I have been trickling some smaller updates in the IPMechCam thread in the Trossen Robotics Community forums. This post will serve as a wrap up of all the major updates.
Testing IPMechCam text widget and widget preferences.
IPMechCam has been rolled into a larger software package I am working on for walking robots by the name of UpgraydMech. As of today the only Upgrayd Mech tool available for testing is IPMechCam however.
Four screen widgets are available with a few more in the works. A text widget allows the display of a label along with a value as text. A graph widget displays a value over time in an XY graph. A color scale widget presents a value as a graphical representation similar to a temperature scale. And the simple cross hair widget for gun targeting.
Widget preference settings have had the most improvements. The widgets preferences dialog allows for the creation individual widget instances. It also provides a nice interface for adjusting all the properties of the widgets, managing widget instances, and soon allow the saving and loading of widget settings.
Widgets are able to pull values out of a data stream. This data stream can be accessed by other UpgraydMech tools, robot controllers and robot systems. (Arbotix support? MechWarfare scoring system?)
If you would like to try IPMechCam:
- Download and install Python (either version 2.5 or 2.6 is fine. I use 2.6)
- Download and install wxPython GUI toolkit library.
- Download the current version of UpgraydMech.
- Unzip and run the UpgraydMech.py file.
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