RoboRealm What's New

Endurance Servo

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 01:00:00 PST

The Endurance Servo module allows you to interface RoboRealm to servos using a controller made by Endurance R/C The USB based servo controller supports up to 25 servos and provides for an external servo power supply in order to run 5v, 6v, or 9v servos.

Keyboard Send

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 01:00:00 PST

The Keyboard Send module creates a way to simulate keypresses as if you were typing into a different application other than RoboRealm. This method provides a way to integrate the results processed by RoboRealm into other applications without requiring any custom integration between the two applications.

Screen Capture

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 01:00:00 PST

The screen capture module provides you with the ability to capture the video output of any application that has a display on your computer screen and process that output within RoboRealm as if it were just another webcam video stream. For example, the very popular virtual environment Second Life can be used as a simulator to test out computer vision algorithms without needing a robot or scenery to physically exist.

Perspective Correction

Mon, 25 May 2008 01:00:00 PST

The Perspective Correction module provides an image transform that corrects for the effects of perspective depth. Perspective will distort objects to appear larger the closer they are to the camera source and smaller when further away.

TRENDnet Internet Camera

Tue, 20 May 2008 01:00:00 PST

The TRENDnet Internet Camera module provides access to the TRENDnet cameras that stream video over the internet. Check out the office camera that TRENDnet has as a demo to see the camera in action.

Maker Faire

Fri, 02 May 2008 01:00:00 PST

RoboRealm is used in many ways; from robot navigation to art exhibits to quality assurance on pieces of bread! Come join us in celebrating this immense diversity at the "Do-It-Yourself" Maker Faire on May 4th & 5th in San Francisco and see what ideas you can create! We're in the main Expo hall and will be ready to answer your questions.

Flatten

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 01:00:00 PST

In the constant struggle against bad lighting the flatten module helps to even out lighting across the image. This is akin to an edge detection but one that preserves the finer elements of the image in order to create a more visually recognizable image in contrast to a pure edge detection. The flatten module is useful in reducing the effects of shadows and highlights.

OSC Send Variables

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 01:00:00 PST

Adding yet another way for RoboRealm to communicate with other applications opens up applications that understand the OSC protocol. This protocol is most often used in Music type applications to communicate bits of status information from one device or application to another.

IDVT LED-Wiz

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 01:00:00 PST

Because you always want to control more LEDs the LED-Wiz module provides an interface to the IDVT LED-Wiz controller board. This device allows your robot projects to express themselves better by putting on their own LED light show!

3D Viewer

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 01:00:00 PST

Robots often need to understand the 3D world around them. In order to help us get a better understanding of the possibilities of 3D the 3D Viewer module provides a way to experience 3D images from your computer. This is a first step into stereoscopic vision that helps you understand the limitations and setup of a stereo based camera system.

Blob Colorize

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 01:00:00 PST

Often during processing of images a segmented blob needs to regain its original color to allow for further processing based on an average or mean color that best represents the blob. The Blob Colorize does just that.

Point Cloud

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 01:00:00 PST

Many robotic sensors provide a wide range of single point samples for the area they are sensing. Such devices include LIDAR or Sonar type systems. Whilst very different in origin from color pixel values they can be processed in fundamentally the same way as camera pixels. The Point Cloud module provides a way to create a graphic image of your point samples which then allows all other RoboRealm modules to process that data as if it were a graphic image captured from a webcam.

Read Variables

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 01:00:00 PST

Adding yet another way to read information back into RoboRealm, the Read Variables module provides a way to read in configuration information or data points from text files into RoboRealm for further processing or module configuration.

DirectX Camera Properties

Mon, 12 Mar 2008 01:00:00 PST

A lot can be done to digitally correct images with bad lighting, contrast, etc. but nothing beats having the camera change its internal capture configuration to yield a better image. The Camera Properties module provides a way to change the internal DirectX supported camera properties using RoboRealm variables instead of having to manually pull up the camera capture dialog to change the capture parameters. In this way your robot can better adapt how the camera should function in a particular circumstance.

IRobot Roomba

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 01:00:00 PST

If you are interested in extending the capability of your IRobot Roomba vacuum then have a look at the RoboRealm Roomba control module for both the 400 and 500 Roomba robot series. This module allows you to control your vacuum to be more than just a vacuum. By adding an onboard camera or even using a stationary one you could provide better navigation for your Roomba by using the processing power of your PC.

