{"id":392,"date":"2009-04-22T15:01:21","date_gmt":"2009-04-22T20:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/?p=392"},"modified":"2020-08-17T17:58:35","modified_gmt":"2020-08-17T17:58:35","slug":"olpc-robot-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/2009\/04\/22\/olpc-robot-project\/","title":{"rendered":"OLPC Robot Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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. <\/p>\n<p><code><object width=\"425\" height=\"425\" align=\"middle\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.instructables.com\/static\/flash\/viewer.swf\"><\/param><param name=\"quality\" value=\"high\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><param name=\"FlashVars\" value=\"title=OLPC-Telepresence\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.instructables.com\/static\/flash\/viewer.swf\" quality=\"high\" bgcolor=\"#ffffff\" width=\"425\" height=\"425\" align=\"middle\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" wmode=\"transparent\" FlashVars=\"title=OLPC-Telepresence\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/go\/getflashplayer\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/><font size=\"1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.instructables.com\/id\/OLPC-Telepresence\/\">OLPC Telepresence<\/a> - <a href=\"http:\/\/www.instructables.com\/\">More DIY How To Projects<\/a><\/font><\/code><\/p>\n<p>The robot base I want to use I just bought from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dale-robots.com\/catalog.htm\">Dale Robots<\/a>:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/?attachment_id=398\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-398\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.dan-kohn.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/ph-mrb01sm.jpg\" alt=\"ph-mrb01sm\" title=\"ph-mrb01sm\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/ph-mrb01sm.jpg 200w, https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/ph-mrb01sm-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><del datetime=\"2009-05-30T01:14:20+00:00\">I hope to use a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dankohn.info\/projects\/usbio24.html\">USBIO24<\/a> USB Digital I\/O Module to control the robot.<\/del><\/p>\n<p>Update (5\/29\/09): Just bought a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.starting-point-systems.com\/index.html\">uChameleon<\/a> USB control device, with:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>18 general purpose I\/O&#8217;s<\/li>\n<li>8 Analog inputs<\/li>\n<li>4 Analog outputs<\/li>\n<li>4 Timer channels<\/li>\n<li>1 SPI 3-wire serial port<\/li>\n<li>1 UART serial port<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>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)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/2009\/04\/22\/olpc-robot-project\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robot-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5593,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392\/revisions\/5593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}