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TrackBot at Maker Faire

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Uploaded by on Aug 21, 2007

Systronix TrackBot chassis being controlled with a pair of Sun Microsystems SunSPOTs - one (mounted on the TrackBot) as the TrackBot application processor. The other is used as a 3D joystick by tilting it in the desired direction of motion. The joystick SPOT uses its 3-axis accelerometer to detect how it's being tilted.

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  • There is a lot of truth in what you say. Sun SPOTs can be shipped outside the US by Systronix (since May 2007) and also now are starting to ship outside the US by Sun direct. If Sun will license the SPOT JVM for commercial use, it could open up a lot of markets for ARM-based embedded Java.

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  • Great bot!

    I am sure Java has great potential in robotics too.

    But usually there are many problems yet: no free realtime java implementation (JSR1 or new version); no good standard hardware for small java devices, all go their own way (aJile, Cjip, JOP, jazelle...);

    and this SunSPOT cannot be shipped outside US :(

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