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As promised, below are the rules for the Off-Road RC Racing competition to be held at BricksWest 2003. -- David Schilling Off-Road RC Racing Competition Official Rules ===...=== Objective: Before the competition, competitors will design and build an (...) (23 years ago, 20-Dec-02, to lugnet.events.brickswest, lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: New Version of leJOS
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(...) (URL) (23 years ago, 20-Dec-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: Tempted in buying my first Mindstorms invention kit - 1.5 vs 2.0 ?
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I have observed a bit of sloppiness in the manufacture of the RCX's such that, in some cases, the IR diodes aren't mounted perfectly horizontally, they may be at an angle which will affect the apparent range. Opening the case and re-aligning the (...) (23 years ago, 20-Dec-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Robotics
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For a paper I would like to talk about the uses and the pros and cons of robotics in the world. Any info would be helpful. Thanks in advance, Scott (23 years ago, 19-Dec-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Working motorized focus for Vision Command
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(...) If you download the SDK you will also get some demo programs. They will run with VC++ and show how to get a video stream to a window and how to use the motion detection feature of the camera driver. The demos don't help much for Kylix/Linux (...) (23 years ago, 19-Dec-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Looking for Robotic Discovery Set (#9735)
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Hello, I am looking for 2 sets of brand new Lego Robotic Dicovery Set (#9735) Please make me an offer if you have ONE or TWO sets. Email: huip@hkstar.com Thanks. Patrick (23 years ago, 19-Dec-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Contact-Me 2003
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Great shot Eric, just one thing, AOL??? I mean, AOL???? The mechs are awesome, but A.O.L? You're not selling out I hope. Of course, I suppose a mech that automatically installed AOL on any computer it got near would be the most fearsome mech in the (...) (23 years ago, 19-Dec-02, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.people, lugnet.org.us.gardenslug, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Working motorized focus for Vision Command
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Sorry for the late reply ... consumer still cameras (even cheap ones) have auto-focus capability, so the technology has to be within reach of the RCX. I did a search on Google and found the following definitions: Active auto-focus is where the (...) (23 years ago, 19-Dec-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Contact-Me 2003
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I got your Giant Robots right here! (URL) me 2003 mylegomaster@AOL.com www.mylegomaster.com Legomaster (23 years ago, 19-Dec-02, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.people, lugnet.org.us.gardenslug, lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Working motorized focus for Vision Command
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(...) That would sure help make the image processing faster, but techniques do exist for image registration (e.g. (URL) This is often required for MRI or electron microsope images since the movement of the apparatus affects the image scale, skew and (...) (23 years ago, 19-Dec-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Working motorized focus for Vision Command
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(...) from one end to another taking pictures as you go, and selecting the best parts of each, you'd end up with better-than-perfect focussing. I guess you'd want to be careful to mount the camera very rigidly so it doesn't wobble as you drive the (...) (23 years ago, 19-Dec-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Something unusual(?)
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Dear all, Here is some light entertainment: (URL) aware that the video file linked by the image is a 6 mb Divx 4 AVI) I'll post some notes on how I made it soon - for now enjoy the movie! (23 years ago, 18-Dec-02, to lugnet.animation, lugnet.space, lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.build, lugnet.starwars, lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: Working motorized focus for Vision Command
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But how to I "weave" the SDK and the algorithms IN VC++? I am only wondering if this idea of an autofocusing lego cam is feasible. One day I may learn enough VC++ to be able to acomplish this project :-) I'm glad to know there is hope! Timothy (...) (23 years ago, 18-Dec-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Working motorized focus for Vision Command
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(...) Timothy, One source of inspiration for the focusing algorithm is to look at codes that expand the depth of focus by stitching together the in-focus portions of multiple images. This is used in microscopy quite a bit. The software has to be (...) (23 years ago, 18-Dec-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Working motorized focus for Vision Command
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(...) No problem. The VC camera is a repacked Logitech. You can get a free quickcam SDK from the Logitech homepage. With that, you can program the camera under Windows. If you want to use Linux, things get a bit more complicated. You could use (...) (23 years ago, 18-Dec-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Working motorized focus for Vision Command
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I have no idea how to access the camera from a programming language, nor do I have any experience in raw vision proccessing. Do you know how to do any of these previously meantioned? Timothy (...) (23 years ago, 18-Dec-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Working motorized focus for Vision Command
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(...) Yes - that'll also make the algorithm run faster. (...) I'm sure it's possible. What I'm not sure about is whether the kind of naive algorithm that I could come up with after just a few minutes thought would be effective. It might take some (...) (23 years ago, 18-Dec-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Tempted in buying my first Mindstorms invention kit - 1.5 vs 2.0 ?
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I have not performed any tests, but if you go in configuration panel, you will see that the USB tower can't be put in long range mode if it is placed behind a passive (non powered) USB hub. That may also be the case for low power laptop usb ports. (...) (23 years ago, 18-Dec-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Lego® 9V Technic Motors compared characteristics
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Hi Gaurav, (...) ;o) (...) I don't own these motors... but I have a friend who has this set, if I can get him to extract the motors from the car I'll post an update... Philo www.philohome.com (23 years ago, 18-Dec-02, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.technic)
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| | Re: Working motorized focus for Vision Command
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Thanks for replying! I was thinking of the same procedure. But to help with the varried depth problem, a small part of the viewed area could be selected to be the focusing point. So overall, it must be possible, right? Timothy (...) (23 years ago, 18-Dec-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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