Getting Started with Robotics Samples and Tutorials

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As part of Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio we provide an extensive list of samples and tutorials that show how to get starting writing robotics applications.

  • Setting Up Your Hardware: Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio (RDS) can be used with a variety of robot platforms. Follow the instructions for setting up your hardware and its means of communication to your PC running Windows XP or Windows Vista. The following information may be helpful in helping set up for the robots supported by the tutorials included in this technical preview.

  • Basic Robotics Tutorials: The basic robotics tutorials help the user get started writing the very first service for a robot.  The tutorials guide the user from getting input from a single sensor, to controlling an actuator, and to being able to write a "drive-by-wire" application where the robot can be moved around.

  • VPL Hands On Labs: These tutorials are aimed at new users and complement the VPL versions of the Basic Robotics Tutorials.

  • Advanced Robotics Tutorials: These tutorials demonstrate more advanced topics ranging from autonomous navigation to how to build specific support for a robot.

  • LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT samples and tutorials: provide a variety of services targeting the LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT platform especially designed for use with VPL.

  • Technology Samples: Broad set of samples that demonstrate how to use location technologies, speech technologies, vision technologies, and more with Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio.

 

 

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