IVU Robot Warez --------------- Team: Kallahar, Kelvin, Tacitus, DaMan Start Date: May 6, 2004 Objective: Build a smallish bot that picks up one ping pong ball at a time and puts it in a bin. Sensors: parallel port - USB Camera for vision - IR "ball picked up" sensor - if the camera can't see: tilt limit switches (2) - if needed: shaft encoders (2) Motor Control: serial port (direction + speed, each channel) - Left Wheel - Right Wheel - Tilt (for the height of the tip of the arm OV511 Project: http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/ovtvid-bsd/ovtvid-bsd/vid.c?rev=1.2&view=auto from http://ovtvid-bsd.sourceforge.net/ PPM Format: http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/~pbourke/dataformats/ppm/ OV511 Datasheet: http://mxhaard.free.fr/spca50x/Doc/Omnivision/ds_511P.pdf