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And now where is the mallmusa

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*strolls in for another laff*

How far this robot project sef? u still dey find mallmusa? I hear he went on pilgrimage to Mecca, saw some microchips used for robots being sold near the mosque and tried to "collect" some. Saudi's no dey take that kain thing play. Enter Sharia.

As for the Financial contrib, I hope say this wan no be yahoozee? (anyway sha I dont have any reason not to trust "Saint" Fowe, at least not yet) .

BTW, I suggest we call the final robot ROBOTMUSA version 1, in honour of our missing colleague, maybe Saudi police go release am after they discover he was doing active "research" not stealing.

Kip on rocking

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guys i'm sorry i've not been consistent for some time, i've been trying to upgrade my knowlaege with programming with vb.net and also want ot work on some new circuit i am designing to be out on my bogger spot. when i'm done i'll send the site to this post. fowe thanks for the reminder.
i de feel joh.

what do we discuss on the robotic project, r we going to build robot fowe showed on the forum or design our own, based on parts available to us? i designed and built mine based on what i could get from within lagos and kaduna and it was firely successful 'cos i was working with someone who knew nothing about robotics. guys how do we met to start this stuff cos i've been itching to really get to do some thing real.

mallmusa, its good to ve you back and to know you ve been doing some personal development stuffs.

Where is your location presently...

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i'm in Abeokuta (Ogun state) serving in one the private University, Crescent to be presice. when i got enough time from work, i think i will start posting some mechanical stuff and some electronic design ideas i've 4 robotics.

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Its even cheaper than that, we can get a Qwerk Board from charmedlabs for less than $400. its only we would still spend money on some other logistics, thats what could increase the price.
Recently i saw another robotic kit, i made inquiries and they said its abt $800 after discount. Its looks kool, but it doesn't ve a camera, for the computer vision stuff we wanna do. So i think the Qwerk is still our best option so far. And the price i think its good news!

Regards

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Robots That Lie!

Read about it here: http://gizmodo.com/346029/scientists-in ... -than-ever

That seams interesting.

Mean while...there is an interesting embedded Linux device that we can do stuffs with: Gumstix. Anybody interested can check it out.
I would be doing some projects with it, and i would keep you guys posted.

Regards

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Fowe.
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Hey guys,

so whats next on this project?

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yea Fowe,

I'll find time to do that. I read it a bit yesterday not all.

Keep up the good work bro

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BigDog

This is the state-of-the-art of one of world's most sophisticated robots!

Enjoyyyy

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Guys,

Welldone for a good job so far. I've read through the post from the very beginning to the end. I noticed that the intent of the robotic project has been defined. However, i noticed also that there has been gaps in the posting periods indicating an undulating enthusiasm. Of course i'm one of the irregular "posters". Anyways i have these suggestions to make as a way forward.

1. Let us identify, in a list, the people interested in these project with their core competence where they can make tangible (be it in project management, electronics, software, requirements analysis, documentation mechanical, etc)contributions.

2. I suggest that Fowe put his 10 steps on a document and circulate it amongst the enthusiasts. Also, we need to prepare a serious documentation in the spiirt of the posts so far for the purpose of this project. What i mean is this: we already defined what we want to do in a general discussion via the various posts. Now we need to be very specific by creating definite teams with leaders and responsibilities. Lets identify a project manager/engineer to coordinate and manage the project. Lets define the specifications of this project up to the intended overall weight of the bot and other seemingly mundane details. This will give us a complete project documentation from where we can proceed.

3. Lets set a definite time limit for this project and lets make it happen. Its in us to do it. you know!

Concerning finances our documentation will tell us how much we need and we'll all brainstorm how we'll get it. I believe it can't be a difficult task getting it. But we need to have a direction first.


So, in summary, all i'm saying is that we formulate a project team with a leader NOW which will have sub-teams with definite responsibilities.

As for me, i really want to work on this project but i'm very occupied. However, any task i've accepted to take up, i deliver on them. Hence i might not make regular posts however, i will when i can.

So lets have inputs.

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@Hints, Nice post!
I think we still need to do few things b4 we get to that stage delineated.
Most of us can read up news on robotics and watch youtube just like the one posted up there or even build robots by ourselves. But i think the real fun is in the collaboration.
But it seams the so-called enthusiasts are more scarce than i thought...hence there might be need for more publicity for the project.
Another thing is the category of people...i tut students would be more interested in this, because they have more time, and they have a knowledge platform to build on. So far i am not sure if enough undergrads have shown interest.
So i think we need to get students aware about this. Until we have a stable team, its difficult to talk team leads or deadlines. Because our aim is not just to build a robot...but to collaborate in building it!

Let more suggestions and contributions flow

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Alright then! You're the boss!

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@Hints, I think you would do us a lot of speed and favor..if you had some flesh to the Electronic/hardware part of some of the robotics devices already mentioned.
Just give us your own useful whatis and howto's of whatever you can contribute to the project.
I am trying to do the same thing with some of the d pictures, links ve posted and with this topic on programming embedded systems
I created a separate topic..because Gumstix is new and its of great interest to the international community...so that any of them that come find it can get what they want and not our private Nigerian project..

While we work on the publicity of this project...we can in the main time condense knowledge here so that when the real team finally emerge we have all the materials!

Regards

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good to have an opportunity to contrib.

uhmmmmmmn. i just wanted to find out the progress of the project.
it;s been about 5 years now. how far with it? completed? in progress?
i'll love to know. thanks

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