I've been day dreaming off and on lately of starting a project to design robots with mp3 players for brains. Most players that run Rockbox have at least a com/usb port and of course audio capture/audio output.
The Com or USB port would be for sending and receiving information to and from the "body" of the robot. The disk capacity can store instructions and collected data. These two things are simple but, the real innovation would come by using the audio input/output system of the mp3 player, along with some home brew transceiver circuits and some guru level code, as a wireless communications channel. And perhaps I could strap it all on top of a Hex bug. Honey, you now know what I want for my birthday.
But for now just a dream...
Sunday, January 15, 2012
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