*NEW* USB Input/Output Board -- Fusion Brain - Page 55

RobiticDave · 06-29-2007, 12:11 PM

This looks pretty cool!

Do you support this board in MSRS?

btw, here is a cool link. Princeton has entered the Darpa Urban challenge with a Ford Escape Hybrid, and they are using MSRS to control the vehicle.

http://pave.princeton.edu/main/urban-challenge/msrs

2k1Toaster · 06-29-2007, 12:38 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by RobiticDave

This looks pretty cool!

Do you support this board in MSRS?

btw, here is a cool link. Princeton has entered the Darpa Urban challenge with a Ford Escape Hybrid, and they are using MSRS to control the vehicle.

http://pave.princeton.edu/main/urban-challenge/msrs

No I've never even heard of MSRS until now. That's Microsoft Robotic Studio right? I am not sure what would be required for it to work with msrs, but the dll is easily interfaceable, so any custom software that you can write that uses it will work.

2k1Toaster · 06-29-2007, 11:26 PM

w00t. We got a forum.

P3D4T0R · 06-29-2007, 11:27 PM

Swwwwwwwwwwwweeeeeeeeet...

turbocad6 · 06-29-2007, 11:52 PM

BiGGy · 06-30-2007, 05:57 PM

where is this forum? Princeton site?

turbocad6 · 07-01-2007, 12:35 AM

hey, he's right, it's a subforum to the general hardware discussion forum, if you get there by the top of this screen catigory drill down you see it, but if you just go into the general hardware forum you don't even see the fusion subforum! gotta look into that...

skinhead · 07-01-2007, 09:11 AM

I have a question about the outputs, can they be timed too ?

ie. Can you have it so that when you press the button, it powers a relay for x seconds, then turns off ? Reason i ask is for powering solenoids for example.

Appologies if this has been covered before

2k1Toaster · 07-01-2007, 09:32 AM

Quote: Originally Posted by turbocad6

hey, he's right, it's a subforum to the general hardware discussion forum, if you get there by the top of this screen catigory drill down you see it, but if you just go into the general hardware forum you don't even see the fusion subforum! gotta look into that...

I will bring it up.

Quote: Originally Posted by skinhead

I have a question about the outputs, can they be timed too ?

ie. Can you have it so that when you press the button, it powers a relay for x seconds, then turns off ? Reason i ask is for powering solenoids for example.

Appologies if this has been covered before

Yes. The animation feature can be set to a single frame of "on" and then the repeat time is set to how long you want it on. If your output refresh rate is set to 100ms, then 10 cycles is a second. So if you want it on for 1 second, then make an animation that repeats 10 times with the frame only being on. so #ANIMATION#[1];10;0 in the skin file

2k1Toaster · 07-01-2007, 09:36 AM

Also on a note with shipping, I got them out, dont know if they will stay that way. Here is a copy from an email I just sent, because my internet is too unstable right now to retype:

It took me 12 hours to fully test everything, buy/print shipping labels, and pack all the orders. Then I went down to "Postal Annex" or some little place closer than the post office which is like a depository for all courriers including ups/fedex/dhl/usps and some I havent even heard of. Anyways, that was around 2.30 in the afternoon. I got all the boxes in there, and he didnt know if the international boxes were ok as they were (I specifically asked him because the customs declarations looked different), and told me to take those 6 to the real post office to ask. So I did, and they said the paperwork was fine. Then they tried to charge me $240 for those 6 boxes. I said whoa whoa fellas, I already paid for all these boxes and it was only $19 to $21 for each box, so something here is screwy. Then they said, "only brown boxes may be sent internationally for that price". I asked them why I had been able to sent non-flat rate stuff in a flat-rate box before and they said they didnt care, but along with that hike to $0.41 a letter, came an order for no more leniancy with these boxes. So basically, all these boxes I have were ok prior to $0.41 letters, but not anymore. So now I panic. It is about 3pm, and the post guy at the Annex store dropps his stuff off around 3.15. I am about 15 minutes away from him. I learn that because of this, if I were to send any of these boxes, they would be returned back to me, and I would then have to pay the flat rate of $8 a box to ship them out, and the current postage would be no good that I have already paid for. So I take my 6 international boxes, rush down to the Annex store I see his little convertable filled with all twenty-something of our boxes, and he is nice enough to stay a little late for me. I buy 1 brown box for each box I had, and then I re-pile all those into my car. Then rush back to the post office, where they say the lady for taking all the boxes back to the main centre is just pulling up, and it takes her normally 10 minutes to load everything. Normally no problem, but also a new rule is if you pay for postage online, (mostly for express and anything international), it must go out the same day you print it for. So I had to re-wrap all the boxes in brown boxes, tear off the shipping labels from their pouches and stick them in "official USPS" pouches on the brown box all within 10 minutes. Well all the internationals went out. The overnight one made it out, and all but 3 of the regular mail ones made the collection. The lady wouldnt wait the 30 seconds extra, she just took off. I had them there though so the lady at the small post office counter said they were fine, since they are in the basket on the right day, they just wont get mailed today, but they are scanned in. So I think to myself after having been up for 30-something hours, "phew. Got that settled.". Then for some reason the lady has the idea to weigh one of the boxes. Well it was 1 ounce or something over the cutoff for $4.60 postage which is on every single box. And it is now $5.30 to mail them! Well they had already been picked up, and the lady said they may check that, they may not. You wont know until they are all sitting on your doorstep with "not enough postage" labels stuck on them. So great. I bought 3 75cent stamps, and stuck them on the remaining boxes, but I have no idea if any of the other boxes will ship. The international, express, and the 1 ups box, all will ship because postage wont change for those. But all the regular boxes, other than 3, are really just a crap shoot at this point. So I am pretty ****ed off at USPS for enforcing their rules even though they should have for years before, they picked now to do so. If it the same price to ship FedEx ground, then that is what they are going in. Screw you US government.

2k1Toaster · 07-01-2007, 09:38 AM

So until somebody comes and fixes our modem again (leased not owned so we cant do anything about it), I will probably be pretty quiet.

Any questions, just post, and I will try as soon as I can to answer them.

skinhead · 07-01-2007, 05:33 PM

that is absolutely perfect for what i need

When are you going to be putting more of these together ? for example if i paid for one tonight, when would it go out ? (obviously you won't know exactly, but a general figure would be cool

)

Also, will you be able to ship these out to the UK ? (i glance read your last post and noticed you had some trouble shipping internationaly, hopefully that doesnt put you off doing it again

haha)

Cheers fella

greenman100 · 07-01-2007, 09:54 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by skinhead

that is absolutely perfect for what i need

When are you going to be putting more of these together ? for example if i paid for one tonight, when would it go out ? (obviously you won't know exactly, but a general figure would be cool

)

Also, will you be able to ship these out to the UK ? (i glance read your last post and noticed you had some trouble shipping internationaly, hopefully that doesnt put you off doing it again

haha)

Cheers fella

It would go out in 5-7 business days. That figure should come down to 3-5 soon.

We still do international shipping. Much of this is a learning experience for us, but we're doing out best!

skinhead · 07-02-2007, 06:46 AM

ahh right, i was under the impression that all your stock had been sent out as pre-orders. In that case, ill put payment down for one one night this week, cheers

greenman100 · 07-02-2007, 06:53 AM

Quote: Originally Posted by skinhead

ahh right, i was under the impression that all your stock had been sent out as pre-orders. In that case, ill put payment down for one one night this week, cheers

We have about 75 of everything remaining. The website will start getting updated in terms of shipping information soon.