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Re: Roving Webcam Robot
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lugnet.robotics
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Tue, 3 Oct 2000 21:09:47 GMT
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In lugnet.robotics, Amnon Silverstein writes:
> Here is me with my roving webcam bot. This weekend I made an improved version.
> I used WebCam32 for the webcam, my WebBrick program for robot control over IP,
> NQC code for motor control, IBM's cordless modem, a USB to serial converter to
> get the tower to work with the Sony VAIO picturebook.
> http://www.best.com/~amnon/Homepage/Games/AmnonRobot.jpg
> http://www.best.com/~amnon/Homepage/Games/RobotDetail.jpg
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> The NQC first centers the steering. I use a clutch gear and a rotation counter
> in the steering system. The code can detect a stall when the steering motor is
> running but the steering angle isn't changing. It also has a touch sensor that
> it uses to calibrate the rotation sensor so 0 is straight ahead. The little
> antenna on the nose with the yellow wheel is to provide visual feedback
> through the webcam of which way the front end is pointing.
> The NQC also controls differential power to the two rear wheel drive motors,
> to help it turn in addition to the steering.
> My latest version of WebBrick lets you start any task on any program, so you
> can have up to 50 buttons on the control web page. I wrote it in C++, and the
> web control is in HTML and JavaScript. You can get WebBrick at:
> http://www.best.com/~amnon/Homepage/Lego/
Cool! Do you have the webcam up and running somewhre?
KL
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| Everything is battery powered, so it can run around loose. Unfortunatly, this means it can only stay alive for about an hour, and I can't just leave it online. The laptop is the main bottleneck. I have to turn off all power management or else the (...) (24 years ago, 4-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
| | | Re: Roving Webcam Robot
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| Amnon Silverstein (07:05 PM 10.03.2000) wrote: >I have been told that Webcam32 can automatically fix the IP address on >the web page, but I have not looked into this. It works pretty well. What you do is put a copy of your web page locally on the (...) (24 years ago, 4-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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| Here is me with my roving webcam bot. This weekend I made an improved version. I used WebCam32 for the webcam, my WebBrick program for robot control over IP, NQC code for motor control, IBM's cordless modem, a USB to serial converter to get the (...) (24 years ago, 2-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics) !
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