Get prep'ed for Mashed08

I will be showing the Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio at Mashed08 this weekend.

If you are also going to be there and fancy playing with robot programming and simulation building there are some bits you can set up on your machine in advanced.

First, get Visual C# Express 2008 (or Std, Pro etc etc)

Then get the Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio 2008 CTP. You'll note that there is also the latest release you can download (v1.5 - free for non-commercial use ). These two versions do co-exist. There is a lot more free stuff around for V1.5 at the moment so having both may give you some extra options - such as the Volts-IQ Vision SDK 1.6 (which provides the infamous Face detector service).

Now you're ready to rumble. There will be some other goodies to download later - but I'm still working on them :-)