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Idea

Personal Robot (perb)

cheap enaugh to fit most households budgets
easy to modify, extend and explore
distributed with proffesional-grade coding environment pre-configured to reduce learning curve and set of examples with permissive licencing ready to serve as a starting point for new projects

Delta type robot with easy to change geometry: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U746DKSbunU

IDE

Emacs powered-up with carefully chosen exstensions and pre-configured for smooth integration with perb software and sane defaults for any other software project.
Smooth start demo
- C++ based
- fully cross-platform (Linux, Windows, MacOSX, mobile platform support possible)
- multimedia rich (http://www.sfml-dev.org/ http://www.opengl.org/)
- XML based HMI with LUA or Python as JavaScript like 'document logic' (http://librocket.com/)
- all boring tasks covered by proffesional-grade libraries already integrated (http://pocoproject.org/ http://www.boost.org/ http://opencv.org/)
- easy extensible with scripting support (http://www.lua.org/ https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/ http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_55_0/libs/python/doc/)
- 1k lines of code
- ideal base for variety of software projects
Cloud Services
- collaborative coding environment (http://phabricator.org/)
- continuous integration (http://cdash.org/ http://jenkins-ci.org/)
- automated software and documentation release (http://www.cmake.org/)
Core perb software
- embedded
- thin client
additional software
- ROS
  
  http://www.ros.org/
- client designed to attract youngest explorers
  
  Maybe integration with scratch? http://scratch.mit.edu/ http://code.org/ http://mistrzowiekodowania.pl/
- chess
- paper&pen games
- calculator testing
- bug tracker
- 3D printer