USB HID Interface

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 01:00:00 PST

With the popularity of the serial module that allows creation of custom communication protocols to certain devices the USB HID module provides a similar amount of flexible control of USB devices that utilize the Human Interface Device standard of communication. This style of device driver is often used in popular desktop products such as the Dream Cheeky USB Missile Launcher (of which we already have a module). The USB HID module gives you the ability to communicate to these types of devices which RoboRealm has not yet had a chance to create a custom module for or is simply unaware of.

Kiosk Mode

Mon, 11 Feb 2008 01:00:00 PST

As more and more of you are using RoboRealm in live settings to control your robot we are happy to announce the availability of a Kiosk mode. The Kiosk mode is meant to help you reduce the RoboRealm interface to the bare minimum to prevent accidental reconfiguration of the currently running RoboRealm application. Using the Kiosk mode you can lock the RoboRealm application into a reduced interface to ensure simpler user operation.

Display Triangle, Circle and Rectangle

Mon, 11 Feb 2008 01:00:00 PST

Display Triangle, Circle and Rectangle modules were added to provide you the ability to draw those shapes based on coordinates within RoboRealm. While very basic these modules are very useful in cleaning up shapes by redrawing them based just on their appropriate coordinates.

Firewire Camera

Mon, 11 Feb 2008 01:00:00 PST

RoboRealm continues its camera integrations by welcoming The Imaging Source as a new RoboRealm partner. Their gracious loan of a DBX-21BF04-Z firewire camera has allowed the creation of a new Firewire camera module that allows the RoboRealm application to be used with firewire cameras such as those provided by The Imaging Source.

Shape Matching Tutorial

Mon, 11 Feb 2008 01:00:00 PST

Shape Matching tutorial using the DBX-21BF04-Z camera for part identification as objects move along a conveyor belt.

profmason.com

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 01:00:00 PST

In a fashion that continues to amaze us, profmason continues to create truly inspiring vision based projects. Check out the integration of RoboRealm and the VexExplorer for can grabbing in Integrating the VEXplorer with Roborealm with a video of the robot in action. More how he hooked up the robot under PC control in Programming VEXplorer for Computer control and Decoding VExplorer Remote. This isn't the only robot to fall under his oscilloscope. The RoboSapien also fell prey at 39.2 KHz signal modulated at 1200baud for Robosapien with some final usage with RoboRealm in Controlling Robosapien from Roborealm. Likewise with the RoboQuad in Voice Controlled RoboQuad. Naturally with all these robots you do need quite a bit of power to keep them running. No worries, in Using Roborealm to identify a power outlet the robots can now find it themselves! If you want to check out all his projects in one shot have a look at his Robotics category and see if you agree with us that he just doesn't sleep!

Dream Cheeky USB Car

Mon, 03 Dec 2007 01:00:00 PST

The DC Car module provides control over the Dream Cheeky USB Car. The Dream Cheeky USB Car is an inexpensive device that is controlled by your computer. The DC Car module allows RoboRealm to automatically control the movement of the car using an overhead camera or a very small camera attached to the car. The USB Car is a fun way to get started with controlling devices using vision.

Color Balance

Sun, 26 Nov 2007 01:00:00 PST

Processing images for color is one of the easiest ways to identify an object within an image. However, color is never constant and can change drastically based on the illumination (sunshine, incandescent bulb, etc.) and even on the type of camera used. In an effort to reduce these effects the Color Balance module was added to provide you both a manual and automatic way of adjusting the overall colors within an image. If you're trying to detect color be sure to try the automatic mode of the Color Balancer which may help your values to be more consistent from frame to frame.

Email

Sun, 26 Nov 2007 01:00:00 PST

Email has become one of the most prominent and popular forms of communication in the Internet lifestyle today. Leveraging this communication, the new Email module allows you to send an email from RoboRealm that contains both text and an image. See the example in the notes to learn how you can create a configuration that emails you once movement is detected. Now you can be even more informed by receiving emails that contain processed images from RoboRealm.

Surveyor SRV-1b

Sun, 18 Nov 2007 01:00:00 PST

The newest 802.11 Blackfin based Surveyor Robot is now out and RoboRealm is very pleased to announce a new module that supports that new robot configuration. With increased wireless speed using 802.11 and sporting the powerful Blackfin dsp onboard processor the SRV-1b is one of the nicest robots to use for your vision related experiments. A special thanks to the folks at Surveyor for getting us the very first production version of the SRV-1b for use at the RoboDevelopment show and for testing the new RoboRealm module.

