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Wanna drive an web camera Tank over the internet?

magimagi Posts: 35
edited 2006-08-06 13:41 in Robotics
I made this at my university in Sweden at LTH.

Wanna try it? rolleyes.gif

(This is a funny avatar I found. But it is almost like this it works.)
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I have equiped it with paintball and laserdome weapons and a red dot aim.

Contact me for a test drive.

MSN / [noparse][[/noparse]email]spidg@hotmail.com[noparse][[/noparse]/email]

http://media.putfile.com/Tank_paintball_1

Here is a movie made from a guy in Norway:
home.no.net/dyblah/film/tanks.avi

This is a site a guy did after a test drive from Australia.

http://www.roaringsnake.com/misc/article_tank.htm

Prototype 2

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Do you think it would be interesting to have a Internet game with real webcamrobots in a paintball/laserdome battle and be able to hunt real people with the robot?



You can be any where in the world in 30 seconds but as a webcam robot.
You can have a webcam robothumanoid at home and when you need your house cleaned you rent a guy in asia to control your robot and he clean your house from a pc in china. Then you rent a mechanic to fix your car from france. Then you want a professional cook to make you a dinner so you rent a guy from Italy to fix the dinner in your kitchen. And so on.....

I have the robot in Sweden.
Scandinavia and north of Europe get a delay/lag around 0.3-0.5 sec.
The rest of the world get a delay/lag around 1-3 sec becouse they have a satellite link.
Some few people get lucky and dont get a satellite link from USA or Australia and then get a delay/lag around 0.5-1 sec.
I will try to upgrade the web camera robots, so they will be able to compeate against real people on a paintball/laserdome arena/field.

Prototype X

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Regards Magi rolleyes.gif

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Post Edited (magi) : 3/13/2006 11:58:21 PM GMT

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  • Chris SavageChris Savage Parallax Engineering Posts: 14,406
    edited 2006-03-04 03:57
    This thread is being moved from the Projects Forum to the Robotics Forum.

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  • LoopyBytelooseLoopyByteloose Posts: 12,537
    edited 2006-03-04 10:01
    Now that is an interesting idea.

    You can actually have a web camera that is roving and remotely controlled by the viewer.

    Does this thing actually shoot paint balls that are controlled by some mysterious person on the web?

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  • magimagi Posts: 35
    edited 2006-03-04 11:06
    Kramer said...
    Now that is an interesting idea.

    You can actually have a web camera that is roving and remotely controlled by the viewer.

    Does this thing actually shoot paint balls that are controlled by some mysterious person on the web?

    Yes.

    It has now been tested from all over the world by about 800 people.

    Its interesting to se when the tank is driving around outside my house shooting paintaball and knowing it is controlled from the other side of the world, like Australia, Japan or New Zeeland.

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    Post Edited (magi) : 3/4/2006 12:23:33 PM GMT
  • PJAllenPJAllen Banned Posts: 5,065
    edited 2006-03-04 12:57
    magi said...
    Wanna drive an web camera Tank over the internet?
    · If it's any tank worth driving then I want to drive it through the internet.
    · Thank you.
  • LoopyBytelooseLoopyByteloose Posts: 12,537
    edited 2006-03-04 15:04
    PJ,
    Is this and Alice and Wonderland thing you are trying to express?

    If not, I am sure he will give you a shot. [noparse][[/noparse]Pun intended].

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    Post Edited (Kramer) : 3/5/2006 1:15:02 PM GMT
  • magimagi Posts: 35
    edited 2006-03-04 17:53
    Kramer said...
    PJ,
    Is this and Alice and Wonderland thing your are trying to express?

    If not, I am sure he will give you a shot. [noparse][[/noparse]Pun intended].

    Sorry about over instead of through. [noparse]:)[/noparse]

    Please just contact me for a test drive.

    MSN / spidg@hotmail.com

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  • LoopyBytelooseLoopyByteloose Posts: 12,537
    edited 2006-03-05 13:25
    I think we understood the original.

    Language is a funny thing though. You never quite know when something is understood or misunderstood.
    Prepositions are some of the hardest to get right: 'over' and 'through' both work, maybe 'via' or 'by means of' is clearer.

    I think PJ was just expressing a bit of irony and wit by asking for the impossible.

    Still, it is a great project and I imagine that some people would pay for such entertainment.

    You could have a Virtual Carnival on-line and shoot ducks and so forth. A kind of a Virtual Theme Park too -- with a Horror Maze.
    You could set up shop in Vietnam, Laos, or Cambodia as they new for foreign exchange and people would be happy to tend to reloading paint balls all day long.

    Or you could set up in Australia and allow people to just visit Koalas and Kangroos. A safe safari in Africa? Hmmmm.....

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  • magimagi Posts: 35
    edited 2006-03-05 15:01
    Kramer said...
    I think we understood the original.

    Language is a funny thing though. You never quite know when something is understood or misunderstood.
    Prepositions are some of the hardest to get right: 'over' and 'through' both work, maybe 'via' or 'by means of' is clearer.

    I think PJ was just expressing a bit of irony and wit by asking for the impossible.

    Still, it is a great project and I imagine that some people would pay for such entertainment.

    You could have a Virtual Carnival on-line and shoot ducks and so forth. A kind of a Virtual Theme Park too -- with a Horror Maze.
    You could set up shop in Vietnam, Laos, or Cambodia as they new for foreign exchange and people would be happy to tend to reloading paint balls all day long.

    Or you could set up in Australia and allow people to just visit Koalas and Kangroos. A safe safari in Africa? Hmmmm.....

    Turist robots is a nice projekt im working on too.

    I would like to get sponsor by satellite mobile phone company and build a robot with solar panels and drive it all around the world.

    A service robot would be nice to.
    You could then get help from professional people from all over the world.
    Hopfully not to many criminals. [noparse]:)[/noparse]

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  • magimagi Posts: 35
    edited 2006-04-04 23:35
    Hi.

    I have now maybe the first Internet game in the world with remote controlled robot tanks.

    I have now three mini tanks in front of a camera.
    I use these for this first test arena: "battling micro tanks"
    http://www.iwantoneofthose.com/search.do?productCode=MICTANVAR

    These can be controlled from all over the world.

    Contact me 24/7 for a test game.

    MSN / spidg@hotmail.com

    www.gamereality.se

    Regards Magi

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  • boeboyboeboy Posts: 301
    edited 2006-05-31 00:02
    cool!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  • magimagi Posts: 35
    edited 2006-07-30 09:32
    Hi all.

    I have my new flash up on my site.

    www.gamereality.se

    What do you think?

    Regards Magi

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  • DarkCrawlerDarkCrawler Posts: 24
    edited 2006-07-31 20:00
    You can also try Plantraco's free Desktop Rover live demo. It's awsome!!!! cool.gif

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  • DiablodeMorteDiablodeMorte Posts: 238
    edited 2006-08-01 04:14
    magi said...
    Hi all.

    I have my new flash up on my site.

    www.gamereality.se

    What do you think?

    Regards Magi

    Your intro shows up in my firefox about the size of a quarter... You may want to fix that
  • magimagi Posts: 35
    edited 2006-08-06 13:41
    Use Internet Explorer.

    How long time did it take to load?

    Regards Magi

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