Robotics is definitely a very good field to work in… i have really enjoyed working on my project although i was given no courses at the university talking about robotics field.

First of all, the idea was to create an application that would control the car movement. This was written in C# and inpout32.dll library which enables parallel port input/output operations on windows xp. The computer’s parallel port was connected to a transmitter circuit that contains radio frequency wireless transmitter which will send any bits coming in from the computer’s parallel port. On the car end, there was a receiver which will redirect it’s input to a 16f84a microcontroller that will translate the 4 bit’s received and perform the action. Some of the 4 bits combination were used for regular car movements, such as forward, backward … etc. And some other were meant to move the wireless camera left and right. As for the wireless camera which had an another wireless transmitter build in and the receiver connects to TV-Card on computer. We used a servo motor and an another microcontroller to take the bits received from the first PIC and do some PWM coding for the servo to move according to signal.
until now we have 1 pair of transmitter/receiver working to move car and camera and we already said that camera has it’s own transmitter/receiver so we dont have to worry about that?

As for the sensors, we have used an another pair of wireless transmitter receiver and also an another microcontroller that takes the input from the sensors and sends the signals to the application to show proper notifications on any blocks that might be anywhere around the car. But although i graduated, i am still working to improve the sensor’s, because they are not fully functional until now and i dont have alot of information about IR sensors and their properties in order to make them work 100%.

Hope that helps,
If you need any further information, please let me know and i will gladly help

Rakan

Firstly congrats on ur score.I’m sure u’ve worked hard for it.

I am a final year engineering student (telecom) from Bangalore,INDIA.

As a matter of fact my project too is a robot car controlled via pc.An addition being the implementation of an alcohol sensor.

Could u give me the details as to how u went about it.
Thanks

Hazem Mohammed,
ArabTeam2000 VB.NET Forum Moderator

Regards
Suhaib Al-Helo

This was a simple introductions about kubuntu and linux in general that’s why i did not get into details of features of the new 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon because i would like to express how much i liked linux as a windows user for new comers. Because average computer users like to read what they understand, once you get them going to try Kubuntu linux and get them to check it out for sometime you can then post some of features.
You can install ubuntu then install KDE on it and transform Ubuntu to Kubuntu but why all this hassle? You can just download Kubuntu and get done with it

Actually, i dont have any idea about VirtualBox but i am assuming it is a Virtual Machine simulator. I think some advanced topics like these will not fall into the category of the post title, hence “Introduction”.

Regarding the .NET developer. I am not really a .NET developer but you can call me more of a .NET beginner because i only started using .NET recently and i did not have the chance to get any deaper as i have alot of work on other projects. But again, for introduction i did not mention anything about mono project and .NET development in this post because it is an introduction.
Mono is not a compile for C#. Here is a quote from monoproject.org
“Mono provides the necessary software to develop and run .NET client and server applications on Linux, Solaris, Mac OS X, Windows, and Unix. Sponsored by Novell (http://www.novell.com), the Mono open source project has an active and enthusiastic contributing community and is positioned to become the leading choice for development of Linux applications.”

Thanks Ward.
Rakan

Thanks for your

However, your saying that Kubuntu is like your best choice of Linux.. how about telling more about the latest ubuntu (Gutsy Gibbon) Release ?! I’d be more interested in knowing how VirtualBox can work with different Operating Systems at the same time including linux (if perhaps u have any idea about it)..

I can’t see any difference in using Kubuntu instead of Ubuntu as you mentioned above; since I can install Ubuntu and then add KDE to it or install the Kubuntu Metapackage; therefore one can avoid limiting the use of one OS to mixing features from other Operating Systems…

also, I am more interested in VirtualBox, where one can run different OS at the same time, giving each one different amount of memory allocation and space (for example: u could run Ubuntu Linux, WinXP, FreeBSD, and probably another extra OS such as MacOS X); so only then the user can benefit from the use of multiple operating systems..

For example, for some linux user like you who is also a .NET developer, i’ll give u an extra hint; Mono.. an open source C sharp compiler.. could be used under different operating systems; i think u would find it hard to switch between linux and windows to work on C sharp.. so here u go..

anyway since I myself have problems with VirtualBox, I’d be happy if we could try to figure out how we could benefit from it efficiently and try it out..

just waiting for a new post..

Good Luck