Still Waiting ... Now Into Setting Up Environments

I am still waiting for the KIPR Open Ruleset to be placed online.  Gee, it sounds like I am chomping at the bit on this one.  It would be disastrous if I discovered that I wasn't smart enough to solve the riddle that is KIPR Open.  Luckily, I have a whole bunch of people that I can tap into for advice on this one.  I also have quite a few that have volunteered to help me put the robot(s) together.  I still don't know what strategy to use or the number of robots that I will need for the competition.  That will also probably change as the rules are changed during these next few months.  I will be concentrating on the programming environments for the Ubuntu Laptop, the Chumby, and the Command Module.  I have already loaded ROS onto the Ubuntu Laptop.  I was surprised at how large it is when you add the complete ubuntu environment to it.  I need to make sure that it will fit on the Chumby in the near future.  I have started to look at the ROS site to see how they managed to get ROS on the Beagle Board and on other embedded Linux boards.  That would be closer to what I have to deal with.  The neat thing is that if I can get the Chumby setup, at least in a minimal configuration, I will be able to try out some algorithms on the Laptop and use the ROS elements to communicate with the Chumby to execute the overall program.  That way, I will have experience in setting up ROS on a smaller base and have some programming background when I actually do get around to figuring out what to do with the KIPR Open ruleset.  I'm keeping my fingers crossed.