Artoo: Ruby on Robots

Re:Artoo: Ruby on Robots by trishume on Thursday March 19, 2015 @08:38PM (#9235594)

This is cool, but "on Robots" is a bit dishonest. Really it can only control robots, the "robot" has to have some exposed interface for a computer to control it, like the Firmata firmware for Arduino.

I forgive them though because they probably just call it "Ruby on Robots" for the parallel pun to "Ruby on Rails" rather than to make people think it actually runs on the robots.

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Re:Artoo: Ruby on Robots by andrewstewart on Thursday March 19, 2015 @09:10PM (#9235708)

Artoo actually can directly run on single-board Linux computers, such as the Beaglebone Black[1] or Raspberry Pi[2].

Running on such a device, it can in fact control other supported platforms connected to it, such as the Leap Motion or Sphero (with addon hardware as applicable).

For simpler stuff like the Arduino (or other micro-controllers), however, Artoo needs to run on a beefier host platform and connect to the device remotely.

[1]: http://beagleboard.org/black [2]: http://www.raspberrypi.org

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Re:Artoo: Ruby on Robots by mathgeek on Thursday March 19, 2015 @09:15PM (#9235729)

Just because it doesn't run on the basic Arduino boards doesn't mean it can't run on other chipsets. It runs just fine on Beaglebone, Raspberry Pi, newer Arduinos, and Intels.

Essentially, don't confuse the general robot with the highly specialized Arduino.

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