Asciirovio - Console application for Rovio mobile webcam. A text mode console application for controlling the WowWee Rovio mobile webcam robot.
Video feed is converted to ASCII, and drive commands are issued from the keyboard. Rovio works just fine with Linux because it's controls are browser based. I did think it would be quite amusing though to have a special console interface to the Rovio, naturally text based and running in a terminal. Since the idea of it amused me so, I went ahead and made one. Because I like free software I'll provide it here to the world. Welcome to your new Wikidot site - Rovio Linux. Robot Division - Rovio. Rovio item #8033 by WowWee UPDATE: Thanks to a fantastic Woot deal of the day, I picked up a Rovio for a hundred bucks.
Now that I have both Rovio and Spykee, I can more accurately compare the two. Everything that I praised Rovio for from having read reviews is true. In most every manner, Rovio is the far superior robot. ROVIO-1.1 (LINUX).zip. ROVIO-1.0 - (linux).tgz.