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Robocoach fashion accessories
Here is what our team robocoach will be wearing at the Hartford Regional. The NVG headmount allows our high-powered IR transmitter to be naturally aimed at the robot's IR antenna, with only a low likelihood of getting off-target and frying opponents IR receivers. All while leaving the hands free for the XBOX360 controller used to signal the robot in the first 15 seconds, and play NASCAR for the remaining 2 minutes.
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Re: Robocoach fashion accessories
Um, isn't the Xbox 360 Controller on RadioWave Frequencies? Thats way off the charts on whats allowed and whats not, is it not?
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Re: Robocoach fashion accessories
The shirt cooler than the headgear... I can see alot of people bumping into things this season.
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Re: Robocoach fashion accessories
I should have mentioned we use the wired version of the xbox controller. It is plugged into a USB port of a tiny laptop hung around the neck of the robocoach, which reads the button inputs and sends them to the IR transmitter.
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Re: Robocoach fashion accessories
Wait a second... are you encoding data from the XBOX controller over the infrared and transmitting it to the robot? (aka IRDA)
We wanted to do this too... but the game manual says that you can't encode data into the infrared in any fashion. You must have four distinct functions each assigned a unique IR code. <G49> Code:
ROBOCOACH Signaling – If the ROBOCOACH will be providing signals to the ROBOT, then prior to the start of each MATCH the ROBOCOACH must place a Signaling Card in the ROBOCOACH STATION. The Signaling Card shall be a 3-inch by 5-inch card listing the one to four actions that can be commanded by the ROBOCOACH. Code:
SIGNALING DEVICES shall be designed to communicate signals from the ROBOCOACH to the ROBOT. SIGNALING DEVICES are excluded from Rule <R64>. SIGNALING DEVICES shall: >not use changes in the signal states to encode or transmit larger messages (e.g. Morse code) |
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Re: Robocoach fashion accessories
Yes, we are sending four ASCII codes, one for each button press (or Left/Right toggle):
'A' - turn left 10-degrees 'B' - turn right 10-degrees 'C' - speed up 2-fps 'D' - slow down 2-fps That should meet the spirit and letter of the rules. We are using a different carrier frequency than IRDA to minimize interference. Last edited by flightofone : 20-01-2008 at 13:19. |
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Re: Robocoach fashion accessories
In that case... Cool! When you said XBOX controller I thought you were sending a few bytes of data (such as X and Y axis position on the joysticks) over some kind of serial interface.
Guess it's an odd conclusion to jump to... but its just me being unhappy to find out you couldnt do anything too crazy with the infrared. When we first herd about the IR our team wanted to make an IR joystick... then we read the rules. Sorry! -q |
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