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At Maker Faire UK I wanted to have an exhibit anyone could interact with. So I took along my robots and modified one of the Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio (MRDS) Visual Programming Language (VPL) examples to allow both speech and Xbox controller...
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Charles Stacy Harris III (the third!) has a new post on Coding4fun. He has implemented some home automation services using Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio. I don't think the hardware he has is available in the UK, but his short article does show...
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I'm taking part in the Microsoft Windows Embedded European Tour - doing the Turin and Stockholm gigs later this month :-) I shall be presenting the Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio session and including as many demos as possible. A1-DW is to heavy...
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Aldebaran have provided a CTP of the Nao simulation for Microsoft Robotics Studio's soccer simulation. Find more details here .
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This week I attended the Architect Insight Conference in the UK. The conference is for leading software architects to share the latest implementation strategies. I was exhibiting my Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio(MSRDS) work accompanied by Lib-b...
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Marc Mercuri gives Tina Wood the details and the demo of the RoboChamps challenge: RoboChamps: My robot is bigger than your robot
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Yes!!! Robochamps.com is now live. The first of the RoboChamp challenges has been released along with the availability of the web site. The AMAZED challenge places you in control of a CoroBot from CoroWare. The maze is not just a normal maze - it is filled...
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Today I was at the Open University attending a robotics in the curriculum event. The event, organised by Dr Ashley Green (of Walking with robots, RoboCup Jr and Roberta activities), was designed to bring together educators and industry to share ideas...
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Just a shout out to say I've been working on building some services for the White Box Robotics PC Bot 914. This work has been a bit delayed due to various reasons but I'm making good head way now. My plan is simple. Working from the good work...
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I promised some chaps from Manchester a pointer to the Stinger CE Robotics Kit. So here it is:
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Birmingham ICC saw the UK launch for Windows Server 2008, Visual Studio 2008 and SQL Server 2008 - three of the big developer products from Microsoft. I attended to show Microsoft Robotics Studio on a small stand along with colleague Andy Sithers who...
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Robot devs at Braintech which produces the VOLTS-IQ vision additions for Microsoft Robotics. Robert discusses the various stuff in the SDK (Note 1.6 is out now) and also highlights a wireless camera they are developing for the Lego NXT system. The camera...
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I'm off to Leicester University's 50th anniversary Science Day celebration this weekend - Saturday 8th. I'll be showing off a number of fun things including something I'm working on at the moment - robotic missile launcher targeting :...
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I'm playing with my robots again. This time I want voice control. I discovered that my Bluetooth headset doesn't deliver the quality required by the Windows Vista Speech Recognition function, so I was looking for another headset to use. I can...
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One of my other endeavours during November has reached daylight. During the summer Ian Robson, of Future Publishing, and I cooked up the idea of a Robotics supplement for PC Plus. The accessibility of robotics to normal people has improved greatly over...