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| Hello, For anyone interested... I have two spare Vision Command Constructopedias and CD's (English). If anyone is willing to part with the software/documentation from the Steven Spielberg Movie Studio set, please email me. Also, I'd like to expand (...) (23 years ago, 16-Dec-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: A Generic Idea
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| (...) Sigh. I wish you would read the rest of my message and discover that I address that issue(!), instead of chopping the messages up into neat pieces which you can "deal with". (...) See? (...) Who talked about live video? I was talking about (...) (23 years ago, 6-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: A Pet Idea ~/\~~/\¤
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| Hummmm, Henrik that was a nice idea for my two cats :) I've allready made a modified rover that can be found here: (URL) can also download my modified RIS program there. But the cats always attack the wires on it. Your idea with an tail sensor and a (...) (23 years ago, 4-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) The problem is that the 27MHz frequencies are fairly tightly restricted in some countries. Here in the US, it's pretty much open-season, it's used by CB radios, radio controlled models - and various toys. However, in other countries (the UK (...) (23 years ago, 5-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) It's even more than that really. Sending live video over IR really isn't feasible - there isn't anywhere near enough bandwidth to do that. What you *REALLY* want is to have enough on-board CPU power in the robot to process the images locally - (...) (23 years ago, 4-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Lego competitions just like Robotica?
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| hello ! I live in dunkerque (FRANCE) and we want to organize a robotic competition. Like 36 hours in challenge. Nobody know the challenge before the competition. But we don't know if that can be possible cause we don't know if we have time and (...) (24 years ago, 10-Jan-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: CamCom ActiveX.exe
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| hi Manfred, this looks great, finally a "real" freeware version (I never succeeded in getting the other (Belgium) freeware). Just started the program and try to run it with a very old Dynalink camera under winXP, it worked right away. I don't have a (...) (23 years ago, 31-Dec-02, to lugnet.robotics.vc)
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| | CamCom ActiveX.exe
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| CamCom is an ActiveX.exe and makes in a VB-project classes available, which make the detection of color and movement possible. For this purpose detection areas must be defined. This can take place at run-time by program control or over the (...) (23 years ago, 31-Dec-02, to lugnet.robotics.vc)
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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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| | 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: Working motorized focus for Vision Command
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| (...) Well, I'm not an expert - but I imagine it should be possible to produce a measure of how sharp the image is. For example by adding up all the differences between one pixel and it's neighbours. In a sharp image, you'd expect a lot of nice high (...) (23 years ago, 18-Dec-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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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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| | 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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| | 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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| (...) 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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