Robot Division - Spykee Spykee item #870850E by Erector/Meccano Due to problems with Spykee's charging base overcharging the battery, Meccano has issued a replacement charging dock that has a built-in four hour shut off timer. This is available to all current Spykee owners free of charge. All you have to do is send an email to with your full name and your mailing address. For more information on this issue, please visit. I have recently been looking into purchasing a telepresence robot. Currently, the only two options available are and Spykee. I haven't been able to decide which one to get, yet.

Here I will try to point out all of the pros and cons of Erector's contribution to the robot world. Maybe after I finish these two pages, at least you'll know which one you want. Well, I decided on Spykee after a host of bidding on eBay.

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After an anxious week waiting for our newest member to arrive, we spent the better part of an evening putting him together - almost four hours! Then, I spent two days trying to figure out how to get the freaking thing to work! Although you can install the proprietary software on a Linux system under Sun's VirtualBox, I could not get Linux to maintain a connection to the robot's server in AdHoc mode - a requirement for setting the parameters in the robot itself.

I wound up having to run the software on a true Windows XP machine with an external USB wireless adapter. I was then able to set up the robot's server to connect over a local wireless connection. Download the da vinci code full movie in hindi in hd mkv free. Then the real fun began. Using a supposedly open-source software package (Meccano has yet to honor the GPL agreement and release their code) you can control Spykee remotely over the internet from anywhere in the world. This means that you can go on vacation and still be able to keep tabs on your home home - just log in to Spykee, drive him around the house and use the built-in camera and microphone to monitor what you're missing. The first problem is that the software only runs on PCs and Macs.

If you run Linux on your laptop, as I do, or you want to use your iPhone or PDA, your out of luck. Also, to be able to use Spykee remotely, you must first register and account with SpykeeWorld.com - the official web site. Bumn standalones. I don't like the idea of my audio and video transmissions going through a third-party web site. Call me paranoid. On top of that, what happens if and/or when that web site goes down? We all know that products are not supported indefinitely. When the company no longer hosts that site, will your $300 robot become a really expensive paper weight?