LMR, global project, possible ?
2008-05-02 08:46
Hi everybody, I just had this crazy idea, and where else if not here to post it.
What about if we all build the first online open source robot as a community? I’ve seen some projects and profiles of the members here, and there are professionals, students and enthusiastic, which means that we all can contribute in the project.
I explain myself better: The objective of the project would be to create a robot where everybody contribute, sending Programs, Source Code, Electronics Schemes and real applications for the robot to create the first robot (as much complete in applications) made 100% online by people from all over the world in the LMR community. This would be advertising for the LMR site and who knows, perhaps we all become famous and we would be part of history because we would create the first robot as a global and online community.
The goal would be to present the robot in some international congress like the ‘’Robocup’’ or the ‘’Eurobot’’ by next year (2009) and also publish the advance with some white papers and articles. Also we would meet each other finally on that event.
I guess that we all can find sponsors to afford the construction of the robot and the main idea would be to keep the robot free and in an open source way to let people know our work and keep the contributions for the future.
I know this sounds crazy but if is not here, where else can I post my idea?
Just think about it.
Daniel
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I think that open source is
I think that open source is the future, and community work is the best way to get it on, yes, we can think in something like that, something that can run in a lot of difrente machins, like a Robot Vitrual Machine (comapring with Java VM) that can work with the hardware that we have, so each one of us can make our own test robot at home and contribute, and we can also make a big machine to use as final project to all the parts we done.
Have i expressed me well? think that ppl that know about java will understand it!
Just comment so we can brain-storm the ideas and go on.