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Jython 2.5.2 vs 2.7.0

Okay, we've been going back and forth on this.
Functionality wise, 2.7.0 has json serialization in it (a good thing) , but something is wonky with some encoding..

I would prefer to use 2.7.0 vs 2.5.2 but I don't know all the encoding issues people have been suffering, or the details.  My own experience is that it's killing my unit tests, which is why we are back to 2.5.2 at the moment.

Does anyone know any details ?  Kwatters said he tried using jvm parameters to fix 2.7.0 encoding.  Do we know what is going wrong ?

WebGui - new functionality

Hi All,

The WebGui has some new functionality.  Its basic positioning, hiding, and showing which can be accessed through the WebGui service.  All functionality of any Service can be accessed through Python.  

First download the myrobotlab.jar from the "latest" link to a new directory.

Object tracking and the basic Python scripts

Hello all,

I'm working through object tracking and keep encountering a couple of issues.   I am experienced in several programming languages, Arduinos, and animatronics and have gotten this to work before using OpenCV and Processing, but now I have a nearly complete InMoov and feel it is important to learn MRL from the basics so I know how it all works.    

But I'm having some trouble and there are a few too many moving pieces for me to get a complete picture of what is happening.   

ino 28

These are the errors when compiling ino 28 on the arduino uno/mega:

Help needed

As I have no experience with dc motors with more than 2 wires, I was wondering if someone could give me some support. This is the motor I have: http://robokitsworld.com/documentation/RMCS220x_DCServo_Driver.pdf

Problem is that it turns only in one direction. GND and VCC is connected to a 12V 5A Source. Pulse Step + and Pulse Step - are conected to Pin 5 and 6 of the Arduino, GND is connected to the Arduino as well. Direction + and Direction - are not connected. I tried connecting Direction - to GND but it makes no difference. This is the script I am using for testing:

I would like to switch ProgramAB robots personalities

This is the script I’m running in the MRL python window. I have tried modifying it in many ways with ‘ghostchat’ to use my AIML file but it will only run as is.  I think Kevin wrote it. It works for alice2 bot and opens the web GUI successfully.  It works fine but I want to use my own to add personality to my inMoov.

Adafruit16CServoDriver

Hi

I'm trying to use the Adafruit16CServiceDriver. I'm sure it's broken,but thats OK. I can spend some time to make it worky. I have downloaded the library for the driver and used MRLComm and the commented code from Adafruit16CServoDriver to make an arduino sketch that I think will work for my first experiments. But when I read the examples, and I try the code it looks like the implementation of attach differs from what I expected. Nomally I would do something like this to attach a servo.