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Botd software. The Artist Formerly Known as K 05-12-2006
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Posted by The Artist Formerly Known as K on May 12, 2006, 9:45 am
OK -- last UI change for a while. I've re-added the text-to-speech
feature and a "Who's On" drop-down. That's about all I have time to do
on the UI itself for now. Other changes from here on in will be to the
back end.

Feel free to drop by and let me know if it works -- I'm in particular
looking for issues that might cause certain browsers to break. You'll
need a reasonably modern browser with javascript turned on. Cookies
optional.

http://robot.swampgas.com:8081

Should work through all proxies/firewalls, etc.

Thanx in advance -- tAfkaks


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Posted by pogo on May 12, 2006, 7:28 pm
"The Artist Formerly Known as Kap'n Salty"
> OK -- last UI change for a while. I've re-added the
text-to-speech
> feature and a "Who's On" drop-down. That's about all I have time
to do
> on the UI itself for now. Other changes from here on in will be
to the
> back end.
> Feel free to drop by and let me know if it works -- I'm in
particular
> looking for issues that might cause certain browsers to break.
You'll
> need a reasonably modern browser with javascript turned on.
Cookies
> optional.
> http://robot.swampgas.com:8081
> Should work through all proxies/firewalls, etc.
> Thanx in advance -- tAfkaks

I took a look at this today and even drove the bot around.
SLICK!!!



Posted by RoboRealm on May 13, 2006, 2:26 pm
Works great! We took it for a little spin.

Any change on allowing us to control the robot automatically? We'd like
to give it the ability to see by interfacing it directly with RoboRealm
http://www.roborealm.com/ over the web! We'd run RoboRealm remotely and
have it send control commands to your robot ... cool concept of a mind
body separation over a couple hundred miles. We're curious to see how
the timing lag affects the control.

The interface works fine in FireFox. Perhaps adding a backup button and
the ability to tilt the camera up and down would be great ... we were
trying to look at the robot's sibling in the room!

Great stuff!

STeven.


Posted by The Artist Formerly Known as K on May 13, 2006, 4:28 pm
RoboRealm wrote:
> Works great! We took it for a little spin.
>
> Any change on allowing us to control the robot automatically? We'd like
> to give it the ability to see by interfacing it directly with RoboRealm
> http://www.roborealm.com/ over the web! We'd run RoboRealm remotely and
> have it send control commands to your robot ... cool concept of a mind
> body separation over a couple hundred miles. We're curious to see how
> the timing lag affects the control.
>
> The interface works fine in FireFox. Perhaps adding a backup button and
> the ability to tilt the camera up and down would be great ... we were
> trying to look at the robot's sibling in the room!
>
> Great stuff!
>
> STeven.
>

Actually, there's really nothing stopping you from running it remotely
at all. There's no actual requirement that you run it from the provided
web page. Whatever you DO use to run it needs to be able to send http
POST requests (which is trivial). You can pull botd.js via wget, or
contact me for details. The protocol, however, is evolving -- but is
essentially xml over http. A second channel can use XML over straight
tcp with no HTTP, although this is not implemented yet.

Backup is implemented on the robot, but you need to be connected a
privileged service to use it -- there are insufficient sensors in the
rear to make public access to that function sufficiently safe.

The second robot will eventually get a tilt unit for the camera, but
I'll need to find the time to add it in.

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