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• CCR and DSS Toolkit released

  Microsoft released a separate toolkit for using the CCR and DSS framework inside your own applications, enabling Concurrent programming inside your regular C# (or VB.NET) application. And managing a directory of services with the DSS framework. So there Read More... Posted Wednesday, October 29, 2008 3:45 PM by Erik Oppedijk | 0 Comments Filed under: General, Robotics

• 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

• Phidgets RFID Service

  To use the Phidgets RFID device with Robotics Developer Studio 2008, we first need to install the Phidgets drivers Phidget 21 MSI . (don't download the Robotics Studio drivers, there is no RFID support in there) For the complete solution, download Read More... Posted Monday, August 04, 2008 11:02 AM by Erik Oppedijk | 0 Comments Filed under: Robotics

• EntityNameSprite in Robotics Developer Studio 2008

  With the EntityNameSprite, we can display a text in the simulation window attached to our robots. The name is painted on a texture with a textureWidth and Height. We can set the font name and size. Finally we'll specify the Pose(location) of the display Read More... Posted Friday, August 01, 2008 3:56 PM by Erik Oppedijk | 0 Comments Filed under: Robotics

• Robotics Developer Studio 2008

  An overview page for my Robotics Developer Studio 2008 articles General articles: Using the CameraSprite Entity Using the EntityNameSprite HtmlFormPostMapping Phidgets RFID service Devantech (vpl) Examples ASCOM service for controlling Telescopes Security Read More... Posted Friday, August 01, 2008 3:48 PM by Erik Oppedijk | 0 Comments Filed under: Robotics

• CameraSprite in Robotics Developer Studio 2008

  Using the CameraSpriteEntity from the Visual Simulation Engine Start a simulation with a robot with a camera (for instance a Pioneer 3DX) Go to Edit mode (Mode menu, choose edit) Entity Menu -> New... Choose CameraSprite, and as a parent the "robocam" Read More... Posted Monday, July 28, 2008 4:19 PM by Erik Oppedijk | 3 Comments Filed under: Robotics

• ASP.NET and Concurrency

  Paul Roberts wrote a nice article [1] about using the CCR (Concurrency and Coordination Runtime) together with ASP.NET, to start multiple task concurrently. The CCR will handle the thread pool for us. The CCR is now still a part of Robotics Studio, but Read More... Posted Friday, June 13, 2008 1:39 PM by Erik Oppedijk | 0 Comments Filed under: Robotics, ASP.NET

• DevDays 2008 - Robotics Geek Night

  Yesterday we ( Raimond , Marcel and me) gave a presentation during the DevDays Geek Night. The room was packed with about 200 e nthusiastic geeks! We talked about Robotics in general, the new Robotics Studio 2.0 beta, the RoboChamps robotic competition Read More... Posted Friday, May 23, 2008 11:32 AM by Erik Oppedijk | 8 Comments Filed under: General, Robotics

• RoboChallenge 2008 Kickoff

  Next week, on friday the 16th of november at 15:00, we'll be hosting the kickoff for the annual RoboChallenge contest at our location in Veenendaal. The RoboChallenge is a nice contest open to everyone, the purpose is to build a robot, and program Read More... Posted Friday, November 09, 2007 10:23 AM by Erik Oppedijk | 0 Comments Filed under: General, Robotics

• Robochallenge 2007, the result

  Well, the 2007 RoboChallenge is over, and we ended up in 3rd place, between all the (expensive) robots from the Noordelijke Hogeschool Leeuwarden(NHL). Our robot Woody did a great job, we past the qualification in 1 pass, and during most of the mission's Read More... Posted Monday, June 11, 2007 10:24 AM by Erik Oppedijk | 2 Comments Filed under: General, Robotics

• Preparing for Robochallenge 2007

  Just a few days left for the next edition of the dutch Robochallenge , next friday and saturday we'll be competing again with our new robot: WOODY. This year all the software was written in C# with WCF. Also check out the nice poster: Edwin van Wijk Read More... Posted Tuesday, June 05, 2007 2:45 PM by Erik Oppedijk | 2 Comments Filed under: Robotics

• Robotics Studio 1.5 CTP

  Well, the Microsoft Robotics Studio Team is busy again with a new CTP [1] of the 1.5 version of MSRS. In this new release[2], there is support for running the CCR on Windows CE, a preview of the Sumo and Soccer Simulation environments and a faster loading Read More... Posted Saturday, April 07, 2007 5:18 PM by Erik Oppedijk | 0 Comments Filed under: Robotics