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Re: Control a vex with a laptop?

I mounted my laptop to the Vex, and it works great! Here's a picture:



I used that Perl script to control it and I used an app called Linphone to look through the webcam. As a test I drove the robot down the hall to see if the bathroom was occupied. Seeing that it wasn't with the webcam, I proceded to get off my chair and utilize it.

The one thing I don't really like about it is the way I strapped the laptop on. It didn't fall off, but it's still a bit shaky. I should probably also find a better approach to controlling the robot too, probably with a leaner protocol and a service running on the laptop like seanwitte suggested.

I might even make a video... although I'm not very good at making stuff like that. I'd like to see that webcam attached to the arm... I wish I could have done something like that. The idea reminds me of a robot I saw that one of our team sponsors had built. It had a camera on this neat arm that would telescope out like ten or fifteen feet in the air. It was cool.