I have an old Chumby One that I wanted to use as a robot controller. GroG installed MRL on a USB stick and I had an external USB hub to connect the stick, the webcam, the Arduino and a Roomba interface. I'm trying to get rid of the USB hub, so here is the new setup:

- MRL on a partition directly on a larger uSD card in Chumby

- Arduino moved from USB-FTDI to hardware serial interface

- webcam directly on the USB port

- no more Roomba, different robot hardware

- an image displayed on the Chumby's frame buffer (display) like a face of the robot - eyes, mouth, static at first, then perhaps something animated, like blinking eyes, moving mouth when speaking, etc

I intend to run MRL on Chumby with services that will control the motors, servos and sensors on the Arduino board, then what ever else I can run on the limited RAM of Chumby, like text to speech, voice rec, webcam streaming to the pc, etc. Start simple and develop from there.

Will be continued...

 

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