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Posts from — September 2009

Okay, Now Get Back To Work

I hooked up the webcam and noticed the edge detector and contour recognition displays going wild.  So, I got a little side-tracked…

Star Trek

I am definitely going to have to play around with OpenCV some more when I’m done with this robot project.

September 7, 2009   No Comments

But first…

It’s time for a bit of refactoring.  My main() is something like 200 lines of code that doesn’t belong all in one place.  I had been trying to keep everything in the PongLogic class, but that fell apart after a while.  Gotta take care of that.

September 7, 2009   No Comments

So Now What?

So, the robot won a game. It won largely on luck, though, it was making plenty of mistakes along the way.  But, it’s now time to move on.

See, it’s all well and nice that it can play based on the video signal from a  TV input card fed directly from the Atari into the computer.  But that’s not terribly practical, is it?  Who has a TV input card to hook an Atari up to?  What do people usually play Atari on?

Static

They play on Channel 3.

This is going to complicate things…

September 7, 2009   No Comments

Now I have to implement the “Smack Talk” feature…

EPIC WIN

Booyah!  Chew on that, Stella!

September 7, 2009   No Comments

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