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The Microsoft^(r) Robotics Developer Studio 2008 R2 (Microsoft RDS) is a Windows^(r)-based environment for academic, hobbyist, and commercial developers to easily create robotics applications across a wide variety of hardware.

Microsoft RDS includes a lightweight asynchronous services-oriented runtime, a set of visual authoring and simulation tools, as well as templates, tutorials, and sample code to help you get started.

Product Information - To understand more about the benefits of Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio, start here with background on the product. View Product Features.

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Using fischertechnik with Microsoft Robotics Development Studio - This tutorial should give you a basic understanding  of how the fischertechnik components in Microsoft Robotics Studio can be used. However this is not a general Introduction to the Visual Programming Language (VPL) and Robotics Studio. For such information and more tutorials please visit the links you’ll find on the fischertechnik page. Download Tutorial Now

 The following are three examples which you can work through,

Example 1 - Robot with Obstacle Detection - This is an example for the "Robot with Obstacle Detection" from fischertechnik Robo Mobile Kit. It makes a robot driving and when a button is pressed the robot changes its direction. Download file Now

Example 2 - Temperature Sensor - This simple example requires a temperature sensor. It's originally designed for the Temperature Control in fischertechnik Robo Starter Kit. When the temperature reaches a defined value a motor turns on. You might need to adjust the values. To get them you can use the test programme or fischertechnik Robo Pro Software.  Download File Now

Example 3 Sliding Door  -  MS Robotics example for programming the sliding door (Robo Starter).Download File Now.