a SoR project for all

[TrickyNekro]

trickynero the talk was very much friendly till u did post and talked about stuff i dont think its appropriate to talk about,your language too(check how many F#CK u did) ,,plus, here is not the place to talk about american philosophy of life
we are trying to do somthing for the website in here and if you wanna be cooperative just suggest somthing
yea i could have suggested somthing wrong but thats not a sin i guess
maybe vision is wrong ,,so COME ON lets hear another subject we can do
dont u guys just judge what i suggested,if you think its wrong do suggest another thing

superchiku,,howcome you know that no one here knows about vision coding?

i have some algorithms myself i wanted to share,,the problem is that im using Matlab programming for that
so its a little tough to turn it to C

Again... friendly speaking above all...

sure,,

peace

Man... I was trying to motivate and some off their chairs...
And I do not mind american life style...

Still... I might have been rude... so I'm sorry...

Peace...

[TrickyNekro]

So as soon as peace is restored... and hope everyone is happy...

I have an idea which is nice, easy, and can be materialized with what you already have in your robot....
Still I think vision is far fetched for beginners...

So... Why don't we implant color detection... but not alone...
We can combine it with a gripper...
A photoresistor and three LEDs (Green - Red - Blue) are enough...
Then coding is very easy and can be done experimentally...

With the gripper we can order the robot to catch the color object we want...
Still easy for a beginner and plenty of work to do...
And it only needs some plastic parts, a servo, and some passive electronics and LEDs....

So... what about this...

Lefteris

[benji]

quite a nice one, but id still go with paul ,,a cookbook may include chapters
each person writes a chapter
how about  algorithms cookbook

everyone prepares a tutor about an algorithm and we collect then all of these into the book

im ready to prepare some navigation/pathplanning algorithms like A* ,djiksta ,dynamic A* ....etc

the thing with such a project is easy to distribute its work and easy to collect it into the book

a robot would be a little harder,,
so why dont we start to make a book then if we found our work is flexible together we may go for a robot

we may call it *SoR ALGORITHMS BOOK*

let me see other suggestions,,then we make a voting

[airman00]

there already is books like the one you mentioned benji


But I like the idea of making an SoR robotics book. I would readily right an article for it.

Anyone elese agree?

[airman00]

Also we need a committee of people in charge of this book collaboration

I think around 3-5 people would do the trick

I would gladly be a part of this committee , but it would have to wait for another week or two as I am extremely busy at that time.

Any one up to this task?

[Kohanbash]

Hi
If we decide on the RoboBook I can help review Algorithms/Write ups. I can also create a section on Kalman Filtering (largely based from my previous posts).

[ed1380]

*poke* *poke* or how about you work on the SOR project. you know the modular boards.

[airman00]

*poke* *poke* or how about you work on the SOR project. you know the modular boards.

or both

the Society of Robots book sounds very promising

[benji]

lookslike the book is getting accepted by many
let say

1/benji    (article)
2/airman  (article)
3/sdk32285 (article + review)

thats great aint it?
we still need more people and Admin's opinion

[TrickyNekro]

Well the book would be a very nice idea as soon as we explain the algorithms inside...

We can add behaviors to the 50$ robot and so....


Also modular boards is a very good point... They can be extremely help full..

[paulstreats]

You would need to organise it correctly so each algorythm entry would go something like this:

tiitle : my algorythm
Description: describe what the algorythm does and more importantly why and how
Psuedo code: provide some psuedo style code or block diagram
working example: show an actual piece of code that represents the algorythm

Something like this needs a structure to be decided on and used for all articles so there is a uniform look and it makes it easier for everyone to use

[airman00]

Now what kind of content do we want to put in this book?
All algorithms , or sort of like an improved and more advanced "Robot Builder's Bonanza"

[benji]

i think it would be better to do Algorithms book
its just like paul said exept that i dont see the need for putting the code as
each person can implement it in a different way.
I guess a well explained algorithm would be enough then people code it their own way in different programing languages.

so who wants to join writing this book?

[TrickyNekro]

I'm in... but I won't do anything until 31 May... Have to finish my exams first...

