This is how the author, Matthieu Salvat, comments his idea:
"This idea came to my mind during a discussion with a teacher who uses BeeBot in her school. It is worth knowing that there are many robots available on the market nowadays, but most of them seem too 'complex' for simple actions. In the example I saw, the BeeBot was used to teach seniors at nursery school about the relative movement. I failed to find an alternative that would be less costly and/or Open Source."For this project he used tools (and colleagues) available in his office in Lannion:
"As a result, I started this side-project and made use of the 3D printers available at SOFT Lannion, my competence in Arduino as well as conducted a research for parts on AliExpress (thank you Gael Breard for helping me with the last two subjects)."Finally, the prototype cost 17€ in parts (plus around 3€ in transport fee) and didn't require any soldering to put together. Cart frame can be printed in a printer with 20cm x 20cm plate. See full list of materials along with instruction on Orange-OpenSource GitHub (French only).
Orange Open ROBOT – or OoRoBoT – is a project targeted towards young children (nursery school level), inspired by the idea of BeeBot. It’s a very simple robot that everyone is able to built on their own. The project had three constraints to meet: be entirely opensourced: GitHub page with the source code, list of […]
DempoDance allows anyone to gradually learn to dance the basic steps of Rock’n Roll, Mambo and Salsa. Dempo Dance. Source: www.primezone.orange-labs.com For each dance, you have a set of lessons explaining in detail the achievement of each step. At the end of each lesson you will be able to practice taking steps a number of […]
Skydive is an Open source project mainly developed by RedHat that gives a global view of a network and enables the user to install probe on it. It targets cloud deployments (OpenStack and Docker) and gives a good topological view of virtual switches. The new OVSOpenflow extension provides a way to visualize Openflow rules deployed on […]
Two new libraries have been published on Orange-OpenSource GitHub: Lexical-corrector – a C++ library and a java package for rapid lexicon access including correction (based on Levenshtein distance). It permits to define Levenshtein distance in function of typographical error (diacritics, case, adjoining keys). Text-tokenizer – a C++ library to segment raw text (UTF-8) into typed […]
Orange proudly presents an application dedicated to Java and Spring Boot developers and designed to spread our logging experience worldwide. Woofer is a showcase web app that both demonstrates best practices concerning the logging (based on the orange-mathoms-logging library), as well as provides an advanced Spring Boot-based microservices project sample. This project has been put […]
Orange Labs present Le Switch Tuner – an application that gives you an opportunity to listen to major French radio channels from your smartphone transformed into a transistor radio, thanks to cardboard and two buttons: one for the stations, another for the volume. See how it works on this video demonstration (in French). Cardboard kit “Le switch”. […]
Orange has recently published a Bash script that adds a new function for Shell programmers. The feature can be used in the “Homer SIP Capture” platform: a SIP monitoring tool that helps to monitor and diagnose errors by collecting the SIP traffic, information about media QoS and logs from SIP nodes. The purpose of the […]
After the success of Orange Boosted with Bootstrap, we are pleased to announce the publication of Orange Boosted with Angular. All the custom Orange components of Boosted 4, working with Angular 2. Learn more on ng-boosted.orange.com and go to Orange-Boosted-Angular repository on GitHub. The source code is licensed under the MIT license and the documentation […]
“Telephone” is a new Orange app that provides the customers with value added services such as Reverse Directory, Antispam and information on the cost of the calls with premium numbers. Screenshot from the app “Telephone”. “Telephone” helps you answer your calls serenely by managing your incoming and outgoing calls in a smarter and easier way! […]
New app called “Au petit bonheur la VOD” (Eng.”Hit and Miss VOD”), now available on Orange Labs Prime Zone, gives you the possibility to jump between searches and thus discover interesting videos to watch that you wouldn’t normally search for. It relies on the concept of serendipity, which means a pleasant surprise; discovering something by […]