pic: Early Christmas!

[darkember]

When installing the 2nd CD that came with the new controls(the one with windriver), we keep getting an error saying that we couldn't connect to the internet or it couldnt connect to windriver server. We do have internet access and anti-virus program was disabled. Any suggestions on what to do?

[Mark McLeod]

I had that and it seemed to be due to firewall settings.
I tried it again at home and my home network didn't have the same problem.

[willson.thomas]

Originally Posted by Mark McLeod

I had that and it seemed to be due to firewall settings.
I tried it again at home and my home network didn't have the same problem.

I forget where I read this, but I remember reading that the WindRiver activation process wasn't "school computer network friendly". If you are using a (school) laptop, then I would recommend seeing if you can take it home and try activating it there where the firewall is likely to be less restrictive.

[darkember]

Yeah, i'm using the school laptop so ill try it at home.

[samir13k]

You can find pics of 1501's installed controller at

http://huntingtonrobotics.org/photos/

simply click on the "2009 - cRIO Controller Testing" link on the left hand side... the wiring is a little messy, but hey...its prototyping at its finist (or somewhere close )

[darkember]

nice job guys. Have you guys started experimenting with sensors?

[samir13k]

we are playing with the gyro right now...the only problem is the bot is overcorrecting, but that error should be able to be accounted for in code.

the 10th pic (starting on first row counting from left to right, its located in the second row) is of the gyro which is mounted in silly putty.

Currently we are also working on autonomous, but the gyro will need to be fixed first...it turns too far and loses sight of the object its tracking

[darkember]

Pretty cool. Have you made progress with the camera? We are just starting to work on it so it would be nice for some tips.
P.S. I was wondering if you can use multiple cameras.

[samir13k]

running multiple cameras has not even gone through our minds...yet . Anyways though, the camera was pretty easy to use. The only problem we had was that we could not figure out how to get the color wheel set up. (For some reason that i dont know, i think our team did not use the provided dashboard ). I think the dashboard should have the color wheel set up though. If not, we had ended up just using the color wheel off a seperate program and copying over the color codes.
I don't think you guys will run into this problem though. Anyways though, it iwas a breeze to use after that whole incident was cleared up. We were in the shop today, and we did figure out why the bot was overturning when it was tracking colors. The camera was set to only 10 frames per second (which may be default, not positive though). Once we turned that up, and lowered the speed of the bot, it was working much better.

Hope that provides some troubleshooting help. (But hopefully you wont be needing any!)