Trail Follower

Sun, 18 Nov 2007 01:00:00 PST

This tutorial shows you how to make the Surveyor robot following a trail of orange squares. The goal of this tutorial is introduce different techniques for segmenting/identifying orange squares in a variety of lighting conditions. The robot should follow the trail and turn around to continue back over the trail looping from end to end. Note that no encoders or other sensors other than vision are used in this scenario. This tutorial also introduces the newest release of the Surveyor SRV1b that uses the blackfin dsp and 802.11 wireless connectivity.

Digital Reader

Sun, 18 Nov 2007 01:00:00 PST

This tutorial shows you how to read information from your temperature gauge, water heater, barbecue temperature, coke machine, laundry timer, etc. from your PC. While most modern sensors today have the ability to interface to PC based systems at lot of older devices do not. They do, however, offer a digital display that can be read by humans. You can use RoboRealm to read these digits from those devices and use that information in new ways on your PC.

Polar_Transform

Sun, 18 Nov 2007 01:00:00 PST

Joining the updated Radial Transform the Polar Transform adds additional capabilities when using omnidirectional 360 panoramic type cameras in unwrapping the images into something more consumable by us and by standard vision algorithms. Using omnidirectional cameras a robot can instantaneously capture images in all directions which is a requirement for situations where fast moving objects like soccer balls need to be tracked.

Bayer Filter

Thu, 1 Nov 2007 01:00:00 PST

For those of you using a Bayer CCD camera the Bayer module will demosaic the pixel values into an RGB color approximation.

Path Planning

Tue, 16 Oct 2007 01:00:00 PST

The Path Planning module is used with an overhead camera looking down at an arena to control a robot along a path designated by waypoints. Be sure to check out our new Path Planning Tutorial to see how the Boe-Bot is controlled along a path.

Button Interface

Tue, 16 Oct 2007 01:00:00 PST

The Button Interface module provides a quick way to create a simple GUI interface that links a couple buttons to RoboRealm variables. It is a great way to control your robot using custom buttons.

Delta Frequency

Tue, 16 Oct 2007 01:00:00 PST

The Delta Frequency module provides a way to detect oscillating objects at a specified frequency. For example, waving at your computer's camera is one such an action.

Virtual Camera Driver

Mon, 15 Oct 2007 01:00:00 PST

In our continued efforts to provide additional integration points with other applications we now introduce the RoboRealm Virtual Camera Driver. The VCam driver allows other applications that manipulate or analyze images to access the processed results of RoboRealm as if RoboRealm were just another webcam in your system. The VCam driver adds a new Video Capture device to your system that RoboRealm will update as it processes images. You can also use the VCam driver to provide the webcam source image to another application to process. This allows more than one application to access a webcam's image in succession.

RoboDevelopment

Mon, 24 Sep 2007 01:00:00 PST

Thanks to the helpful folks over at RoboDevelopment we will be exhibiting at that show in San Jose on Oct 25 & 26th. Come see us at booth #114. Should be a fun show!

Sample Color

Mon, 10 Sep 2007 01:00:00 PST

The Sample Color module provides a way to compare a specific image area with known colors to determine which color is most representative of the area. The module performs an averaging over the specified image area and compares this resulting value with color values entered into the Nearest Color list.

Sample Edge

Mon, 10 Sep 2007 01:00:00 PST

The Sample Edge module provides a way to detect edges along a specified path. The path is a single line that you can manually place on the image or control the position using variables.

Vanishing Point

Mon, 20 Aug 2007 01:00:00 PST

Vanishing points are wonderful side effects of depth that robots can use to guide them down hallways. The Vanishing Point module identifies the vanishing point location within the current image and provides you a way to control devices with respect to that point.

Straight Line

Mon, 20 Aug 2007 01:00:00 PST

The Straight Line module identifies straight lines within the image. Using edge contours the module can merge line segments into straight line much faster than the Hough transform. In addition, filters for the slope, size and proximity provide better control over filtering lines within images.

Line Corner

Mon, 20 Aug 2007 01:00:00 PST

The Line Corner module identifies corners based on an edge detected image. Using contours to guide its search the module identifies corners created by line intersections to identify corners that may not actually exist but are implied from line segments.

