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Linux-powered, clarinet-playing robot wins prize (ComputerWorld)

[Posted June 20, 2008 by ris]

ComputerWorld Kenya takes a look at a Linux-powered, clarinet-playing robot. "The robot is controlled via an off-the-shelf microcontroller board from embedded systems company, Gumstix. "To get networking we plugged in a daughter board, and another board for the console, so we ended up with a stack of boards. The Gumstix board is an ARM processor running an Open Embedded Linux distribution," [Dr John] Judge told Computerworld."

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Posted Jun 22, 2008 2:15 UTC (Sun) by ejr (subscriber, #51652) [Link]

Now when someone manages a double reed, THEN I'll be impressed.  ;)