BASIC intepreter for Robobuilder
by l3v3rz
Mon Sep 03, 2012 11:06 pm
Hi - thanks
Yes the boards been pretty good. Bit worried it gets warm so I may drill some ventilation into the box to get airflow
The boot time is pretty good (5-10s) and openwrt has everything you need. I'm keeping my matrix size down (32x32 or smaller) and frame rates low 1-5 fps so the performance is fine.
Great for experimenting with and a real big improvement to basic robobuilder - The 3D printed case and power lead and serial converter turn it into a really nice package and with a servo mounted webcam it really becomes a cheap (hobbyist) "Darwin" or "Nao".
The only downside is really the memory/disk, after building OS you have about 4-5M free which means installing perl/python or java would be difficult. I have GnuOctave (open source Matlab) built but at 5M it doesn't quite fit. I could use the USB slot for memory stick but then no camera or would need a hub.
The tool chain is easy to use as well so building C programs is a snip. This is why I've been playing with my RoboBasic - at 40K download its much smaller than the big boys but gives me complete control over the robot and now some basic image processing. I've also created an alternative to the IDE using awk that runs on the omnima so I can generated the binaries from txt files edited with vi.
Next up I should have the ball tracking video done using a simple colour filter. I'm still playing with Guesture recognition - but that is basically working (on test images) and then I have some convolve kernels to play with edge detection ...
Yes the boards been pretty good. Bit worried it gets warm so I may drill some ventilation into the box to get airflow
The boot time is pretty good (5-10s) and openwrt has everything you need. I'm keeping my matrix size down (32x32 or smaller) and frame rates low 1-5 fps so the performance is fine.
Great for experimenting with and a real big improvement to basic robobuilder - The 3D printed case and power lead and serial converter turn it into a really nice package and with a servo mounted webcam it really becomes a cheap (hobbyist) "Darwin" or "Nao".
The only downside is really the memory/disk, after building OS you have about 4-5M free which means installing perl/python or java would be difficult. I have GnuOctave (open source Matlab) built but at 5M it doesn't quite fit. I could use the USB slot for memory stick but then no camera or would need a hub.
The tool chain is easy to use as well so building C programs is a snip. This is why I've been playing with my RoboBasic - at 40K download its much smaller than the big boys but gives me complete control over the robot and now some basic image processing. I've also created an alternative to the IDE using awk that runs on the omnima so I can generated the binaries from txt files edited with vi.
Next up I should have the ball tracking video done using a simple colour filter. I'm still playing with Guesture recognition - but that is basically working (on test images) and then I have some convolve kernels to play with edge detection ...
by l3v3rz
Thu Sep 06, 2012 3:41 pm
A demo video of my ball tracking software in basic
Source code for Basic program is in examples folder
http://code.google.com/p/robobuilderlib ... mage3.rbas
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Source code for Basic program is in examples folder
http://code.google.com/p/robobuilderlib ... mage3.rbas
by l3v3rz
Thu Jan 03, 2013 9:12 pm
New update to BASIC up loaded. Key new feature is Matrix commands !
Goto site to download
http://code.google.com/p/robobuilderlib/
And see wiki for details
http://code.google.com/p/robobuilderlib/wiki/Basic
Looking to use Auto associative network to do image recognition (when running on Omnima/Linux)
Goto site to download
http://code.google.com/p/robobuilderlib/
And see wiki for details
http://code.google.com/p/robobuilderlib/wiki/Basic
Looking to use Auto associative network to do image recognition (when running on Omnima/Linux)
by l3v3rz
Fri Feb 01, 2013 6:15 pm
New update to all versions available to those interested. Lots of new features and fixes. http://code.google.com/p/robobuilderlib/wiki/Basic
Lots of updates to wiki and new demos - see hexapawn - by game playing program. http://code.google.com/p/robobuilderlib/wiki/Hexapawn
Lots of updates to wiki and new demos - see hexapawn - by game playing program. http://code.google.com/p/robobuilderlib/wiki/Hexapawn