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Monday, September 8th, 2008
Swarm Research using Trackbot and Visual programming
Last Thursday I received two new Trackbots( latest hardware / firmware version) from Systronix with the virtual intelligence adapter (Bluetooth comms). I think these new Trackbots will be able to communicate with each other using their built-in LED beaconing systems.
On Friday we verified that we could indeed get both of the Trackbots to communicate at the same time to one Computer. We verified [...]
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Thursday, August 21st, 2008
New Media Manitoba talk on robotics and gaming
We gave a talk on Tuesday about robotics and video gaming. A lot of people are interested in exactly what we are doing and how it applies to robotics and video games. The robotics part is easy, robotSuite need I say more. As for video games, we have tailored robotFoundry to be able to program the AI [...]
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Tuesday, August 19th, 2008
AI Development using Visual coding / Graphical programing
So part of what I have been doing is tailoring our graphical coding engine to allow it to generate AI for video games. This is very similar to the Unreal Engine’s Kismet system.
Here are a couple of screen shots and a link to our youtube video for AIA.
YouTube Video
AI Apocalypse
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Sunday, August 3rd, 2008
Direct serial control progress
I can now execute motion commands in a basic program using the direct serial link. Getting data out of the basic program is also easy, but without a properly documented serial protocol it is hard say what is going on. Bottom line writing to the first defined variable works good, but reading other [...]
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Friday, August 1st, 2008
More on direct control and motions via built in serial port
So after posting on the robosavvy forums, one of the members robots42 informed me that you can indeed execute the stock motions that are available in the standard BASIC program. I totally did not read the very first line of the MR3024 serial data sheet, YOU CAN WRITE TO THE FIRST VARIABLE in the [...]
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Tuesday, July 29th, 2008
Robonova robotFoundry integration
On Sunday I started to figure out the Robonova. Very interesting robot. I like the Idea of preprogrammed motions, so I would like to keep that functionality.
So far I am looking at two ways of communicating with the RN-1 and robotFoundry
1.) Get servo values and set servo positions all from the built in serial port.
2.) [...]
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Tuesday, July 29th, 2008
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