I have a One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) computer and am thinking about using it with a robot base I have (see below) to create a telepresence robot and the stuff below will be a good place to start.
OLPC Telepresence - More DIY How To Projects
The robot base I want to use I just bought from Dale Robots:
I hope to use a USBIO24 USB Digital I/O Module to control the robot.
Update (5/29/09): Just bought a uChameleon USB control device, with:
- 18 general purpose I/O’s
- 8 Analog inputs
- 4 Analog outputs
- 4 Timer channels
- 1 SPI 3-wire serial port
- 1 UART serial port
It will make a better controller than the USBIO24 since it can do PWM and has more I/O capabilities. (That is IF it works on the OLPC at all)