Ring Corner

Mon, 20 Aug 2007 01:00:00 PST

Similar to Edward Rosten's FAST corner detector the ring corner detector module provides another way to identify corners. Corners are great features to detect as they are scale, translation and rotationally invariant which hopefully make them more repeatable in successive frames.

Visual Anchor

Tue, 07 Aug 2007 01:00:00 PST

In RoboRealm's continued investigation of image stabilization the Visual Anchor module has been added. This module allows a robot to know how far it has moved with regards to a known scene. This module uses a technique classified under Visual Odometry. Visual odometry uses vision to calculate how far you have traveled instead of using encoders. This has the advantage of being more accurate in situations where wheel slippage is expected (such as traveling on the sandy Martian surface!).

Sample Line

Tue, 07 Aug 2007 01:00:00 PST

The Sample Line module does just what you would expect. Given one or more lines in a image it "samples" the edge created by objects or edges. This line sampling can then be used to perform your own analysis or saved to disk to be used by other applications.

RoboticsConnection Traxster Robot

Mon, 30 Jul 2007 01:00:00 PST

The RobConn_Traxster module provides an interface from RoboRealm to the RoboticsConnection Traxster Robot. The Traxster Robot Kit was designed to be used as an indoor educational robotics kit and works very well over carpet using its injection molded tracks powered by two DC gear head motors. The kit provides a lot of room ontop of the robot for enhancements such as pan/tilt head, cameras, and for additional sensors such as infrared and sonar. The RoboRealm RobConn_Traxster module provides an interface to the robot to provide control of the robot based on machine vision.

Video Stabilization

Mon, 30 Jul 2007 01:00:00 PST

Video stabilization is an important part of video processing. Many routines require stationary cameras in order work correctly. Knowing how the image has changed helps to understand how your robot may be moving. The video stabilization module is the first in a line of visual odomotry modules that will allow you robot to better understand how it is moving within the environment. The video stabilization module shows how to stabilize shaky video and exposes those parameters as variables to be used in understanding the robots movement.

Yost Engineering ServoCenter

Mon, 23 Jul 2007 01:00:00 PST

The ServoCenter board provides for the control of up to 16 servos per board. Each board can be separately identified and serially chained to control up to a total of 256 servos. The ServoCenter offers seek speed and scaled resolution for each individual servo. This allows you to move one servo to a position slowly, while another is moving to a different position at a faster speed.

Pololu SSC

Mon, 16 Jul 2007 01:00:00 PST

The Pololu Serial Servo Controller (SSC) provides great fine tune control for up to 8 servo's per board. The Pololu SSC understands the Mini-SSC II protocol but adding in the native protocol of the SSC provides better control over speed and resolution for your servos.

RoboRealm MSRS Simulation

Mon, 10 Jul 2007 01:00:00 PST

If you don't have a robot and want to experiment with vision processing RoboRealm now can be used with the MSRS simulation package to process camera images generated by the simulation engine. This is a great and fun way to experiment with vision routines without needing to have a physical robot around.

Dimension Engineering Sabertooth

Mon, 2 Jul 2007 01:00:00 PST

RoboRealm is excited to announce our first DC motor controller module. The Dimension Engineering Sabertooth module adds an interface to the Sabertooth DC motor controller. The Sabertooth motor controller can handle two DC motors up to 5A per board with a maximum of 8 boards per PC. This module allows you to control DC motors from your PC via Serial or USB signals using the Sabertooth board.

Histogram Levels

Mon, 2 Jul 2007 01:00:00 PST

The Histogram Levels module provides a way to control the gamma and scaling of color channels. This module will process each color channel to bend and scale the color values into better visual results.

MSRS

Mon, 2 Jul 2007 01:00:00 PST

The RoboRealm MSRS 1.5 interface has been updated with more routines to capture variables from RoboRealm into the MSRS system. Have a look at the new MSRS 1.5 package that includes a GetVariableExample orchestration program to help you incorporate RoboRealm data into your MSRS orchestration applications.

Exponential Histogram

Mon, 2 Jul 2007 01:00:00 PST

To counter the Logarithmic Histogram module arrives the Exponential Histogram module. This allows you to convert an image to Logarithmic space, perform some filtering and then restore the image to linear space using the Exponential Histogram.

