Modular Robot

So /praggles/.

I plan on beginning the construction of a robot of sorts when school gets back in. In essence, it will be a small computer one wheels. Perhaps we will add a camera or something later.

I want programming to be added to the robot in modules, without recompiling it's "operating system." Essentially, I will write drivers for its motors and then wrap the drivers in python. There will be directories in the robot's filesystem for placing python scripts, and the operating code (C++) will load all python scripts in each directory (different directories indicate different manners of running the scripts) and invoke the python interpreter.

This would allow for the AI coding/any interfacing to be written in python rather than having to write C or C++ code and constantly recompile.

Recommendations on improvements to the system? Is python a decent choice of scripting language? Thoughts?

>Debian

Isn't Debian a bit to overkill for your purposes? Personally I'd go with something like Slitaz.

>>28

You could check out openCV

>>31
Isn't Linux a bit to overkill for his purposes? Personally I'd go with something like Movitz.

>>26
fuck you fagstorm

>>1
Use an Arduino. Why make everything harder on yourself, you inefficient useless bum?

>>33
Isn't Movitz a bit to overkill for his purposes? Personally I'd go with something like VxWorks.

use the ooc.robotics library

Nobody needs just another Linux/X86 based robot. They are useless period, except maybe your laziness.
But not even that

at least do what >>35
told you if you aren't skilled enough to write it from scratch.