Software and Code

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Intro: 

Welcome to the projects area of Software and Code area of TRCY.  We hope to make this a good starting point of all robotics software needs.  It will showcase free ware and open source code from robot builds around the globe.  

Most of the software here is from my own collection of freeware and open source code along with code I have written for my own creations.  

I would like to invite all visitors of this site to submit their code, software or web links via e-mail to me at RoboJRR@yahoo.com so I can post your code here.  No code is too small, no software is too big.  The more we share the more we can all learn!

As Always, Happy Roboting!

-Justin. Ratliff
President of TRCY.org
Owner of J2RScientific.com

Basic Stamp Based code and software:

• Parallax.inc - The manufacture of the Basic Stamp, is the best source for example code, software and manuals

• Tab SumoBot Build Your Own Robot code, examples and schematics

• GBS301 Serial Bluetooth HyperTerminal configs and BSII Test Program
  
   

PC Based code and software:

• MSDN.microsoft.com has several free and demo software packages available including visual studio.net and a robotics studio package.  Check the site for more information.  While it is not required a broad band connection would help you download the large software files. Please Note: For most of the new MSDN packages you will also need to download and install .net framework which is also free from Microsoft.  The .net framework is a set of tools and runtime files all of the new software uses to run and create application.
• SnapFile.com this is not robotics software per say but it has a wide selection of freeware including programming development tools, automation, text-speech, voice recognition and agent based programs.  They may not be the greatest software, but most are free and it might give you a good place to start when designing your own software.
• TeraTerm - a Pocket PC, Windows CE free ware terminal program.
• EZ-Builder - From EZ-Robot.  A highly recommend robotics platform that comes with a free Windows and Android application.  There is also an optional .NET SDK for making your own Windows based applications through many examples and tutorials.
  

PIC code and software:

• PIC16F84 microcontroller source code for a receiver. It takes TTL serial @ 300 baud and converts it to PWM and
  direction for 6 channels. The PC program transmits joystick position to the other side. - from TRCY member rand3289

.Net (Visual Studio) VB.Net:

Visual Studio Express is a free download from Microsoft and incorporates Visual Basic.net in it.  The .net (DotNet) framework from Microsoft provides a framework in which your application can access almost any Windows feature including, time clock, Media Player, the Internet, Instant messenger, Active Directory, text to speech, speech recognition, etc and a whole host of other applications.  Not only does it give you access these feature, but .net allows you to mix and match code and files from various programming languages.  For instance if someone writes and awesome face recognition application in C++ but you only know how to program in Java or Visual Basic, no problem, you can create what is called a "solution" for your program and attach that other code to your program to access it's features.

Another cool thing about Visual Studio with .net is when you test run an application or debug it, it complies the code for you in an .exe placed in the bin folder of your application directory.  So constantly have a ready made .exe you run or send to others.  To share your complete program with others they need only install the free .net framework installation from Microsoft's website.  It's very cool stuff.

in .Net you are only few lines of code from doing just about anything in the application you create.

If you are having a problem with a vb.net code segment and need help, shoot me an e-mail at RoboJRR@Yahoo.com, I'm sure I can help you. 

• EZ-Face - Multiple face recognition made easy!

RoboRealm:

RoboRealm is free vision processing software from www.roborealm.com  It includes many wonderful filter modules which lets you filter an image for video feed for color, size and shape of objects.  It also allows for edge detects and motion tracking, just to name a few of it's growing list of feature. 

On of the best things about this software is it's link ability to other application.  You can call up the data it produces from image processing in other applications like your own VB.net program.  Using it's API interface you can command RoboRealm processes or call up data from it in other applications.  And using their Extensions interface you can expand what RoboRealm does.  And did I mention it's free! 

It's well support with forums and includes ready to use examples and interfaces for common robot kits like the Boe-Bot.  I'll be sharing some of my RoboRealm setups here soon.