Computer Vision & Robotics

This Thursday, Robotics guru Scott Preston will show us how to engineer and program mobile robots with web cameras for vision and microcontrollers for communicating with onboard sensors, all from an Ubuntu PC.

The meeting will be held in Dreese Labs room 113 at 7:00.

Scott Preston is a member of the Java Community Process, Central Ohio Java Users Group, Columbus Ruby Brigade and founder of The Columbus Robotics Society. He wrote his first book The Definitive Guide to Building Java Robots, by Apress in 2005, and Co-Authored, Real-World- Ajax by SYS-CON Media in 2006. Scott has given talks about robotics all over Ohio including CodeMash 2008/2009, and Ohio Linux 2008.