I have given presentations about this robot several times over the last few years. From IEEE conferences to USENIX, including a 1st grade class in Milton, Massachusetts. I have mostly been focusing about the "why" and history of the Linux PC Robot (LPCR) and only tangentially touching on the technical details.

90% of the questions were kind of fluff and were of three basic categories of people: Those who knew almost nothing about robotics but were kind of curious, those who wanted to show off their own knowledge, or those who were generally curious. The last 10% were serious technical questions of which a general discussion would have the audience losing interest.

I was pulled aside after the USENIX conference for various discussions about how I did motor control, joystick, networking, interfacing Arduino, Arduinio code, and so on. It occurred to me that I needed to split up my normal presentation. One presentation will be about robotics generally and be aimed at a very non-technical crowd, the other, a "design guide" of sorts will include many more technical details about the development.

Also, the source code really isn't in any sort of easy to build format, it works fine in my overall development system, but it can be difficult to bootstrap a new development environment. I'm planning to change this. Lastly, the code is in CVS. Not that there is anything wrong with CVS, but "git" is a better system for providing access to code.