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Robonova-1 with POB-EYE cam

2007-10-08T07:50:46+01:00

Hi hi,

I have bought the POB-Bot Lite robot together with the POB-TinyProto in order to implement vision onto my robonova. However I have problem in interfacing between the nova and POB-Bot. Anyone can guide me for the hardware interfacing and how to start adding source code to the robonova program

Statistics: Posted by ROBONOVICE — Mon Oct 08, 2007 7:50 am

Robonova-1 with POB-EYE cam

2006-10-11T00:49:32+01:00

How much would it be to buy this as a final product.... A rough estimate is fine.

Statistics: Posted by vinny15 — Wed Oct 11, 2006 12:49 am

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2006-08-24T14:41:11+01:00

Hi every body !

Now our website is in english, and we created a developer's zone with many code source and many others things.

http://www.pob-technology.com/ -> our web site

http://www.pob-technology.com/pobdev/index.html -->our dev zone !

Statistics: Posted by POB-Forum — Thu Aug 24, 2006 2:41 pm

Robonova-1 with POB-EYE cam

2006-07-19T14:49:00+01:00

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Statistics: Posted by CaptKill4Fun — Wed Jul 19, 2006 2:49 pm

Robonova-1 with POB-EYE cam

2006-07-19T11:04:58+01:00

Hi,

I want one ... but not sure I can spend that much money (about US$500) for one of my RoboNova-1's ...

US$500 is a too much. At this time, we don't know the final price, but trust me, it will be a correct price.

Do you have some pictures about your work ?

About our web site, we hope next week the english version will be online. But If you need documentations, or source code, pictures, I'll be happy to give it to you.

Statistics: Posted by POB-Forum — Wed Jul 19, 2006 11:04 am

@ $500 it's a little pricey, but very brainy 4 the RN-1

2006-08-06T07:18:00+01:00

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Statistics: Posted by CaptKill4Fun — Wed Jul 19, 2006 3:47 am

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2006-06-22T08:58:33+01:00

robodude666 wrote:
So, you don't need the Protoboard in order for the LCD or EYE to work?

No you don't need it. All the intelligence is in the cam.

You can just have the EYE and LCD?

The LCD is useful, because you can see what the cam sees and make some debug outputs.

I read that it has I2C. Could I be able to connect the LCD and EYE to an OOPIC board? and have the OOPIC get data from the EYE, control servos based on the data and also output onto the LCD? If it can do that, then snap! I want one of these!!

The cam has 3 interfaces: parallel, RS232 and I2C. But I2C is only the master mode possible. The same with the OOPIC (as far as I know), that means you can't connect both modules via I2C.
But RS232 should also be possible, and if you add 2 little ICs (74HC138+74HC245) for address decoding you could also use the very fast parallel interface.

Joerg

Statistics: Posted by Joerg — Thu Jun 22, 2006 8:58 am

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2006-06-22T00:54:24+01:00

So, you don't need the Protoboard in order for the LCD or EYE to work? You can just have the EYE and LCD? I read that it has I2C. Could I be able to connect the LCD and EYE to an OOPIC board? and have the OOPIC get data from the EYE, control servos based on the data and also output onto the LCD? If it can do that, then snap! I want one of these!!

Statistics: Posted by robodude666 — Thu Jun 22, 2006 12:54 am

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2006-06-21T20:44:55+01:00

robodude666 wrote:
So the RN-1 uses a different board than the one POB offers?

There are 3 components in the moment, Cam, LCD and Protoboard. For the Robonova you can use the Cam and if you want the LCD.
No prototyping board is required for normal operation.

There is a small (hidden) board with a MAX232 (level-shifter) to connect the 2 serial port (POB-EYE and Robonova). The programm in the Robonova is a slave of the POB-EYE. The POB-EYE sends command like :turn on the left, move forward....

The original prototyping board has motor- and servo drivers and this is not needed for the Robonova. The joystick can replaced with the infrared remote from the Robonova. We will make the protocol more stable to add this feature for the user interface.

You can use, if you want - not necessary - a smaller Protoboard (or cutted original one) for your own extensions.
For example, on the Bremen fair sombody asked for the possibility to log data from the cam to an extended memory. Such things are possible with an extra board.

Joerg

Statistics: Posted by Joerg — Wed Jun 21, 2006 8:44 pm

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2006-06-21T20:13:59+01:00

Thank you I am not totally happy. So the RN-1 uses a different board than the one POB offers?

Statistics: Posted by robodude666 — Wed Jun 21, 2006 8:13 pm

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2006-06-21T19:43:35+01:00

robodude666 wrote:
Also, can you please please pretty please post a picture of the back? I really wanna see how it looks!

just took a pic for you:

The hooks are for mounting a smaller prototype PCB if somebody wants. The flatcable is used here for the LCD only (it's also possible to hide it a little bit better than here).

Joerg

Statistics: Posted by Joerg — Wed Jun 21, 2006 7:43 pm

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2006-06-21T18:39:48+01:00

10 out of 10 guys

Thank you !! It's a lot of work !! Examples, documentations !! It take a lot of time. And your congratulations are a good thing for the POB's Team.

Statistics: Posted by POB-Forum — Wed Jun 21, 2006 6:39 pm

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2006-06-21T18:29:24+01:00

robodude666 wrote:
Yup, already checked out every page of the website. Good thing I have my googlebar It has a translator function, woohoo!!

Pev, I am guessing by "!0 out of 10 guys" you ment "10 out of 10"?

I think I must of watched every video at least 5 times now!

OOOPS lol I'll fix that

Statistics: Posted by Pev — Wed Jun 21, 2006 6:29 pm

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2006-06-21T18:28:03+01:00

Yup, already checked out every page of the website. Good thing I have my googlebar It has a translator function, woohoo!!

Pev, I am guessing by "!0 out of 10 guys" you ment "10 out of 10"?

I think I must of watched every video at least 5 times now!

Statistics: Posted by robodude666 — Wed Jun 21, 2006 6:28 pm

Robonova-1 with POB-EYE cam

2006-06-21T18:29:41+01:00

Wowo - I have to say whether you like the head or not the capability that seems to be present is impressive. I have played with the CMU CAM and its cool but i do like the look of the POD unit.

I am still a strong believer that robotics at all levels is about autonomous action so anything that adds further features to the RN1 to meet that goal is great in my mind.

10 out of 10 guys

Pev

Statistics: Posted by Pev — Wed Jun 21, 2006 6:19 pm