Toy Seeing Car

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I had some ideas for building some "products", or at least doing the technology part. They still relate to this "blind" thing that I have talked to you about, but perhaps where the task is a lot simpler.

Something like say a toy car / train that ran around your floor, but instead of rails you just put some soft white tape down where you would like it to go ... The "sight" would be a simple video device powered by a PC reading, and following the track ...

The next few steps should be simple!!!

I need a VB program to control the great Trust SpaceC@m USB camera and programs, or others like it, and say take shots of say a few per second, analysing, and storing info as a set of objects found through what I think of as OCR technology ... and over time build some 3D objects as well ... this must resolve to the track laid down earlier ...

When that is rolling, then I can say take the camera and portable in the car, and while rolling down some section of highway where there is a strong white line take a set of images. Each should "resolve" to only "see" the white line ...

First picture of the "toy" ... The first as BMP, and the second as JPEG, of course BOTH are now JPEG rendered for this HTML page representation.

 

The "car" Theo might remember is a Christmas present from a while ago ...

Original File: Toy 1.doc, Monday, 19 June 2000

 More on this "blind" computer graphics ...

We all have a future. Annie would sometimes speak mystically and say "I am a star and I will be reincarnated forever ...", or something like that ... Others have a heaven waiting, or a hell ! I wish I could understand how to "give sight" to a computer, and have it navigate - steering, throttle, brake - between some simple white lines painted on the road ...

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