Plugged in my TuxDroid this afternoon to charge up. Downloaded the setup kit a few minutes ago, installed the text-to-speech voices for English, fired up the test UI, and it worked. It blinks, it talks, it flaps its wings. It has beautiful big glowing blue eyes.
The only minor gotcha was that you have wait to plug in the USB dongle until after you install the drivers. Duh.
In the expo here at OSCon there is a booth with a cute little animated penguin toy. It's sort of like the Nabaztag wi-fi rabbit, except that it can do a lot more (open and close its beak, flap its wings, spin around, talk using text-to-speech, ...), costs quite a bit less, and all the software is open source. The company website is kyosh.com; there's also a user/community website at tuxisalive.com. The bottom of the box lists "fully Linux-compatible PC" under system requirements. How cool is that?
( And, it's cute and fluffy and its eyes light up )Yeah, I bought one. Darned near bought one for one of the kids, but I didn't think either of them wanted to learn to program it. I'll happily be proved wrong, though. Probably just as well; it's going to be tight in the suitcase with just one.
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