ITS ALIVE!!!



or for the hardcore viewers out there
http://valen.botclips.net/900mhz/Its%20ALIVE.jpg


basically 900mhz radio + pic running 3x servo chanells.
all digital like
had it running ok with 98% bad packets and 10% packet loss too
(also it ran the servo ok up to 400Hz, little jittery though ;->)

one directional atm but getting the bot to send stuff back shouldnt be too hard

biggest problem atm is the fact its controll software is written in VB and when it draws to the screen it takes it an age and a half, net result my dual Xeon 3.06 some times drops packets (transmission)

input is via Direct-X so pretty much anything should work perhaps some kind of USB wheel so i can run it off the laptop.

Phase 2 of controll software is to make the screen updates in direct X or at least using drawing API's to speed them up, that should make the CPU use somewhat more sane.
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