Summer Project “OpenIntelligentRobot” and Help Needed!

John Roach — Tue, 25 May 2010 14:33:19 +0000

I’ve been mulling over an idea all winter. Trying to come up with different projects that could be done using Beagle-board and Arduino. The project is (you hear drum-roll here) “Building An Intelligent Robot”. I know it’s already been done however I have some additional ideas to put in project. All code will be open source. So if you want to build your own you could read up in this site.Oh and I really do need help. Especially financially. So if you are interested please drop me a line. My doodling is as below to give you an idea.

Setting up a CVS server for the BlackBox project

John Roach — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 09:05:28 +0000

Following the previous posts in this category you will notice that I was using Sourceforge.net as the code hosting. We had to change that because we really didn’t want to share every bit of code. ( A big sorry to open source developers. I am truly a sell out. ) So had to set up CVS server. Never done that before. Should probably add it to my CV. Anyways to business.

How to set up a CVS server using SSH :

Step 1 : Install CVS to Fedora. My Fedora distro came with CVS since I chose developer properties during installation. However you may not have it to install simply say;

sudo yum install cvs

Step 2 : Create a cvs user and group! Just follow the code below;

useradd cvs


groupadd cvs
mkdir /home/cvs
cvs -d /home/cvs init
useradd cvs
groupadd cvs

mkdir /home/cvs
Step 3 : Set permissions and add /home/cvs directory to cvs by using the following;

cvs -d /home/cvs init


chown -R cvs:cvs /home/cvs
chmod -R 770 /home/cvs

chmod 700 /home/cvs/CVSROOT

Step 4 : Now you have to add your project to the CVS server. I assume you have a ~/project directory on the server. Just follow the following commands;

cd ~/project


cvs -d /home/cvs import -m "Initial Import" project myname release

cvs -d /home/cvs checkout project

Step 5 : Add an account to the CVS server (preferably with the same username and password of the user acount you have created for the CVS server that will connect through SSH.) Use the following by replacing and

echo ":" >> /home/cvs/CVSROOT/passwd

Step 6 : Make sure you have created a user to connect through SSH give him CVS group permission.

And that is that. It should work. Though you may need to do some changes in Step 3. To connect you can simply use the following code or just use Eclipse’s IDE ( that is what we are using. )

export CVS_RSH=ssh


cvs -d :ext:user...@repository.host.name:/home/cvs login

cvs -d :ext:user...@repository.host.name:/home/cvs co moduleName

I hope it will be helpful. Peace!

Robots go Open Source!! Thanks to Willow Garage Watch Video

John Roach — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:13:38 +0000

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Summer Project “OpenIntelligentRobot” and Help Needed!

Setting up a CVS server for the BlackBox project

Robots go Open Source!! Thanks to Willow Garage Watch Video