Tutorials

Listed below are tutorials on various topics that may be of interest to users of Player. More...

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Listed below are tutorials on various topics that may be of interest to users of Player.

The goal of these documents is to provide the user with concise explanations (with examples, wherever possible) of important concepts and common tasks.

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Modules
	Interfaces, drivers, and devices
	Fundamental concepts in Player.
	Migrating from Player 1.6 to Player 2.0
	Including a guide to updating your drivers.
	Using cameras and blobfinders
	Configuring and accessing cameras.
	Using Player and Automake
	A brief overview of how Automake works.
	Using Player and CMake
	A brief overview of how CMake works.
	Cross-compiling
	How to build Player for embedded systems.
	Command line arguments
	Parsing command-line arguments.
	Data logging
	Logging sensor data to files and playing it back.
	Writing configuration files
	Config files.
	Adding a new interface
	How to add an interface for a new kind of device.
	Writing a Player driver
	How to write, compile, and load plugin driver.
	Manipulating maps
	Map-handling.