Have you ever dreamed of building your own Linux-based droid [that could] roam around your home autonomously, intelligently obeying your commands?” asks Dafydd Walters. “You may now be able to finally fulfill your dream.”

Walters founded and leads the Open Automaton Project (OAP), which aims to help enthusiasts assemble an intelligent mobile robot with stereo vision and state-of-the-art PC mainboard technology — for about the cost of a good PC.

See bigger pictures of OAP and learn about its sonar, IR, wireless, and stereo vision subsystems in our fully detailed article, complete with system block diagram.

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