Microsoft Robotics Studio Tutorial
Some people have been asking how to operate the Microsoft Robotics Studio. This Coding4Fun article, by Brian Peek, will walk you through how to use it. From the article:
"In this article, Brian Peek will demonstrate how to use Microsoft Robotics Studio to control the Lego Mindstorms NXT kit. A simple remote-controlled robot will be built and controlled using C# and the MSRS Visual Programming Language (VPL)."
http://blogs.msdn.com/coding4fun/archive/2007/07/16/3902344.aspx
There is also a Wii-type NXT remote tutorial one Coding4Fun.
Good luck with the Microsoft Robotics Studio!
Richard
"In this article, Brian Peek will demonstrate how to use Microsoft Robotics Studio to control the Lego Mindstorms NXT kit. A simple remote-controlled robot will be built and controlled using C# and the MSRS Visual Programming Language (VPL)."
http://blogs.msdn.com/coding4fun/archive/2007/07/16/3902344.aspx
There is also a Wii-type NXT remote tutorial one Coding4Fun.
Good luck with the Microsoft Robotics Studio!
Richard
Comments
When I tried the 1.0 version in last winter, I liked the Service-Oriented concept (that abstracts from the actual robot platform implementation). However, I experienced the concrete implementation of the framework cryptic and unintuitive, very poorly documented and difficult to use.
Even for very simple tasks like creating a simple service for, say, driving a motor and reading a sensor, the effort was tremendeous and it was almost impossible to figure out how to actually do it (the advice "just dig through the source code of an existing service and try to figure out how to do it" from the newsgroup was not very helpful, was it?). I also didn't like the constraint that MSRS services are only remote clients on the PC (which contradicts my attitude towards real (i.e. autonomous) robots).
Yet, there may have been improvements since (we all know that there have been times when you'd better wait for version 2 or 3 of Microsoft products, haven't they?), and I didn't use the visual language (which was not fully available then).
So if you use it: I'd be grateful for comments and feedback here.
Getting Started with VPL and MS Robotics Studio
The platform I'm focusing on is Mindstorms/RCX
tony