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• Vision Tester

  The vision tester will connect to a Generic Webcam, and display the webcam screen together with a processed image. To make this work, we create a new DSS Service, add a Windows Form and hook the Form to the DSS Service. Create the windows form, and add Read More... Posted Sunday, August 10, 2008 5:20 PM by Erik Oppedijk | 0 Comments Filed under: Robotics, RoboChallenge

• Placing Balls

  In our simulated arena we want to position the colored balls inside the arena Solution 1: Place the balls on an invisible box private void PlaceBallOnBox(Vector3 position, Vector4 color) { Vector3 ballHeight = new Vector3(position.X, position.Y, position.Z); Read More... Posted Sunday, August 10, 2008 1:12 PM by Erik Oppedijk | 0 Comments Filed under: Robotics, RoboChallenge

• Creating the Arena

  To create the arena, we are going to create a seperate entity "ArenaEntity" to insert the object into the simulation engine. We'll start by adding a C# class file to our simulation project. Then inside the class, we create 4 walls (made Read More... Posted Sunday, August 10, 2008 12:47 PM by Erik Oppedijk | 0 Comments Filed under: Robotics, RoboChallenge

• Creating the simulated Robot

  Start by drawing your robot in a tool like SketchUp (free tool), this will result in a .SKP file Export this with SketchUp Pro (there is an 8 hour trial version available, or another converter) to a .OBJ file (together with some material files and folders) Read More... Posted Thursday, August 07, 2008 3:29 PM by Erik Oppedijk | 0 Comments Filed under: Robotics, RoboChallenge