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Make Computers See with SimpleCV - The Open Source Framework for Vision - 0 views

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  • So after all that you are probably asking, “What is SimpleCV?” It is an open source computer vision framework that lowers the barriers to entry for people to learn, develop, and use it across the globe. Currently there are a few open source vision system libraries in existence, but the downside to these is you have to be quite the domain expert and knowledgeable with vision systems as well as know cryptic programming languages like C. Where SimpleCV is different, is it is “simple”. It has been designed with a web browser interface, which is familiar to Internet users everywhere. It will talk to your webcam (which most computers and smart phones have built in) automatically. It works cross platform (Windows, Mac, Linux, etc). It uses the programming language Python rather than C to greatly lower the learning curve of the software. It sacrifices some complexity for simplicity, which is needed for mass adoption of any type of new technology.
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An Open Source Personal Robot On The Horizon? - 1 views

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shared by Aasemoon =) on 28 Apr 10 - Cached
  • GetRobo has pointed out a new website by Francisco Paz, which focuses on his experience building an open source personal robot called Qbo.  From the few images on the site Qbo looks remarkably well made and quite similar to NEC’s PaPeRo, meaning it might be used to experiment with image processing, speech recognition, speech synthesis, and (assuming it has wheels) obstacle detection and SLAM.  He also mentions in his blog some of the open source software that’s out in the wild such as OpenCV, Festival, and Sphinx, which would allow you to do some of that.
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Announcing our new, free, open API | face.com - 0 views

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shared by Aasemoon =) on 06 May 10 - Cached
  • Today face.com is proud to announce the opening of our platform APIs! After scanning billions of photos and tagging over 50 million users through Photo Tagger and Photo Finder, we’re moving ahead with our goal of making face recognition approachable and available to all. In this open alpha stage, we’re letting any developer tap into our face detection and face recognition tech through simple REST API calls. Whether you’re looking to build a cool photo tagging application, create personalized e-cards or campaigns, or any other sci-fi idea that comes to mind, we’re here to serve. A friend of the company, world-famous programmer, developer and founder of Technorati David Sifry got an early look at our API.  In David’s own words: “I’ve been impressed with Face.com’s API, and their plan for working closely with developers to build great applications that incorporate face detection and face recognition. Open platforms like this one will enable the creation of exciting new applications that we’ve never seen before at scale.”
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robots.net - Willow Garage PR2 Robots Hit the Market - 0 views

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shared by Aasemoon =) on 16 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • When we first reported on the Willow Garage PR2 robot, it was just a prototype. Earlier this year, Willow Garage started their beta program, which gave eleven lucky organizations two year access to PR2 robots in exchange for furthering work on open source robotics software. Now we've received word from Willow Garage that the PR2 is officially for sale to anyone who wants it. This is not a toy or hobby robot, of course, so don't expect a small price tag. The full retail price is $400,000 per unit. However, if your organization can demonstrate a proven track record in developing open source software and making contributions to the robotics community, you can get a hefty $120,000 discount on your PR2. For more see our previous stories on Willow Garage and the PR2.
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Company Offers Free Robots for Open Source Developers | Gadget Lab | Wired.com - 0 views

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  • Gadget Lab Hardware News and Reviews Company Offers Free Robots for Open Source Developers By Priya Ganapati January 20, 2010  |  3:17 pm  |  Categories: R&D and Inventions Robotics company Willow Garage is giving 10 of its robots free to researchers in return for a promise that they will share their development efforts with the open-source community. “The hardware is designed to be a software developer’s dream with a lot of compute power inside and many of the annoying problems with general robotic platforms taken care of,” says Steve Cousins, CEO of Willow Garage. “We have created a platform that is going to accelerate the development of personal robotics.”
  • fishead ...*∞º˙ on 21 Jan 10
     
    Quick--get yours!
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Sensorless BLDC motor control using a Majority Function Part 1 of 2 | Your Electronics ... - 0 views

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shared by Aasemoon =) on 16 Aug 10 - Cached
  • Here is the agenda for today’s seminar. We will recall the principles of controlling a brushless DC motor. Secondly we will discuss the back EMF sensing method used in this sensorless technique. We will also cover the principles of digital filter and the so called majority function. Last section of this seminar discusses the motor start up sequence and the sensorless operation.
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Embedded OS - Java Approach | Your Electronics Open Source - 0 views

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shared by Aasemoon =) on 15 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • Usually developers consider Java as a programming language, but Java is a complete operating enviornment including some parts belong to OS. If you have experience of porting Java runtime to embedded system. You will find that RTOS is not a necessary requirement for porting Java.
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Embedded OS - Multi-Core OS | Your Electronics Open Source - 0 views

