[Robotgroup] Welcome to the "Robotgroup" mailing list

[Kevin Blanchard]

I have played with the Hydra, it's a cool bit of hardware. It tends to 
be overkill for most of the projects I do but cool non the less :) 
Welcome to the group Andre. I have been an admirer of your work for a 
while.

Kevin

Andre Lamothe wrote:
> Hi there. Well, my background is in game development and writing books about 
> it, used to do FPS games in the 90's rex blade series, then started doing 
> casual games since they made better ROI, but in the gaming crash of 
> 1999-2000 the value market dried up, so I went back to my dream of 
> developing gaming hardware since I felt the time right was and people would 
> really like to learn how to generate NTSC video, VGA, and use a 
> microcontroller to develop a game console. So I designed a couple systems, 
> my latest is the HYDRA:
>
> http://www.xgamestation.com/view_product.php?id=33
>
> Which is based on the Parallax propeller chip. Which I highly recommend if 
> you're interested in robotics since it is an 8-core multiprocessor perfect 
> for asynchronous high performance processing, 32-bit, 20 mips per core, very 
> cool little processor. Comes in a 40-pin dip as well. My other systems are 
> based on SX52/28 processors. So my goal has been to engage people and 
> students learning EE and robotics with a fun way to present the material, 
> via video games and graphics since game dev pulls from all areas of science. 
> I would love to build toys that have video game aspects to them, like robots 
> that fight that transmit information to a little server that displays stuff 
> on the nearby TV, but that takes a lot of money for manufacturing. However, 
> I do have 3 manufacturers in china now that do my builds, so I am getting 
> closer to trying a pure consumer product rather than edutainment products 
> targets toward guys like us, that are "ok" with bare PCBs :) Right now I am 
> doing a 6502 game system and one based on the AVR as well.
>
> Andre'
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Eric Lundquist" <eric.g.lundquist at gmail.com>
> To: "The Robot Group Mailing List" <robotgroup at puremagic.com>
> Sent: Friday, November 16, 2007 1:13 PM
> Subject: Re: [Robotgroup] Welcome to the "Robotgroup" mailing list
>
>
> Hi Andre,
> Welcome to the group.  I like the idea of combining gaming and robotics.  A
> good example that comes to mind are the Sony Aibo's playing Robo Soccer of
> which UT Austin has a very active team.
> http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~AustinVilla/
>
> Which embedded system(s) are you working on?  We have a diverse group of
> people in the group who work on a variety of different processors depending
> on their preferences and experience.
>
> - Eric
>
>
> On 11/16/07, Andre Lamothe <ceo at nurve.net> wrote:
>   
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> Just added to the group. I am very interested in robotics, but haven't had
>> much time to build any robots since I have been working on embedded
>> systems
>> themselves (which can control robots :) primarily gaming consoles.
>>
>> Just wanted to say hi to everyone.
>>
>> Andre'
>>
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