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Mac Mini Robot

MAKE pal Jason Striegel from blogcadre.com writes "Here's a telerobotic Mac Mini based on the Pioneer 3at platform. I guess they intend to expand this into a fully autonomous unit that uses lidar and the iSight camera for guidance and obstacle avoidance. Right now they control it over a wireless connection and use ichat to provide a remote video feed". Link.

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Posted by: LAME on September 11, 2005 at 10:29 AM

I wish the article had a little more in-depth information about how they made it, but this is a really cool story, thanks

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Posted by: ajturner on September 15, 2005 at 4:42 AM

I worked with George Storm on his MacMini robot at the 2005 ADHOC/MacHack programming conference. We got the MacMini robot to successfully autonomously track objects using vision control. To demonstrate, we wrapped some green gaffers tape around our legs and the robot would follow us around.

Read more about the bTop Robot

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Posted by: besut on February 19, 2008 at 10:24 AM

kimak nye mat saleh ko bkn pro pon ko ni jenis babi sial mak ko lah lahanat

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