well some years ago when i first learned about microcontrollers i did a quad rotor, trashy design, it was kite shape frame that used automotive break line(nice,light malleable but sturdy) sandwiched between pcb's and standoffs,. hot glue for impact buffers, and cardboard walls to hide guts.
i got as far as running microcontroller off a futaba remote, it was able to take off and land, hard to balance and control thou, never made it off "leash" tether, ESCs had relay cutoffs, linked to ir receiver (coded so i could shoot it down with tv remote(independent hardware), hardware was PIC2550(hdw ctrl) also setup with ultrasound sensor under each BLDC with servo, buttons & 232 input(for bluetooth firefly), futaba receiver, n som flashies , plus 4620 addition microcontroller dedicated to navigation & gps, , never got to coding though plan at the time was a*
with inventor & eagle i can now print a way better design , and since im doing that i want to modify body to better design , more flashies/servos and devices, plus i want to switch to gsm comm, AND have you guys seen the new pocket pc's, perfect cos now i can code on pc(replace 4620) , with lots of process power, usb to PIC(hdw ctrl), bluetooth for comm and android plugs, plus better hdw pcb, factory printed , ie not my slopy wire wrap, and POCKET PROJECTORS!!?
this has lead me to c# where i have gotten in to usb cam(s),usb xbox game controller, figured out, using aforge.video and libusbdotnet. AND attempting similar to "motioninjoy" for move, i am almost fin there, creating a complete socket, but still need to learn to say bluetooth.connect() or bluetooth.listen() ...ect... and barly flying by seat of my pants with all these methods contstructors classes namespace BLAH
the intent is to do this for my robo(using instead dual gen usb cam), position mapping and locating:
plus some of this with the wand:
plus if i had projectors and cams it would be fun to addin a r2d2 projector like this(but may not) :
From there, i would like to get in to neural nets and genetic algorithms and see what i can do from there, for smoother hardware and smarter responses and motion. 3d object recognition, path finding and the like,.. plus again with projector it would be cool to have a
Photopolymerization 3d printer since all i would need is table side(zaxis), and this style produces more complex prints and would be easier to do larger ones aswell (other than 10x10 inch)
for now:
I dont really wnt to stray from vb since i have found all these plugins for it,, ie autodesk, excel, ect.. and my ultimate goal is to improve(extend) what i can do with a cpu and code.
also i feel foolish for the million questions, i just found a whole graphics tab which has 3d viewer called scene.fbx(under add new item, vb2013) , so ima see if i can use that.. i figure all this will take a year or two which will be a good filler while i complete all my other half fin projects, plus allow for me to save up for components.
Also I am recalling why I avoided c++, the transition from c to c# wasnt that big, few extra "."s , a curve about objects(fluked), i am able to at least stitch from examples,
i am getting scared already , there are alot more semicolons and these "^" are those pointers, i remember my head is still spinning frm my last discussion re them when i was introduced. and what is this "->". already off the hop i am having problem with just calling a 2nd form inside form , also it seems according to example that they want me to do all my code in source.cpp file?
I have just invested in OOP for dummies, maybe i should get c++ dummies too?
and i think that is what things are boiling down to, c++ seems to be more wide spread for all this stuff despite its increased complexity, i guess all thats left is , is it worth going to c++?