Display Line

Mon, 2 Jul 2007 01:00:00 PST

The Display_Line module provides a way to automatically draw lines from one point to another. This is useful to better visualize what shape extracted points create. See what we did using a laser pointer and the display_line module to connect the laser points.

Parallax Boe-Bot

Mon, 28 May 2007 01:00:00 PST

The Boe-Bot is one of Parallax's best sellers. With many add-ons and applications available it also proves to be a very versatile product and is used widely in academic, research and hobbyist communities. RoboRealm has added a Boe-Bot module that provides control of the Parallax Boe-Bot from RoboRealm. The module provides you with an easy way to send commands to the Boe-Bot based on variables created within RoboRealm.

Fast Fourier Transform

Tue, 15 May 2007 01:00:00 PST

The Fast Fourier Transform is a staple tool in signal processing. The new FFT module adds the transform capabilities of the Fourier Transform to RoboRealm. The transform is useful for removing unwanted periodic noise within images. Perhaps those with bad camera reception may find the filtering capabilities of the FFT useful.

Combine RGB Channels

Fri, 4 May 2007 01:00:00 PST

What's a world without color? The Combine RGB module lets you recreate color images based on other channels. Now you can process image color channels separately and recombine them into a new image. We've also added XZY, YIQ, and HSV modules to our color conversion set. All color modules have also been upgraded to convert back from their respective color spaces into RGB.

Photoshop Plugin Host

Fri, 4 May 2007 01:00:00 PST

RoboRealm can now work with some Photoshop Plugins. You can now use Photoshop plugins that don't require configurations to be saved within RoboRealm. Note that not all Photoshop plugins will work as most are not typically meant for video processing and thus may be quite slow.

Moravec Interest Operator

Mon, 16 Apr 2007 01:00:00 PST

Similar to the Harris corner detector the Moravec Interest Operator identifies interesting points within the image. Interest points are often used for object tracking and recognition. They also tend to identify corners of objects as corners are great features to track since they are scale, translation, rotationally invariant.

Lynxmotion Sequencer Interface

Mon, 16 Apr 2007 01:00:00 PST

RoboRealm has partnered with Lynxmotion to provide an interface from RoboRealm to the Lynxmotion Sequencer program. Now you can trigger complex servo sequences from RoboRealm based on what RoboRealm can see.

Microsoft Robotics Studio 1.0

Tue, 03 Apr 2007 01:00:00 PST

RoboRealm has partnered with Microsoft to interface the smart camera capabilities of RoboRealm into the Microsoft Robotics Studio 1.0 platform. The MSRS system can now interact with RoboRealm to request low level image processing and computer vision tasks that are then acted upon within the MSRS system. Follow the installation instructions to learn what the possibilities between the MSRS and RoboRealm have to offer.

Lynxmotion SSC-32

Tue, 03 Apr 2007 01:00:00 PST

The Lynxmotion SSC-32 module allows you to interface RoboRealm to servos using a controller made by Lynxmotion called the SSC-32 Servo Controller. The servo controller supports up to 32 channels of 1uS resolution. In addition the board provides synchronized movement so that all servos will update at the same time. The board also supports 4 digital or analog inputs for adding additional sensors to your robotic projects.

Leaf LISP API

Mon, 02 Apr 2007 01:00:00 PST

RoboRealm is happy to announce a new API connection to LISP specifically towards The Leaf Project. The Leaf Project is an open source implementation of an artificial life program based loosely on the game Creatures. If you are a hobbyist robot engineer and you're looking to create an interactive robot be sure to have a look at the Leaf Project.

Floor Finder

Mon, 02 Apr 2007 01:00:00 PST

Knowing where the floor extends to beyond the immediate robot vicinity can be very helpful in avoiding obstacles. In fact, Stanley, the winner of the past DARPA grand challenge, combined a vision technique with lasers to win the race. The Floor Finder module implements part of this strategy (minus the lasers) to provide you with some basic path planning capabilities.

Mouse

Fri, 16 Mar 2007 01:00:00 PST

We did something totally new today ... we were able to grab and drag a window around on the desktop without touching the mouse or keyboard. We did this by just moving around a red ball. This is not going to make the mouse extinct but it is a fun new interface that makes a lot of sense in some situations.

Affine Transform

Mon, 12 Mar 2007 01:00:00 PST

Not all images are perfectly aligned with the camera view. The Affine Transform provides a way to align an object into a more uniform view in preparation for measurement or other attribute analysis.

