It says the video is not available. Did you just recently upload it?
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Me worry somebody? Naw, not me! 
Ha ha! A robot stalker would stalk robots, not people. 
It would have to be a people stalker to stalk people. I just want it to be able to track me or whomever I “tell” it to or it finds interesting.
It was the first application of computer vision I could come up with. I need a goal before I will be able to learn something new - a way to apply whatever I am learning. Hmmm, maybe a robot could track people wearing a certain color or colors.
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I want one that can crush drinks cans and put them in the recycle bin coz my kids cant…
Or one that can load and unload the dishwasher, or the washing machine…
I know what you mean about goals though, its how I have to work.
I am going to see what I have to do to get Quark to communicate with RoboRealm on Interpid. I don’t have a wireless color camera, so I can’t transmit video, but I can get communication between the two working.
Now, it would be really cool if I could eventually send video over the socket. I wonder if RoboRealm can receive video over a socket. Hmmmm…
I’ll be able to start working on WALTER again sometime Friday. If I had some servos I could start building the new arm for his top deck, but servos will have to wait until next month if I can afford them.
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There are streaming protocols for that, similar to what is used on the net
Fantastic job! Very smooth tracking. What control module did you use? The SSC module?
Here is an old video I did a long time ago. It is not hooked to a servo, I was just playing with the tracking. I had also added sound. My daughter is the star.
Yes its the SSC-32… The app is VB6 though their API on a 200ms loop.
Its rough and the field of vision of the web cam is quite narrow so it can very quickly loose the ball. Need to get something with a slightly wider field of vision.
I had to do that with the robot in a sitting position and just move the head.
If its standing then I have to tilt the hips to quite a severe angle for it to even see the table.
Its about 44 degrees the FOV. I think something nearer 90 would be better but it may be introducing too much data.
Also its a USB webcam and the cable is quite stiff so it tends to pull the robot about. Goto go wireless. Need to find the wifes credit card, now where did she use that last… 
This is way off topic but I could not help my self. While I was looking for RoboRealm videos, I came across an old recording I made when I was testing the SpeakJet Board I made Called the RSCU board. This audio sound byte is the RSCU board cycleing through all words programed in the stamp processor. Click the link to listen!
Cant get it to play, My security settings kill it dead even when I allow the activex control
Your daughter is cute.
I now have socket communication between quark and intrepid using two python scripts - client.py on quark and server.py on intrepid. I found a nice Python socket tutorial on the net.
Would you like participate in an experiment with me? You’ll need to download and install Python. I will send you a client script written in Python. It’s very simple - all the client does is send text messages and the server receives them and prints them out. The first program will just be a one say send from you to me. I will run the server because I have static IP addresses for my PCs and both are connected directly on the internet.
Once we verify this works over the internet, we can then move on to more interesting things. My next step will be able to turn the client and server programs into a bidirectional socket based chat setup.
Then it will get MUCH more interesting, with one of us trying to control RoboRealm on the other’s PC.
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I know nothing about python 
You don’t have to know anything about Python, but it is very easy to learn. I’ll take care of writing all the software we use, up to when we start playing with RoboRealm at least. Actually, you could create a socket based message sender in whatever language you want to use.
I am defining a very simple protocol for socket based client/server chatting right now. I will expand and modify that as needed for communicating with RoboRealm directly. It’s important to be sure bidirectional communication over the internet using a socket works before going any further.
I started a thread for RoboRealm Experimentation.
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i have my iogear serial BT adapter on the way what do i need to download and in what order to get VB on my comp ???,i dont want to get the installation screwed up,
PS how do we post the codes for RR in here [/code]
Do you also have Bluetooth for a robot? If not, you will need to get a Bluetooth module, like those sold by Sparkfun and interface it to your robot.
You can start here and download Visual Basic Express and install it.
You can post a link to a file on a website or you can use the code and /code section to post the contents of a file you have created for RoboRealm.
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the IOGEAR goes on the robot and i have a usb bluetoooth dongle for the comp all for 90 bucks and there both supposed to be 100 mtrs,
I had it working with ssc32 then my motherboard blew so i,m working on getting it going on 98 se (my other comp win xp mce) is there any way to run roborelm on win 98
I saw a video from RoboRealm demonstrating a lego bot finding a blue ball, pick it up, and locate a red cone and bring the ball to it. In the video it showed a text header labeled “status” and it displayed each mode the bot was in. Very cool. It uses VB script, something I have yet to even attempt to figure out how to use. Is VB Script different from regular Visual Basic? Forgive my ignorance.
I would love to learn at least the basics of VB Script because that opens up so many possibilities of RoboRealm - sheer power! 
VBScript is similar in syntax to VB but is limited in some ways…
It is the language that is incorporated into programs like Word, Access, Excel etc and is usually used fro macros etc.
If you are interested in VB then it is best to go with the free VB express as that is more powerful
I guess if I want to learn how to effectively learn VBScript, I need to pick up a “For Dummies” book.
Thanks for the info.