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Monday, August 25, 2008 10:51 AM

RoboHum V2 (Part 2 – The operating system)

If you missed part 1 , please read it here Next in our series of upgrading RoboHum from V1 to V2, we decided to change our operating system from Windows XP Embedded to Windows CE. The only real problem I ran into here was that I first downloaded the board support package (BSP) for the EBOX-2300 (Not realizing that I should have actually downloaded the EBOX-2300SX). Here is the links for the board support package, etc Windows CE 6 Vortex86SX Windows Embedded CE 6.0 BSP Version B (2008-07-24) Windows...
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Monday, August 25, 2008 10:50 AM

RoboHum V2 (Part 1 – The hardware)

Ok, this is a 3 part series that I had on the back-burner for a while… never had the time to finish it!!! Well, after listening to a DotNetRocks show #364 ( Stacy Harris Does Home Automation! ) I decided it is time to finish it! For more info about RoboHum V1 , read the post here ! The first part of this series will cover the hardware… The new “PC” I selected is the VERY cost-effective EBOX-2300SX-JSK from DM&P. Here is a comparison between RoboHum V1 & RoboHum V2 RoboHum V1 RoboHum V2 Hardware...
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Sunday, July 22, 2007 8:28 PM

Robotic Studio Test Drive

AKA RoboHum 1.0 I decided to skip this week's XPE weekly and take the Microsoft Robotic Studio (MRS) for a test drive! I have to start off by saying... WOW! This is an awesome framework. Anybody that have tried writing software that uses many sensors and actuators and then trying to coordinate them will know that this is not an easy task!!! MRS makes it easy. I will quickly review the 2 parts that makes up the robotic studio and then talk a little about the way I tested it. I will also review...
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