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Revisiting WiMo - The Windows Mobile Robot
Brian Cross is, like, really smart. That’s what I've decided.   He woke up one day and felt like building a robot... ...so he did. He's come along way from his early attempts, and he now has multiple hardware platforms which all tie into a single brain. That brain is a Bluetooth-enabled Windows Mobile SmartPhone. There's also some stuff that runs on a PC which was built with some of the Robotics bits that are available with Microsoft Robotics Studio. Brian uses the phone to direct the actions of the robots, as well as handle things like communications and image acquisition (yeah - these robots, like the various probes we've launched into space, like to send images back). I was floored by what I saw. And, for those of you who like what you see here, Brian has posted directions on the official WiMo site which describe how to build a robot similar to the one you'll see in the video. It's amazing what you can do with a computer, a phone, and a couple hundred bucks nowadays.
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Date Found: October 21, 2009
Date Produced: December 12, 2006
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