[Fedora Robotics] Introduction & Phidgets

[Hedayat Vatankhah]

/*"Egon Kastelijn" <egon at kastelijn.nu>*/ wrote on 09/11/2008 02:55:42 PM:
> Hello all,
>   
Hi Egon,

> I recently joined your robotics-list.
>
> Let me introduce myself:
> I am Egon Kastelijn and I live in The Netherlands.
>   
Welcome! :)

> I have been working on my personal robot for many years now, but I do not
> have any physical result yet. ;)
> This is mainly caused by the fact that my robot does not have a clear
> Mission yet, and that most of my time has gone into the Java brain that I
> am programming. (environment-modelling and path-planning)
>   
Good luck!

> Some time ago I discovered Phidgets.
> http://www.phidgets.com/
>
> Phidgets are easy to use USB devices (sensors-kits/motor-controllers/etc)
> that work very well under Linux. They can even be accessed using Java.
> The LGPL code that they provide compiles very well, but there are no RPMs
> (yet).
>
> So I decided to create them.
> I have a .spec file, and the rpmbuild produces a nice SRPM, i686 and
> x86_64 RPMs. (and debuginfo)
>
> My questions:
> * Is this (phidget hardware support) something that belongs within this SIG?
>   
I think it does!

> And:
> I am planning on putting the RPMs in my own yum repository soon.
> * Is there a way that I can contribute to get this software in the Fedora
> distribution?
>   
Yes, there is!
Check this first: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/Join
It takes some time (specially for the first time), but you can add any 
good open source packages to Fedora. I hope to see your RPMs soon :)


Cheers,
Hedayat

> kind regards,
>
>   Egon Kastelijn
>
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