Pleo Busts Some New Moves Thanks To Alpha SDK
Writing by Evan Ackerman on Monday, 31 of August , 2009 at 12:50 am
Pleo does not, fortunately, come with the ability to dance to Britney Spears songs while wearing funny hats. That is Britney Spears, right? These new moves come courtesy of an alpha version of a Pleo SDK, or software development kit. The Pleo SDK (PDK) should allow more direct access to Pleo’s underlying controls, in addition to the various home-brewed bits of software that are currently available, like MySkit.
From what I’ve been able to gather, the most important part of the PDK might be the the code for things like Pleo’s social programming, which could potentially allow Pleo’s autonomy (read: personality) to be modified as well. This is a little ways away, though… As I understand it, access to an SDK gives clever programmers the tools they need to build user-friendly programs to give less adept people the ability to control hardware on a level that they’re more comfortable with. The availability of the SDK is the first step, but it’ll take a little bit for it to get worked into something for your average end user. The good news is that it looks like Ugobe intentionally made Pleo easy to hack and customize in this way, so we’ll keep you updated as progress is made.
Oh, and just a reminder that Pleo is going to resume production (resume, not necessarily with anything new), but it’s currently about $150 on Amazon, which is only $10 over the manufacturing cost, and about $50 under the wholesale price.
[ BobThePleo ] VIA [ Engadget ]
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Comment by Justbede
Made Tuesday, 8 of September , 2009 at 9:46 pm
Anyone wanting to see what is possible with the PDK should check out the bob the pleo forums where there is now a couple of examples of early work with it. I myself have an example of Pleo being controlled by a tv remote which using the examples included in the PDK is easy to replicate.