Windows Mobile Robots and spot

This is a story about two robots. I remember that when transformers was hit, I fantasized about when I could create a robot of my own. Later, I learned about computer science and robotics as a specialized discipline; later, I was far away from the electronics and my dream.

Today, when browsing the Windows Mobile Team blog, I suddenly saw an interesting ROBOT: wimo. Http://blogs.msdn.com/windowsmobile/archive/2006/05/13/596684.aspx ). The first way to see wimo is to laugh. This is also called a robot? However, when people use the existing smartphone as the control system and do not develop any complicated hardware devices themselves, they can implement a robot. What is this? This is called "software is power ". I think so too. Can I compare the cost of developing a robotic hardware with that of a mass production smartphone? This is the right path for our software engineers who lack the background in electronic engineering to take advantage of the existing hardware to maximize the power of the software.
Wimo's control system is also very cool. It turns out to be a Pocket PC. It uses Bluetooth to control wimo. The software development also makes full use of the existing class libraries, and most of the Code is implemented using C. In order to use DirectShow to collect photos, the author wrote a native layer, but finally called it through C.
I have to admire the US version of Xiaomi and rifle. This is definitely not comparable to the regular development of robots. However, the biggest shock that wimo brings to everyone is that, in today's software industrialization, we can still see some whimsy about personal heroism. Maybe we should also raise our heads after tedious work every day, and think about our dream when we were young before complaining that the boss didn't give you 20% free time. A seemingly impossible task can be achieved in a simple way. Wimo really shocked me.
The man also said he would publish the wimo Method to the Internet, even if there is no background in electronic engineering. Reading is one thing. Copying is another thing. Some circuit boards are hidden under the CD. The most difficult thing about robot is the transmission mechanism. I don't know how this guy controls it. Let's wait.

Another message about robots comes from MEDC. Mike hall hosts a sumorobot competition, where sumorobot uses. Net microframework. Just like Java has a smart card JVM (is this name ?), Microframework is A. Net CLR for embedded devices, which is smaller than. NET Compact framework. This sumorobot should be the second file of microframework, and the first one should be smart watch. At that time,. Net microframework was also called spot, and the. net clr was called tinyclr. Spot is not even running on an operating system. It only includes three parts: bootloader, Hal, and CLR, 200-400 k, and only supports about 100 APIs, it can be said that it is a super lightweight player.
However, spot is suitable for embedded platforms. Although it currently only supports C #, it is a dream for embedded developers to have an IDE like Visual Studio 2005. The target platform of spot is arm7. If we imagine, we can port the spot on a customized embedded platform, and then use C # To write the application. Applications can be applied to different platforms with few changes. This temptation is too big.
However, we do not know the spot authorization yet. Everything can only stay at the hypothetical stage. However, it seems that spot is a very promising technology, including its application in robotics.
The following are some of the spot connections, most of which are related to Chris tacke. It seems that this guy has a considerable research on spot.
MEDC 2006 experiments on sumorobot:
Http://blog.opennetcf.org/ctacke/PermaLink,guid,cf3e3fef-a282-4845-b347-519fe31a45a9.aspx
Spot on opennetcf:
Http://blog.opennetcf.org/ctacke/CategoryView,category,SPOT.aspx
Tinyclr:
Http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/84123.htm
Other connections:
Http://www.danielmoth.com/Blog/2006/05/net-micro-framework.html
Http://www.windowsfordevices.com/articles/AT6914689493.html