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Basic Operations for Furo
Author: Alex Cater
Email: cater@unlv.nevada.edu
The following tutorial will go over the basic operations for Furo. Furo is a service robot equipped with an on-board webcam and touch screen and is meant to be interactive with the user. Furo can follow you, talk to you with simple commands, play music, dance and many other things. I will discuss the absolute basics such as turning on/off Furo, how to charge and run Furo, make Furo dance and play music as well as a small introduction to programming Furo with Qt.
====Part 1: Furo materials====
Below is a picture of Furo.
She comes equipped with a charger which is pictured below.
Furo's on-board battery is not the best and can only operate for a few hours at full charge so I suggest keeping the charger plugged into Furo while programming/operating. The charger can be plugged into the back and tightened down in the slot shown below on the left. The middle switch turns on/off Furo and the USB port on the right allows you to connect other devices.
After flipping the switch to turn Furo on you will be loaded into a Grub screen. There are two operating systems on Furo, 32-bit Ubuntu 14.04 and 32-bit Windows Embedded Standard. We will be focusing on the Windows portion of Furo for this tutorial. Although the screen is touchscreen it is best to have a keyboard and mouse connected since we do not have touchscreen supported on Ubuntu and because it is laggy in Windows. Note, it is labeled as “Windows Vista” in Grub. Also, for future reference the password to log into Ubuntu is double space bar.
Once logged in you will come to the windows main screen shown below. Inside the red circle is the shortcut that lets you explore some of Furo's actions and services. The purple circle is the folder to Furo's Qt files that will allow us to program Furo however we like.
Click on the Furo shortcut.