Radial

Mon, 12 Mar 2007 01:00:00 PST

If you take pictures with webcams that use smaller lenses you will notice a rounding of straight lines. These are known as barrel or pincushion distortions. Using the Radial transform you can correct for those distortions to improve the image content.

Surveyor SRV-1

Sat, 03 Mar 2007 01:00:00 PST

RoboRealm now supports the Surveyor SRV-1 robot with the addition of the Surveyor_SRV1 module. The folks at Surveyor have designed a really nice robot for use in machine vision and we're excited to join RoboRealm and the SRV-1. To show you a quick example of what is possible have a look at our wall avoiding tutorial that shows off the new module by helping the SRV-1 avoid walls.

IRobot Create

Mon, 19 Feb 2007 01:00:00 PST

Many of you have probably already discovered IRobot's new Create Robot that was announced in Vegas at CES. We were very excited about seeing its potential given its very inexpensive price range. We've happy to announce that we REALLY like the Create! It is just a great robot base. For those of you who don't like to get into the mechanics of building a robot base from scratch it is a really nice platform. We're happy to announce that RoboRealm now speaks Create's Open Interface language! If you're interested in incorporating vision into the Create then you will need to check out what RoboRealm plus the Create have to offer.

Creative Live Motion

Sat, 17 Feb 2007 01:00:00 PST

Joining the Logitech Orbit camera RoboRealm now supports the Creative Live! Motion webcam that also has pan and tilt built into the camera. These cameras are a great way to experiment with pan tilt systems incorporated with vision.

Population Threshold

Fri, 16 Feb 2007 01:00:00 PST

Natural images often produce many small pixel groupings that need to be clustered together to produce larger blobs that can be further processed by other modules. The Population Threshold module provides a quick way to cluster those unconnected pixel groupings while ignoring other sparse clusters.

Shape Matching

Mon, 05 Feb 2007 01:00:00 PST

We've really improved the shape matching capabilities of RoboRealm by adding in multiple shape detection and filters to remove bad or unwanted objects. The Shape Match module provides you a way to examine objects based solely on their shape (or silhouette). You can also read a great forum discussion that lead to its improvement at Object Analysis.

Circles

Sun, 28 Jan 2007 01:00:00 PST

Detecting circles is a very basic need for many vision projects. We've introduced a new contour based circle detector that should help you detect those illusive balls, coins, traffic lights, finger tips, etc.

Mosaic

Mon, 22 Jan 2007 01:00:00 PST

For many of you one camera was not enought! RoboRealm now supports up to 16 simultaneous cameras! This should be enough for everyones camera needs. Using multiple cameras is easy. Just plug in all available USB cameras and use the modules to process them as needed. You will notice the cameras being listed in many of the dropdown menus within modules that make sense. For example, the Mosaic module can be used to create a mosaic of all the camera images. Other modules include the Marker module (easiest way to switch the current processing to another camera view), the Math module, the Replace Blob modules, and more.

Logitech Orbit

Mon, 15 Jan 2007 01:00:00 PST

Need an easy to use pan/tilt device? Have you looked at the Logitech Orbit camera? We've had one for a while and are very pleased with the image quality. We've now introduced an Orbit module that allows you to control the pan/tilt actions of that camera. This is a great solution for a pan/tilt camera that can be attached to any PC based solution using USB.

Connect Points

Mon, 15 Jan 2007 01:00:00 PST

Often after using an edge detector or thresholding an image you are left with many points along a potential edge that are slightly disconnected. Subsequent processing would work better if these points were connected. The Connect Points does just that. Points that are close to each other are connected together and help "connect the dots".

Keyboard Interface

Mon, 15 Jan 2007 01:00:00 PST

We introduced the Joystick control a while back and it became quickly apparent that many of you don't have Joysticks! We've handled that issue by providing a keyboard interface to perform a similar function. Now you can control your USB missile launcher using your keyboard.

USB Missile Launcher Tutorial

Mon, 28 Dec 2006 01:00:00 PST

Our latest tutorial introduces two new modules. The Joystick module allows you to control your robotic projects using an ordinary joystick. The USB Missile Launcher module provides control over the Dream Cheeky USB Missile Launcher. The tutorial shows how we used those two modules to setup joystick control of the Launcher.