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My first WiMo

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I'll be leaving for Kuala Lumpur on the 7th for TechEd SEA and have 2 sessions to present there. While I'm there, they've asked me to present to the academia on Windows Mobile and Robotics. So I went out and got a Lego Mindstorm NXT set and went to the Brian Cross's WiMoBot site for the assembly instructions.

The main bot chassis took me over an hour thanks to his clear instructions. The software however took me a while to get running. It has many moving parts.

  1. Lego NXT Code
  2. WiMo NETCF Code
  3. Robotic Studio DSS services

The way this works is you use a GUI designed to work with the Coordination and Concurrency Runtime (CCR) to communicate with the robotic studio Decentralized System Services (DSS) which in turn will talk to the Windows Mobile NETCF application on the phone via bluetooth. The NETCF app will use bluetooth to send instructions to the Lego NXT brick to execute the pre-installed RBT files to move the servos or receive signals from its sensors.

This is how my final WiMoBot looks like. And yes, that is an actual Windows Mobile 6 SDK CD.

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*UPDATE* I've changed the phone from a HTC Cavalier to a HTC Star Trek to emphasize that a PHONE is powering this robot. The Clamshell form factor looks more like a phone than the QWERTY phone.

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  • Anonymous
    September 03, 2007
    PingBack from http://msdnrss.thecoderblogs.com/2007/09/03/my-first-wimo/

  • Anonymous
    September 03, 2007
    I like it? What can it do? Can it fetch beer yet?

  • Anonymous
    September 03, 2007
    I'm working on a beer fermenter robot that takes yeast, hops, barley and water and outputs either pale, amber or dark beer. Pretty sweet :)

  • Anonymous
    September 03, 2007
    looks real cool - but is this just a mobile 6 cd or do you have mobile6 on the StrTrk?

  • Anonymous
    September 04, 2007
    haha it's just the CD. the Star Trek unfortunately runs on WM5 :(

  • Anonymous
    September 06, 2007
    Lego? Why, you going back to your childhood days already? :)

  • Anonymous
    September 07, 2007
    hahah because you took all my lego when we were growing up ;)

  • Anonymous
    September 13, 2007
    really coool.. first time saw it in your presentation at TechED SEA!

  • Anonymous
    October 10, 2007
    C'est le mélange détonnant auquel Loke s'est essayé. Voyez plutôt le résultat . Il s'agit d'un Wimobot,