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Re: Edu Robot Camera Test Bed

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Originally Posted by 987HighRoller
How would you go about doing this without labview? Also what software would be necessary, or would you have to make it yourself?
FIRST distributed a Java-based GUI last year. It works, but it's not good.

The entire communication protocol is documented. It's primarily text-based (with a raw mode). Hyperterminal would work, except for the line endings; the camera uses CR-only (\r) line endings. (The options being Windows' CRLF (\r\n), Unix's LF (\n), and Mac's CR (\r).)

You could literally use something like
Code:
echo SM 64 | macendings > COM1
to control the camera, assuming the program "macendings" (converts lines to Mac-style) existed.

In one of the documents somewhere, it describes all the commands and the protocol and everything. I just don't know where off-hand.