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How to take awesome photos of your NXT creations

Published by Michael Aivaliotis on March 15, 2008 in mindstorms nxt. 0 Comments

I was the first to mentioned in a previous post about the great NXT website called nxtprograms.com. One distinct feature of the site is the crystal clear photos of the robots. Well, you too can take great photos of your own creations. The creator of the site has put up some tutorials on how to take photos just like the ones on the site.



Website: How to Take Good Photos of LEGOs

Braintech demonstrates vision SDK for Microsoft Robotics Studio

Published by Michael Aivaliotis on February 10, 2008 in Robo Development 2007, Robotics and mindstorms nxt. 1 Comment

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Braintech demonstrates Volts-IQ to VI Shots.

Braintech’s VOLTS-IQ Visual Intelligence Software Suite provides feature recognition, object localization and robot guidance in the form of Microsoft Robotics Studio (MSRS) services.

VOLTS-IQ uniquely combines Braintech’s proven robot vision expertise with Microsoft’s powerful MSRS service-based architecture. Using VOLTS-IQ, researchers, commercial product developers and hobbyists can “vision-enable” their robotic projects and products with unprecedented ease and speed, leap frogging the traditional barriers involved with vision development and bringing their ideas to life faster than ever.

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Expanding Mindstorms NXT with LabVIEW

Published by Michael Aivaliotis on February 4, 2008 in Robo Development 2007, labview and mindstorms nxt. 0 Comments



National Instruments continuously works closely with Lego to expand virtual instrumentation into the classroom by developing LabVIEW integration with their Mindstorms NXT platform. In this latest VI Shots video we see a demo of an NI product acquired from Hyperception, the Speedy-33. We see how the Speedy-33 combined with a HiTechnic interface can integrate LabVIEW signal processing algorithms to move an NXT based on audio frequencies.

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