BamBam

From TheRobotGroupWiki

BamBam is a 66 MHz. 80486 PC. The system was originally put together by Carlos Puchol. Carlos and others developed a variety of software for controlling Glenn Currie's Mobile Platform. Movement commands were generated by moving a joystick attached to BamBam and sent to the motor control computer on the Mobile Platform via radio MODEMs. Live video was sent from the Mobile Platform to the contol computer via a 900 MHz. analog wireless link. The received video was routed to a video frame grabber in BamBam and displayed in an X-Window on the work station. Carlos Puchol wrote the custom Linux device driver for the frame grabber card. Additionaly, X-Windows software was written to interpret the movement commands and draw a map in an window on the work station. The system was demostrated at Robofest 5. The system is being upgraded by moving the base station software to an newer computer that is part of the RobotBrain project and adding an on-board laptop with 802.11b wireless link to the RobotBrain to replace the older radio MODEMs.