Peripherals/Robots

The main idea here is to manage a simple robot from the analogue output of the XO, the first to do is making a simple activity that send signals to a simple circuit connected to a couple of motors. The source code has to be visible for the children. then this motors have to be joined in a simple platform, made form recyclable materials, so the cost of the construction are very slow. This activity also has to be shareable by the means of the hellomesh activity. in a later stage of development the little robot has to be controlled remotely.

This page shows one example, an XO on top of a Roomba robot vacuum cleaner. This project cleverly uses the camera to show the robot's view on a webpage; the same page allows the robot to be driven remotely.

Within the 1A USB power limit, a few small hobby servos could be connected and run off of the OLPC's battery. They could easily receive a pulse width signal from the headphone port, or a $1 USD microcontroller to control them via USB.