Hello all,
I recently joined your robotics-list.
Let me introduce myself: I am Egon Kastelijn and I live in The Netherlands. I have been working on my personal robot for many years now, but I do not have any physical result yet. ;) This is mainly caused by the fact that my robot does not have a clear Mission yet, and that most of my time has gone into the Java brain that I am programming. (environment-modelling and path-planning)
Some time ago I discovered Phidgets. http://www.phidgets.com/
Phidgets are easy to use USB devices (sensors-kits/motor-controllers/etc) that work very well under Linux. They can even be accessed using Java. The LGPL code that they provide compiles very well, but there are no RPMs (yet).
So I decided to create them. I have a .spec file, and the rpmbuild produces a nice SRPM, i686 and x86_64 RPMs. (and debuginfo)
My questions: * Is this (phidget hardware support) something that belongs within this SIG? And: I am planning on putting the RPMs in my own yum repository soon. * Is there a way that I can contribute to get this software in the Fedora distribution?
kind regards,
Egon Kastelijn