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| (...) robotics thing myself yet. Actually, I'm writing this response to try to connect a couple of other things to you and your work, and hope you might have some input for the community. First, you say that your script controller supports the (...) (24 years ago, 29-Jan-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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| | Re: Lego Studios Cam and Macintosh
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| The Studios software can actually work with other cams (at least it works with my Creative cam). The trick is to alter the Registry entry to the name of your other cam (noted from System Control Panel). Likewise, I would guess that the Pinnacle (...) (24 years ago, 19-Jan-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Lego Studios Cam and Macintosh
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| Posted on behalf of Jørgen Rygh: --- FYI - LEGO is considering to make the Studio CD available separately as they have received a lot of requests from Vision Command owners. And, the Pinnacle Studio Action kit (URL) NOT work with the LEGO camera (...) (24 years ago, 19-Jan-02, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.vc)
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| | Re: Lego Studios Cam and Macintosh
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| (...) The camera is a Logitech QuickCam Web, the round variety. I don't think there's any difference in the electronics between the square or the round ones though. Unfortunately Logitech doesn't make any drivers for it for the Mac. I was just over (...) (24 years ago, 17-Jan-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: RCX & RIS, a fading glory? - replacement for RCX
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| (...) Please, no. HandyBoard is fine, but it is 20+ year old technology. If you can all hang in there another two months the answer will be JCX: (URL) KBytes SRAM (this can be used just for heap - working data space) 512 KBytes to 2048 KBytes Flash (...) (23 years ago, 7-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Anyone there?
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| (...) We mean radio, and we want to have a system that is invisible to the lego software (ideally), so that everything that the IR can do, we can do with much extended range. In addition, we want to have wireless digital video and maybe audio as (...) (24 years ago, 14-Jan-02, to lugnet.robotics.tele)
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| | Re: RCX & RIS, a fading glory?
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| (...) While did take some EE courses in college I don't claim to have enough background in that area to comment on which bus could be used. I made that statement mainly based on my suspicion that something like DCC could be made to work. 2 Wires (...) (23 years ago, 3-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: RCX & RIS, a fading glory?
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| (...) I strongly disagree. You can (with a lot of stupid messing around) push the RCX beyond anything reasonable. The awesome Lego Typewriter is a classic example. These are incredibly ingenious devices - and if you want to treat robot design like (...) (23 years ago, 30-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: RCX Communication problem... suggestions?
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| (...) You might try watching the IR tower through a CCD device - like a digital camera or an analog or digital video camera. Their CCD chipsets detect IR light, and you'll see it as two additional pulsing LEDs inside the tower - probably green in (...) (24 years ago, 2-Jan-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: A Generic Idea
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| (...) Well, to find outline of objects you'd need a low-res (easy to simplify and automatically filters out irrelevant details), color (to avoid two objects of the same material getting their outlines fused together by the image processing (...) (23 years ago, 5-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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| Has anyone any practical experience of what robotic image processing _can_ be done on a single-chip computer such as an RCX, PIC, etc.? Any links to research papers? Peter (23 years ago, 6-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) Ah - OK. But other things in the world (like people) are moving around - it's not always going to be possible to stop, capture a static image - and then reliably navigate based on it. I guess there are niches where such a robot could be (...) (23 years ago, 6-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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| You might be interested in the CMUcam. See (URL) CMUcam is a new low-cost, low-power sensor for mobile robots. You can use CMUcam to do many different kinds of on-board, real-time vision processing. Because CMUcam uses a serial port, it can be (...) (23 years ago, 8-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) I summarized neatly too, while he got into the intricacies of DTMF and Phreaking in the 70s... :D (...) It wasn't a generic solution, it was a generic idea. The generic cel phone would provide a generic link to any generic PC in the world. You (...) (23 years ago, 6-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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| Yes, I think the point isn't whether or not the robot has enough oomph to recognize faces or things like that :D The point is that you can do a *lotta* fun stuff with a camera or mike in a robot, if ONLY you could give the RCX a link to something (...) (23 years ago, 7-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) I extrapolated your complaints that PDAs have OS's where the c compilers don't have libraries to do the simplest things... : ("You need more than that though. Along with your C compiler, you need a set of libraries that give you access to the (...) (23 years ago, 7-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: A Generic Idea
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| (...) My aging Agenda PDA does integer work at about the speed of a 100MHz Pentium. Floating point performance is terrifyingly slow though. Since the Agenda is a couple of years old now, I'd expect PDA's to be two or three times faster by now - so (...) (23 years ago, 6-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | RE: A Generic Idea
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| Steve Baker summarized neatly: The big design issue is whether to have the brain near or far. If far, you need more communications bandwidth, but you can have a mongo brain. If near, you can minimize your investment in communications overhead, but (...) (23 years ago, 6-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) Hmm I chose cel phones because they are pretty standard products (unlike Radio links etc), simple to use (few presses) and so on, but of course, any link to a unit with memory/cpu could be an expansion... (...) ...Like an IR link to another (...) (23 years ago, 5-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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