgotten Damn Small Linux, which comes on a 48-MB ISO?
  • Vertigo1Vertigo1 Official Fuzzy Dice of FirstOnes.com
    [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Bekenn [/i]
    [B]Getting Linux down to size should be no problem.

    Have you forgotten Damn Small Linux, which comes on a 48-MB ISO? [/B][/QUOTE]

    Hell, the kernel is like 10MB or so. DS Linux can be found burned onto business card CDs. Same with Red Hat on occasion.
  • BigglesBiggles <font color=#AAFFAA>The Man Without a Face</font>
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root root [b]1682671[/b] Oct 26 12:16 bzImage-2.6.9-gentoo-r1-gb

    And that's a [b]big[/b] kernel. A small kernel is a few hundred KB at most. Tom's Root Boot and others have been putting linux on a single floppy for years. Sure, they don't have things like X, but you probably don't need X on a robot, and if you do then I'm sure it has more space to work with than a floppy if it's running windows.
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