This contest took part almost one month ago so it is the highest time to write down my impressions. This time it was online event. We watched all of the streamings on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, starting from 25th of September. We watched set of very interesting presentations from SKALP society and very amusing andWięcej oRaspberryPI – project for „Baltic Robo Battles” – impressions after the contest[…]
And here are first attempts of making robot to detect obstacles:
Here is our final presentation for this year’s Baltic Robo Battles:
It took me a while to figure out on how to connect from my Android cellphone to ActianZenDB. This time standard tutorial from Actian didn’t work at all. I even asked for help on Actian forum – but somehow advices given there didn’t work for me: https://communities.actian.com/s/question/0D5f300005fQJQ5CAO/problem-with-connecting-from-android-cellphone-xiomi-redmi-note7-to-btrieve-database-on-windows-10-server However after reading half of ActianZen Help, finallyWięcej oRaspberryPI – project for „Baltic Robo Battles” 15 – Android app[…]
Our robot finally got new camera, after death of previous one from the second-hand shop. This new camera is dedicated especially for RaspberryPI. From the manufacturer: „The Raspberry Pi Camera v2 is a high quality 8 megapixel Sony IMX219 image sensor custom designed add-on board for Raspberry Pi, featuring a fixed focus lens. It’s capableWięcej oRaspberryPI – project for „Baltic Robo Battles” 14 – new camera[…]
As a part of our project, I have created simple www application in php, presenting caught thiefs from last 30 mins and parameters gathered, calculated by robot.
My younger son, Borys created his own robot from LEGO Boost on the basis of an excelent book „The LEGO BOOST Idea Book: 95 Simple Robots and Hints for Making More!” by Yoshihito Isogawa: And here is his robot:
Easy way – using ODBC connection: a) created 64-bit ODBC connection (System) in Windows b) create user in your DB acc. to ODBC connection c) use following source code: $conn_str=”dnsNameofYourDB”; $conn=odbc_connect($conn_str,’user’,’passwd’); $sql=”SELECT top 10 First_Name,Last_Name FROM Person”; $rs=odbc_exec($conn,$sql); if ($rs) { while (odbc_fetch_row($rs)) { echo odbc_result($rs,”First_Name”); echo odbc_result($rs,”Last_Name”); } } odbc_close($conn); 2. proper way acc.Więcej oRaspberryPI – project for „Baltic Robo Battles” 11 – how to connect from php to ActianZen[…]
Following ports should be opened on Windows server:
In order to make our project more multimedia, we create some movies around „the making of”. All of the movies are recorded using cellphones – so nothing expensive and special. Nowadays cellphones have such a power that you will not see much difference between movie recoded by more professional camera and the cellphone. As postproductionWięcej oRaspberryPI – project for „Baltic Robo Battles” 9[…]