================= IC Comp 2010 Code

Copyright (c) 2011 Joseph Lisee All rights reserved.

License information

The OSI MIT License is used. Please See the file "LICENSE" for information on the history of this software, terms & conditions for usage, and a DISCLAIMER OF ALL WARRANTIES.

About

This is an unfinished set of code from the Robotics Institute 2010 immigration course. It's purpose was to take the positions of balls on a game board and broadcast them over bluetooth to a set of NXT bricks allowing players to better reason about the competition environment. Development was halted when the NXT bluetooth proved to flaky for the task.

What it does have is some basic examples of UDP multicast in python and producer consumer multithreading to handling sending out data to multiple bluetooth devices.

Dependencies

Needed packages

• python-serial (serial libary for talking to the NXT over bluetooth)
• python-protobuf (serialization lib for handling vision messages)
• python-pyinotify (watches dev directory for new bluetooth devices)
• ssl-vision (needed to see target balls in arena)

Install commands

For the python packages::

sudo apt-get install python-protobuf python-serial python-pyinotify

For ssl-vision follow the instruction in the deps/ssl-vision directory.

Generating the Protocol Buffer Files

Run the "genproto.sh" script from the root directory. These are used to communicate with ssl-vision and receive ball positions.