iPhone App Developed To Control NASA Robot

andylim writes "At EclipseCon 2010 attendees were challenged to create a robotic control system to drive a NASA-provided robot across a prototypical Mars landscape. To win the EclipseCon e4-rover Mars challenge, developers could either prove their e4 programming skills by creating the best e4-Rover client, or use an e4 client to operate the Rover through a series of tasks to collect points. Software architects Peter Friese and Heiko Behrens built an iPhone client for the EclipseCon challenge which controls the robot around NASA's Mars landscape using the iPhone's accelerometer."

Re:Hey look

[Anarki2004]

So every article that pertains to Apple is automatically an advertisement? I know there are indeed a lot of Apple articles on here, but slashdot is "news for nerds". Most of us like to hear about this kind of thing. If you visit a tech website, odds are you are going to read about some brand names in the news here and there. Does that really constitute an advertisement?

Re:Got to give them credit for originality

[aristotle-dude]

Doesnt the SDK specify the ability to just use it on one phone for testing or can they distribute it to other phones without another $99 dollar development tax per phone?

Im kinda pissed my tax dollars are used to develop of this shit locked in platform, but to also pay for the privilege is ridiculous. If this is the new NASA mentality, then perhaps we are better off cutting them down to size and letting private enterprise move into their space monopoly.

So let me get this straight, you are complaining about NASA spending 99 dollars? BTW. It is 299 dollars per institution for in-house corporate deployment. But 299 is nothing in comparison to the wages of a small team for just one hour of work. Compared to the cost of other projects or even the robots themselves, 299 dollars is nothing.