WiMo Robot - Windows Mobile 5 Cellphone as controller

Posted by pogo on August 4, 2008, 4:55 pm

Just saw an interesting article in MSDN Magazine on the WiMo robot.
Here's a link to the article:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc748660.aspx

Some links to get started:
http://www.wimobot.com/
http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Rory/Revisiting-WiMo-The-Windows-Mobile-Robot/

What really piqued my interest was this text at the very end of the article:
"Did you replace a Windows Mobile 5.0 device with a Windows Mobile 6 one? What's
your WM5 device doing now? You probably disabled
the cell phone service, but everything else should still work. If this is the
case, you've got a fully programmable mobile
computer collecting dust in a closet-you should do something with it. Build a
robot."

Using an old, out-of-date cell phone for a robot controller ! That's COOL!
JCD

Posted by Gordon McComb on August 5, 2008, 5:29 pm

pogo wrote:

>
> Just saw an interesting article in MSDN Magazine on the WiMo robot.
> Here's a link to the article:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc748660.aspx

>
> Some links to get started:
> http://www.wimobot.com/
> http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Rory/Revisiting-WiMo-The-Windows-Mobile-Robot/

Yeah, very fun stuff.

Did you recognize the tank base Brian used For WiMo II?...

-- Gordon

Posted by pogo on August 5, 2008, 8:18 pm

> pogo wrote:

>>
>> Just saw an interesting article in MSDN Magazine on the WiMo robot.
>> Here's a link to the article:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc748660.aspx

>>
>> Some links to get started:
>> http://www.wimobot.com/
>> http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Rory/Revisiting-WiMo-The-Windows-Mobile-Robot/

>
> Yeah, very fun stuff.
>
> Did you recognize the tank base Brian used For WiMo II?...

Why, fer cryin' out loud! I do believe it is the Robot Tank Base Kit sold by
Budget Robotics !!!!!
And for those interested, here's a link to that very kit:
http://www.budgetrobotics.com/shop/?shop=1&catI&carte3790

:-D

jcd

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