[airman00]

i think it would be better to do Algorithms book

yea I guess
but also we need to throw in simple algorithms , like an algorithm for a scanning sonar , etc.

I;m in aswell

who will be the coordinators?

[TrickyNekro]

i think it would be better to do Algorithms book

yea I guess
but also we need to throw in simple algorithms , like an algorithm for a scanning sonar , etc.

I;m in aswell

who will be the coordinators?

I think we should just suggest the subjects and then choose...

So what are the subjects???

[benji]

im gonna write about  A* pathfinding algorithm

[airman00]

Scanning rangefinder
Line Following

[benji]

due to exams none of us would have enough time to do this right now, so i say everyone gets done on 1 August
so on that date we assemble the book and send it to Admin to put it in the website
but ,,whats the file extention to use? is wordpad good enough?

[airman00]

i was thinking of actually printing the book

everyone send their articles to a coordinator and the coordinator will arrange to print the book
whoever wants it would pay a fee, naturally

[Kohanbash]

If somebody wants to do some GPS related algorithms it would be usefull (waypoint following, etc..)

[TrickyNekro]

I'm in for a gripper and a color sensor... both modules schematics and algorithms...
I'll upload it as a tutorial... at the members tutorial as I live very far to make it a book and just sent it...


Cheers...
Lefteris

[superchiku]

book is it , then i also have many algo's which i would like to share both robot related and not related .. it would be nice seeing my algo being used world wide , so lets get started on that

[airman00]

OK

what I need right now is people telling me exactly what subjects they are doing - I mean exactly

I will do the following as of now, and maybe more
1. Line Following
2. Color Sensing

Just tell me what you guys are willing to do for sure . Ill make a members page for this project.

I'll arrange the organization of topics and even the printing of the book.


,Eric

[airman00]

How many of you guys would buy such a book?

and also check out this page:
 http://www.societyofrobots.com/member_tutorials/node/115

[benji]

great work airman,, thats what we needed, someone to fire it up..
it just feel great that my ideas is turnin into reality
,,come on guys lets get a big book done, i would encourage anyone to contribute
this is our chance to do somthing great

i suggest that airman checks the algorithm and give notes about it to the author to modify it if it needs to.

i will do my work using wordpad as long as you can attach pics to it.

what about the fee? i thought it would be a free book,,but that seems a good idea if we can sell it and
make money out of it as it can be full of algorithms that might be super-helpfull for a beginner

so ,,would this be an online selling book? a pdf version? i guess this is better than printing it as long as there is no one ready to handle printing publishing
...etc

who is gonna be paid for it?

[Kohanbash]

Do we have a target date that articles need to be submitted by?

airman00- You can put me down for Kalman Filtering (I might also try to do a computer vision one but I'll commit to one at a time).
                     If the price is reasonable I would buy one.

[benji]

Do we have a target date that articles need to be submitted by?

i suggest the first of august

airman ,just to ensure , A* pathfinding .

again,, most of the folks comin to SoR , including writers would be out of the USA
i suggest selling it as a PDF online and if you want to you can print it and sell a paper book also.

i thought authors would get a copy for free 

[superchiku]

august will be too soon man we are  having our exams here , and we'll make the book free just think abt all the beginners out there who want to learn things but cant buy them on the net so plzz make them free and make some kinda division lke each team or group handling certain algorithms and codes like benjii u know a lot abt image processing try giving out image processing algo's in the book, also lets include algorithms like djikstra , pathfinding , obstacle avoidance with the sample codes for both PIC and AVR microcontrollers...

If anyone is intrested i would certainly like to share some other algorithms like prefix to postfix conversion and evaluation and all how that will help ill explain if u ppl are interested..

[TrickyNekro]

OK

what I need right now is people telling me exactly what subjects they are doing - I mean exactly

I will do the following as of now, and maybe more
1. Line Following
2. Color Sensing

Just tell me what you guys are willing to do for sure . Ill make a members page for this project.

I'll arrange the organization of topics and even the printing of the book.


,Eric

It's ok for me just the way you arranged it in the members pages these are my subjects

Thanks