[video] Team 2423 robot controlled via a webpage
 

This is a video of Team 2423's (The Kwarqs) robot being controlled via WebDMA, the open source embedded webserver that I created to help us tune our robot. Of course, this isn't exactly tuning, but its a pretty neat demonstration of its capabilities. :)

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjbSHEmchIQ

WebDMA project page on Google code: http://code.google.com/p/webdma/

Re: [video] Team 2423 robot controlled via a webpage
 

I wonder what the odds are of this being legal for use during competition next year. :rolleyes:

Re: [video] Team 2423 robot controlled via a webpage
 

This is very cool!:yikes:

What was the purpose behind this though?

Re: [video] Team 2423 robot controlled via a webpage
 

WebDMA is a library that I created that allows you to modify variables on the robot using a web browser. Its primarily intended for tuning the robot actually. It can also do data acquisition.

This is just a neat demonstration of that (after all, making the robot move is just modifying variables... ).

Re: [video] Team 2423 robot controlled via a webpage
 

At the VERY LEAST, this would be the most amazing way to do console/error output work.

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It does make that stuff much easier. :)

Theres a *ton* of potential with this because the interface is all done in javascript, so whatever you can do in a normal web page you can do here. What I really want to implement is some data acquisition stuff, but that will require a tiny bit of tweaking. Theres a javascript graphing library that should do the trick for the output however... :yikes:

I've been considering the idea of supporting a printf-like log facility, but I'm not sure if thats going to happen or not.

Re: [video] Team 2423 robot controlled via a webpage
 

So it allows you to see the results of possible code changes in real time before you write the change in? That is very cool and helpful.

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Yep. It allows you to change variables on the fly without having to reprogram the robot. Think of it as an intuitive way of switching driving modes by pressing a button on your controller (like switching between autonomous and teleoperated while practicing) on serious steroids, except that this has pretty bars that you can drag across a computer screen to change the values of certain variables relating to things like speed and direction of the robot.