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Robot hackathon connects with Android, browsers and the cloud
December 17, 2010
Posted by Ryan Hickman and Mamie Rheingold, 20% Robotics Task Force
Thanks to our hardware partners (iRobot, LEGO Group, and VEX Robotics), we never suffered a shortage of supplies. Designers flew in from London, and prototypes were passed between engineers in Tel-Aviv, Hyderabad, Zurich, Munich and California. In Mountain View, we gathered around every Thursday night, rigging up a projector against the wall to share our week’s worth of demos while chowing on pizza. And here is what we produced (so far!):
- App Inventor: Low level Bluetooth support for connecting with many serial-enabled robots, and of course tight integration with LEGO MINDSTORMS.
- Cellbots for Android: Brand new Java app from Cellbots.com, which is open source and available for free in the Android Market.
- Python library: Modularized version of the popular Cellbots project, which is all open source code.
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We hope these applications provide some fun and inspire you to build upon this lightweight connectivity between robots, Android, the cloud and your browser.