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Subject: 
Re: 'Bot Camera
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.robotics
Date: 
Tue, 22 Feb 2000 17:08:07 GMT
Original-From: 
Marco C. <marco@soporcel.%spamcake%pt>
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At 16:05 22-02-2000 GMT, David Paule wrote:
> 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 ;-).

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 ;)

> More to the point, the idea is to make a program that lets the RCX make that
> decision, rather than simply roaming around the house and broadcasting images
> from your dog's point of view.

That's one of the more basic (useless/fun) first projects when one put's a
Cam in a bot, eheh. But that's that, simply the first, basic project that
one can start with. Then, one as to do more challenging things :)

> In lugnet.robotics, "Marco C." <marco@soporcel.pt> writes:
> > If I have "vision", shouldn't I use the best of it ?

As I said before, if I have:
a PC;
a bot with a Cam;
a way to transmit action commands from the PC to the bot;
(in my case RF, using CyberMaster)
a way to transmit video from the bot's cam to the PC;
(as I would like, with a wireless XCam)
then, with a robotic vision software system, the PC can make decisions
based on the video input, instead of the having a RCX do the decision
making based on less than perfect (for movement detection) sensors.

For links and past talks about this subject please goto
http://www.lugnet.com/robotics and search for threads with the subject:
"Robotic Vision"
"buy it ! (XCam in Europe?)"
"Positioning"
"Mindstorms Vision Command System"
"Exploration Mars Camera"

:)

____________________
Marco C. aka McViper



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  RE: 'Bot Camera
 
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 (...) (27 years ago, 22-Feb-00, to lugnet.robotics)

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