The Claw

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Posted by Gdesign at 1/21/2001 1:40 AM EST


Student on team #125, NU-TRONS, from C.M. and Textron Systems.



check out the claw on the webcam

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Posted by Jessica Boucher at 1/21/2001 11:44 AM EST


Student on team #237, Sie-H2O-Bots, from Watertown High School and Eastern Awning Systems & The Siemon Company.


In Reply to: The Claw
Posted by Gdesign on 1/21/2001 1:40 AM EST:



Hey, just wondering, but what is that webcam set to? When Im at school (where they have a dsl line) it runs smoothly, but at home on my dialup the pic will load about 1/4 of the way and then the computer will cancel that and start loading the next one. Any ideas?

-Jessica B, #237

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Posted by Brian at 1/21/2001 7:20 PM EST


Student on team #56, Robbe Xtreme, from Bound Brook High School and Ethicon Inc..


In Reply to: Re: The Claw
Posted by Jessica Boucher on 1/21/2001 11:44 AM EST:



Yeah I was wondering the same thing, mine does the exact same as Jessica's, but when its running at school it looks great....

Brian

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Posted by Steve Prairie at 1/21/2001 7:51 PM EST


Student on team #173, RAGE, from Rockville High School and UTRC.


In Reply to: Re: The Claw
Posted by Brian on 1/21/2001 7:20 PM EST:



Their problem is that they set the camera image to refresh every few seconds (probably 15 or 30 seconds). When you load the picture at home, it ussually takes longer than that. So it starts loading the picture, and then reloads a new picture, even before the last picture was done loading. They should adjust thier refresh rate of the picture to once every minute or so.

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Posted by Gdesign at 1/22/2001 12:45 PM EST


Student on team #125, NU-TRONS, from C.M. and Textron Systems.


In Reply to: Refresh Rate
Posted by Steve Prairie on 1/21/2001 7:51 PM EST:



Thats not it! we actually set the image quality to very high therefore the images are 100k each! this problem will be eliminated!

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Posted by nitrate at 1/22/2001 9:06 PM EST


Student on team #125, NU-TRONS, from BLS.


In Reply to: Re: Refresh Rate
Posted by Gdesign on 1/22/2001 12:45 PM EST:



Should work fine now. I also added a slow/medium/fast option for different speeds. the refresh rate is 24, 16, and 8 seconds, respectively.

The image size is down to about 11k ... That might be unnecessarily small though, so we might raise it to around 40k for better quality.

enjoy!