Tux Droid

Short description: Wireless Tux mascot

The Tux Droid

Tux Droid is a Linux wireless Tux mascot (210mm × 180mm × 140mm - with lowered wings) with a programmable interface, allowing it to announce events by its gestures and by ALSA driven sound. The events are detected by specific gadgets, which are handled by the Tux Gadget Manager. The Tux Droid supports Linux kernel 2.4 or later and needs an 800 MHz CPU and 128 MB RAM. Communication from Tux Droid to the computer is via signalling operating in the 802.11 WLAN band, but not compatible with Wi-Fi. The receiver resembles a plastic fish, and connects to the host computer's USB port. An infrared remote control is supplied; signals from this are received by Tux Droid and sent to the host software over the wireless link. For media detection it needs an internet connection. The mascot is driven by Atmel AVR RISC microcontrollers. The new version supports also Windows-based PCs. The Tux Droid can be used with Windows XP and Windows Vista (both at 32 Bit).

Information

Kysoh society has filed for bankruptcy in August 2010. Official sites are unavailable. Two communities are available to get help and information on Tux Droid.

See also

• Speech synthesis
• Tux

External links

• https://www.tuxdroids.com/learn-more/ (Stock available in 2023)
• http://tuxdroid.linuxfriendly.nl/index.php/s/SHJegqKJCoZJGs2/download (Windows and Linux Applications and Manuals)
• https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxZmfh4TBuS1nVkgj2jBe0wveSlaYfPr4&jct=lAHCmPOucB5GfuaPiO9b719vbZe-IQ (YouTube playlist about the TUX Droid)
• homepage of Tux Droid
• Tuxdroid-community – Unofficial Community (in French)
• joelmatteotti at github