Robot App™ Description
The LEGO Street View Car app is controlled manually using a PSPNx sensor to receive commands from any standard PSP controller.
The PSPNx sensor has the advantage of being simple to program against and supports both analog joystick input for steering and boolean button presses to activate the camera. Press the triangle button on the PSP controller to capture an image and log the GPS coordinates.
Every time an image is captured the current latitude and longitude are recorded from the dGPS. The NXT creates a KML format file in the flash filesystem which is then uploaded from the NXT to a PC. Opening the KML file in Google Earth shows the path that the car drove, and also has placemarks for every picture you took along the way. Click on the placemark to see the picture.
For each GPS coordinate I create a KML Placemark entry that embeds descriptive HTML code using the CDATA tag. The image link in the HTML refers to the last image captured on disk. The 808 camera starts with the filename EKEN0001.jpg for the first picture captured. The second picture captured is EKEN0002.jpg, and so forth.
Developer: Mark C
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