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?

>>39

why do you want to make a robot then? Maybe you should just make a virtual one with a virtual camera and simulate everything if you don't want to deal with real stuff.

>>41
Because dealing with real stuff is ultimately more interesting. Using Linux to build the robot solves the problems that aren't interesting to me, and leaves room for me to solve the ones that are.

>>42
KEEP IT SIMPLE STUPID

>>42

alright, well that's cool. Having an intense computer will let you do some intense image processing, so that is a good thing. I think you should consider using a language that will maximize speed, as getting a good frame rate for the robot is important. You could imagine how difficult it might be to move yourself through a room if you can only see the world at 1 frame per second. But if you can get something acceptable with python, then more power to ya.

>>44 My anus is very intense right now.

>>28
http://luajit.org/performance_x86.html

i want a roboter so that im no more lonly im fucking 22 and live by my parent fuck you major depresion fuck you sozialphobi cose i cant stand it if peopel see deprest im fuck you mastrubation for making me stupid fuck you alcohol for let me write this shit

>>46
Woah, I had no idea LuaJIT had been ported to ARM and PPC.

Android / iRobot?

...Just thinking it might be easier to attach wheels to a handheld device /// less extra battery required to get it motoring? compared to a laptop on wheels...

Should still have a heap more grunt than a 8-bit micro-processor...

^F FPGA, nothing found. oh.

OP, buy lego mindstorms.