[hackerspaces] help with telepresence at CCCamp

[Chris Weiss]

rovio must make anyone in a skirt or kilt a little nervous...

On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 3:01 PM, Justis Peters <justis.peters at gmail.com> wrote:
> Here are some already-blazed trails in that direction:
>   http://www.wowwee.com/en/products/tech/telepresence/rovio/rovio
>   http://store.irobot.com/shop/index.jsp?categoryId=3311370
>
> http://www.instructables.com/id/iRover%3A-Remotely-controlled-iRobot-Create-or-Room/
>   http://www.instructables.com/pages/search/search.jsp?q=telepresence
>
> Kind regards,
> Justis
>
> On 02/04/2011 01:03 PM, Matt Joyce wrote:
>
> I remember seeing some lovely folks from CCC setting up an RC car with a ptz
> on it at HOPE two years ago.
>
> Since the Camps tend to have a considerable bandwidth available, maybe a
> similar solution would be the way to go.
>
> Setup a live flash feed, and some web controls for the RC vehicle and open
> it up to hackerspaces.
>
> The car camera could be accessed via wifi.  The controls... whatever...
> maybe xbee, maybe a standard RC  RF transmitter.
>
> I'd be down to work on it if someone else is willing to help out.
>
> On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 1:23 AM, Mitch Altman <maltman23 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Anyone good with telepresence?  Of course, you should be going to CCCamp
>> this August in Berlin
>> http://events.ccc.de/2010/08/10/chaos-communication-camp-2011, since it will
>> be an incredible experience for all who are there, but even if you aren't
>> there, you can help out by helping others who can't be there be as much a
>> part of it as possible.
>>
>> Nick Farr is helping organize this.  If you know anything about
>> telepresence, and making it work, could you please contact him?
>>      nick at hackerspaces.org
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Mitch.
>>
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