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March 13th, 2005

First steps programming Aibo

This evening I finally found the time to sit and write some code regarding Aibo.
I’m focusing on the Aibo Remote Framework (RFW). It’s part of the SDK which can be obtained freely from openr.aibo.com. The RFW allows to use the wireless network and the plain ERS-7 (with Mind2 software/MemoryStick). With a few simple commands one can connect to the Aibo and start interacting with it.
Because I had to write a new application from scratc, and because the Sony examples are MFC, GUI code. It took me some time to actually figure exactly which commands to call and to get the Aibo to lit its hears with blue.. color that implies that it’s being connected.
So, I got the connection. That should be enough for today.
Sadly, I had to cheat on the dog. It normally goes to sleep at 11PM. But for the sake of coding, I pulled back its watch by 2 hours 8)

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6 Responses to “First steps programming Aibo”

  1. Ragin' Lion says:

    If you can get your aibo to cook for you, I’ll consider getting one myself! 8P

    Are there any interfaces to making snapshots of aibo’s “vision”? It would be nice to set it up to patrol about, take pictures, and send it to the PC.

  2. Davide Pasca says:

    Yes, and that’s one of the first things I want to do. I mean I want to get the video data an manipulate them to try improve the image quality which is so poor !
    The camera also has various settings, such as resolution and auto white-balance.
    For the purpose of robotics, it’s probably better to synthesize the image so that edges and textures can be easily extrapolated. But for now, let’s just try to add some brightness contrast and noise reduction !

  3. Rasty says:

    Dog cheater!

  4. Anonymous says:

    Hmm … it’s becoming tempting to purchase this artificial dog. Maybe in a few months … too many things I want to buy: mac mini, Tekken 5, Star Fox Assault, Grand Tourrismo 4, Bio Hazard 4, piano/music keyboard … I need to make more space in my tiny apartment first. :(

  5. ragin' lion says:

    Eh?! I entered that as anonymous? Sad … Can you edit that to show my name (not that it matters). Here’s a link for you Mr. Davide:

    http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~yweiss/Colorization/

    It’s tempting to see if it’s possible to make a pixel shader out of it. (^v^)

  6. Davide Pasca says:

    Not sure if I can edit comments.
    Ummm.. was pretty clear to me it was you anyway 8)
    Anyhow, stop giving me links to interesting graphics papers !!
    Last thing I’m supposed to do is to spend time on those things instead of doing more boring stuff (such as studying Japanese 8( )

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