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RE: 'Bot Camera
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lugnet.robotics
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Tue, 22 Feb 2000 10:23:22 GMT
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Marco C. <MARCO@nospamSOPORCEL.PT>
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I don't understand what you are saying.
The *RCX* ask the PC to capture th image in front of it ?
...that's like, wondering around with my eyes closed, and only opening them
when something interesting is in front of me... but... if my eyes are
closed, how can I decide when to open them ?
If I have "vision", shouldn't I use the best of it ?
At 17:37 21-02-2000 -0700, Morgan, David wrote:
> You could do this with a video camera as well... Just have the RCX signal
> the computer to capture the next X frames that come through to disk.
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> This way your bot could roam around the house and only capture things it
> thinks are interesting...
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> <David Paule Wrote>
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> Don't forget that you can use a film or digital still camera that the robot
> itself fires.
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> Your robot gets to decide what to take a picture of!
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> And you don't have to watch your tv or computer until you are ready.
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Marco C. aka McViper
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Message has 2 Replies:
 | | Re: 'Bot Camera
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| Your RCX decides what to take a picture of and tells the PC "get ready to receive a pic." You can go do something more productive like shoveling snow or mowing the lawn ;-). More to the point, the idea is to make a program that lets the RCX make (...) (25 years ago, 22-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics)
| | | Re: 'Bot Camera
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| (...) snow or (...) Well, as much as I would like, sitting in from of a PC (or TV) watching what the bot's doing in real-time, is far from my ideia of usefull waste of time ;) (...) That's one of the more basic (useless/fun) first projects when one (...) (25 years ago, 22-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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