Friday, August 28, 2009

Junta Renato y Jorge

Todo va lento, muy lento.

Seguir presionando para que le convenio quede listo a la brevedad.

Analizar la posibilidad de hacer todo simulado, por lo tanto, la programación es cada vez más apremiante.

Monday, August 24, 2009

MSN

Hola.

Solo quería comentarle a Renato que hace ya un tiempo lo agregué al msn pero no lo he visto conectado, no se si no se conecta casi o no me ha aceptado la solicitud. Mas que nada para comentar dudas que surgen con el. Pongo mi correo por si sirve para la comunicación vía msn.

oscar_panczenko@hotmail.com

Saludos cordiales.

Wednesday, August 19, 2009

Junta 19 de Agosto de 2009

Asistentes: Carlos, Arturo, Oscar. (Laura en clase por cambio de horario de la junta).

  1. La lista de distribución se actualizará el viernes. Aquellos que no se hayan registrado en la liga que les envié (http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?hl=en&formkey=cE9GNjFnSzlfT1gycGkwMWhmVnFpT2c6MA..) serán dados de baja asumiendo que ya no tienen interes en el proyecto.
  2. Carlos y Arturo van terminando la parte de funciones de C++. Oscar esta empezando a ver el tema de Polimorfismo.
La proxima junta será en el horario habitual de 9.30 a 10.30 am el miércoles.

Sunday, August 16, 2009

Hello All.


Some days ago I talked about our problem with the bluetooth comunication with a friend of mine (Victor Hugo). He has a lot of experience with wireless communications, specially with microcontrollers (Using robots). He said to me that the most probable error is that we need to configure the microcontroller to use the AirCable Bluetooth adapter as we made it in our own computers for Ubuntu (If the robot had it's computer it would been the same process). This is because the communication is not clear as the usb-serial cable, the only way to make the communication clear is to put a microcontroller to make the communication viable. The problem is that the program to make this possible is very complex and I still don't know how to do it. Victor Hugo can sell us some microcontrollers programed to work with a nRF2401A Tranceiver (1), and the communication between the PC and the robot would be clear, BUT the problem then would be the costs of getting the tranceivers and the microcontrolers.


I hope this info can help :).


Regards.

Thursday, August 13, 2009

Nero in video!!!

Hi everyone!

Here's a video of Nero's behavior which is wrong, somehow the commands that it's receiving are switched. Perhaps someone can give us a clue on what's going on with it.

Regards!

C++ Tutorial

Hi Renato,

again as promised here's the website for the tutorial we're doing: http://pragsoft.com/ When you get there you have to hit the Download link at the left of the site and then go at the end so you can find the Online Books and the C++ Essentials in PDF is the Tutorial.

Regards!

Pioneers in Pictures

Hey everyone!

As promised here are some pictures taken from both Pio and Nero which I'll explain:

1. Here's Nero in a lateral view and in a perspective view, we can see that it's fully operational and assembled (videos in further posts).


2. Here's Pio and it might look a bit disassembled but it's just because as the on board computer has the extra serial ports to use the laser we had to use an auxiliary port that receives the serial commands, though we haven't been able to get the connector we need and we have to make, we hope in the next few days we can get our hands in it and make it fully operational as well.


3. Here are some pictures of the Bluetooth bundle we wanted to use.


Perhaps these images can give a better idea to what we were attempting to do.

Regards to all!

Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Junta del 12 de Agosto de 2009

Asistentes: Renato, Arturo, Laura, Carlos, Jorge.

  1. Renato y yo vimos el avance del convenio entre las universidades. Tenemos que contactar a la gente en nuestra universidad para ver cómo van. En este momento todo está en la burocracia de nuestras universidades.
  2. Discutimos el avance en los tickets de Assembla.
  3. Se extraño la presencia de Oscar; Renato lo quería conocer.
  4. Se abrió la posibilidad de programar el control del robot desde una Palm, iPod, etc. una vez que C++ ya nos sea una cuestión.
  5. Nos enteramos que Renato envió a gente en Berlin los comentarios que se hicieron en este Blog mientras se aprendia Player/Stage y están siendo muy útiles.
Acuerdos:
  1. Seguir estudiando C++. Subir al Blog la liga del tutorial que están usando.
  2. Tomar fotos y videos de los robots y subirlos al Blog. Carlos dijo que el traía la cámara.
  3. Renato y Jorge ver cómo va avanzando el convenio.
  4. Recordamos a los que no pudieron asistir que la junta es a las 9.30 am en el lab. En caso de que nos enlacemos con Renato, sería en mi oficina.

Monday, August 10, 2009

Junta del 7 de Agosto de 2009

Asistentes: Carlos G., Arturo, Laura, Oscar, Jorge.

  1. Platicamos sobre necesidad de aprender C++ lo antes posible. Van a sacar libros introductorios.
  2. La comunicación con los robots será por el momento por cable serial o con una computadora en el robot que se comunica con otro computadora para dar mayor autonomía.
  3. Empezamos con las juntas el miércoles 12 de Agosto a las 9.30 am en el laboratorio.

Tuesday, August 4, 2009

Update

Hey great news!!!

I have computer again and I already instaled ubuntu and player/stage. Playernav, Playerjoy and stage work perfectly and tomorrow I'll be in the lab in order to test conectivity with Pio and Nero in order to leave those 2 working correctly.