I think the look of a “semiconductor” wafter will be very boring because it is just a machine. Asking for the code would be very much more interesting. The outside look is mostly (except for hobbyist robots) very boring. Mine are an Arduino board, the electronics around it and wires. When it has to move, I just place it on a movable robotplatform with two or 4 motors driving it. I will see if I find the time to show you all an example. I will in this case take the outside look into consideration. I will make photographs of every step but I need time.
Here a youtube video http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=xHuzFrltPzU
While following the current 2013 US Open Tennis tournament, I got intrigued by the robot used to determine if a ball is IN or OUT.
How accurate is this robot’s vision? How is it done, with radar… heat?
It turns out the computer vision is implemented using six/seven cameras. The ball’s position and trajectory is calculated in 3D, accurate to 5 millimeters, using all the frame data collected from these cameras.
Seems like a smart way to implement computer vision.
I, for one, welcome our new DARPA overlords.
Lol
I have used Xojo to talk to Arduino, DigiSpark, and other Atmel Devices made by different manufactures. Some of them use HID which I find easier.
There is lots of info about stl files on the web. It should be possible to visualise them in Xojo and/or process it.
The new standard will be AMF files (xml based).
They will be replacing stl (binary) soon.
read more here:
http://amf.wikispaces.com/
William, how do you handle the connection with the device recognized as HID? Do you use the MBS USB class, declares, a dll (personally I am ineterested about how you do it in Windows),…
Thanks,
Pixe
do you have a google hangout page?
I have one, and it’s made for Arduino and Xojo engineering of projects, code and electronics. Working toghether.
https://plus.google.com/u/1/b/111383746177926545948/
google plus name “produino”
Perhaps this can be a good place to have conversations (video) and posts about microcontrollers -arduino- and xojo.
Next Thursday at 6:30 pm NZST I’m hosting a G+ hangout with Dr James Mullins (presented at Real World 2013) for a local meetup group. https://plus.google.com/u/1/circles/user-group-p3b7e1bee89dd70a8
Probably a bit off topic, but have have you guys seen the trailer of the ROBOCOP movie remake?
The movie has a phenomenal cast of actors.
Well… I’m brazilian. The director, Jose Padilha, is brazilian. And I must to say… I didn’t like the trailer. Got you huh? 
The edition has low quality and the director made few decisions I didn’t like (ex. organic hand exposed).
Yip, got roped in pretty good by the trailer…
The organic hand is different from the original 1987 version of the movie. Not sure if I dislike the idea though. It could potentially make it easier for the audience to identify with the character.
I am afraid that we are deviating a bit the topic. But… I don’t feel that JP has let the organic hand for some kind of identification, I believe he did it as a “signature” for not being “so similar” to the original. But that, should not be a logical choice for a mad scientist creating the “ultimate weapon”. The scientist made all the conections to control the legs and the left arm, so he could have discarded the right side too and did the same (as the original did). The original idea, in 87 was “Let’s a cop and discard the organic parts just to get the organic processor, the brain”. After the explosion. This “Robot” is right-handed, and an organic hand! Let’s fire on this hand! Let’s disable him! 
Did you see the explosion that destroyed all his body? When the helmet is open, Kinnaman shows his face clean as a baby skin. Nah! Well… Let’s see if JP can attract my attention to a next better trailer. In a boring weekend in 2014 I’ll probably check it out. 
Beagelbone Black
Norway, UTC +1
Sorry I didn’t see this before, but I have a number of robots that use XOJO as the main robot OS and communicate to arduinos, parallax propellers and the new Piksi RTK GPS. I have a website about my robotic ventures although I haven’t put much detail up. Check it out if you’s like: www.hydrorobotics.com
Austin, Texas
So I finally watched the movie last week… and given the few technical details that you pointed out, that I have to admit, once you know about it, you notice it all the time… I did find the movie very entertaining.
Together with a family member in Botswana, we build a robot controlled incubator for his chicken cradle. We use two arduino’s, two 8-relais boards, an Xbee module together with some electronic circuitboards which we made ourselves.
Just put the eggs in, the incubator does the rest. It even sense when chicks are hatched. During the last two days of the incubating cycle eggs are no longer turned.
It is a rare 12 Volt incubator which gaves us a lot of problems finding the necessary compatible parts. Therefore many electronic circuits are created by ourselves.
It is constructed with solar panels in mind. The loader is completely designed and build by myself. It measures the state of the battery, when the battery becomes too low, it is automaticly drained and then load again 100%.
On this moment it is connect by a 12V external power supply which simulates the solar panels. However when connect Solar panels which we intend next year, it should operate completely ecologicall on free energy coming from the sun.
It is a device which can be teached, it take decisions based on PID controlling and past experiences. It logs everything, actions, environmentt parameters, instructions from the outside.
I designed and programmed the User Interface in Xojo through the Xbee. The communication between the Xbee and Xojo was done by one of the youngsters here.
It took me already two years to come to this stage and a lot of blood, sweat and tears. The end of our endeavour is not in sight for long because my relative companion comes every time with new ideas. In his professional life, he is a professor at the university in finance and economics. A very intelligent man, full of bright ideas.
The professor can from his chair watching television with his family, check the incubator, input corrections and controll the whole process.
I found out being in Botswana (Africa) one must be very inventive and creative to succeed. I do not know if our neighbour Alwyn Bester has the same experiences but life there is very challenging. Over the last 4 years I had to become a farmer, programmer, inventor and a fast learner.
I like this kind of things very much. I was already interested in Robotics in 1984. Regretfully enough I only could start somewhere in 2005 with my first Lego RIS/RCX robotics mindstorms kit. That fueled my interests in robotics again up until today.
While Xojo does an excellent job in controlling and communicating, I do not see very much use as a direct tool for robotics controllers itself. That is not what Xojo is designed for. But for a front end to a robotics device, it is certainly very usefull. For our solution, it works perfectly.