From: Aaron Patterson <aaron@...>
Date: 2008-03-14T14:58:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Robot Help (web cam & serial)

On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 11:22:47AM +0900, Scott Preston wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I have been a Java Robot guy for some time (Author Definitive Guide to
> Building Java Robots by Apress) but want to do some stuff with Ruby but I am
> limited by two things: web cam capture and serial communication and I was
> hoping to avoid C.
> 
> Are there any gems or scripts out there to help me out? I've Googled but
> can't find anything...

I use ruby-serialport:

  http://rubyforge.org/projects/ruby-serialport/

For webcam capture, I've been shelling out to mencoder.  I would like to
see an all ruby solution though!

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Aaron Patterson
http://tenderlovemaking.com/