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shared by Aasemoon =) on 15 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • Most multiprocessing systems can be classified as either symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) or asymmetric multiprocessing (AMP). AMP involves the use of interprocessor communication to combine the efforts of multiple processors, each with its own local operating system and hardware resources. Also, AMP involves less OS overhead for each individual processor and a more traditional execution environment for applications. AMP seems like distributed system. The number of peripherals that are supported in today's multicore processors is quickly increasing. Symmetric-multiprocessing (SMP) software is expected to be quickly available to support these peripherals. Basically any OS can be ported to a SMP platform, but the developers must take care of following issues for SMP OS. - Handling of task priority or implicit synchronization - Spinlocks and synchronization - Synchronization between tasks sharing memory - Synchronization between tasks and ISRs sharing memory - Synchronization between ISRs sharing memory
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Mercury Releases OpenSAL - Open Source Version of Scientific Algorithm Library | Milita... - 0 views

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shared by Aasemoon =) on 17 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • CHELMSFORD, MA.  October 7, 2010  Mercury Computer Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: MRCY, www.mc.com), a trusted ISR subsystems provider, announced the availability of OpenSAL, an open source version of its award-winning Scientific Algorithm Library (SAL) for vector math acceleration. SAL is a high-throughput, low-latency signal processing library containing efficient algorithms with the fewest possible instructions and computing resources. OpenSAL provides a robust API, C code reference design and documentation for over 400 SAL math functions.
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RoweBots Releases Ultra-Tiny Embedded-Linux(tm) RTOS for Renesas Technology's SH-2A Mic... - 0 views

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shared by Aasemoon =) on 22 Feb 10 - No Cached
  • RoweBots Research, Inc., a supplier of tiny embedded POSIX RTOS products, today announced the launch and release of UnisonTM Version 5 and the open-source version of Unison Version 4. These two ultra-tiny embedded-Linux and POSIX compatible RTOSs open Renesas Technology Corp.’s SH-2A Microcontroller (MCU) family to Linux and POSIX compatible development for the first time.
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Five Tips for Improving IntelliJ IDEA Performance | geek listed - 0 views

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  • Aasemoon =) on 02 Jan 10
     
    Since I totally luv IDEA...... "We use JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA Java IDE and love its features, functionality, and price point. Dealing with its performance is another matter, however. When developing Seam 2.x applications, IDEA can just crawl - and this is when sticking to just one project or SVN branch at a time. Some of the biggest performance hits our team has noticed are: 1. File indexing on IDEA startup 2. Long code completion times when editing XHTML/JSF files 3. Pauses when switching from one Java or XHTML file to another 4. Calls to Ant targets can drag on forever for no apparent reason while others time they are tidy and fast Here is a collection of ideas on how to improve the performance of IDEA; note that not all of these will be applicable to your environment or application. For example, we wouldn't consider turning off local history options as this is invaluable. 1. If you're not using Subversion or other version control system, turn off synchronized files. This can be disabled from the Settings -> General, and disabling "Synchronize Files on Frame Activation". 2. Revert to IDEA's original visual interface. Browse to Settings -> Appearance and select the "IDEA 4.5 Default" theme. 3. Decrease the size of local history of code changes. Even if you find this feature invaluable, you can still improve performance of IDEA by reducing the number of days of local history IDEA will store. By default this option is set to three days! 4. Disable unused plugins. You mean you're not developing GWT apps and you're not working with JetGroovy? Great, then why not disable some of those plugins? 5. Increase the IDEA Java VM heap size. I can attest to this offering much improved performance; if you can spare the memory, follow these directions: 1. locate your Program Files/JetBrains/IDEA x.x/bin directory 2. open idea.exe.vmoptions 3. modify Xms, Xmx, and XX:MaxPermSize settings as needed"
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YouTube - Dexter: Morning Routine - 1 views

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  • Aasemoon =) on 09 Jan 10
     
    Isn't the Dexter opening just brilliant? =D
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InfoQ: Brussels approves $7.4bn Oracle-Sun deal, Oracle to Outline Strategy Next Week - 0 views

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  • The European Union has today formally approved Oracle's takeover of Sun Microsystems. The EU has been investigating the merger since September 2009 under EU Merger Regulation, expressing concern that Oracle may try and kill MySQL, a move that it felt could potentially have a detrimental impact on competition in the database market. Launching her investigation, outgoing Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes stated: The Commission has to examine very carefully the effects on competition in Europe when the world's leading proprietary database company proposes to take over the world's leading open source database company. In particular, the Commission has an obligation to ensure that customers would not face reduced choice or higher prices as a result of this takeover. Databases are a key element of company IT systems. In the current economic context, all companies are looking for cost-effective IT solutions, and systems based on open-source software are increasingly emerging as viable alternatives to proprietary solutions. The Commission has to ensure that such alternatives would continue to be available.
  • Aasemoon =) on 21 Jan 10
     
    Slightly hard to believe for me....
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IEEE Spectrum: Scoop: KUKA's youBot Mobile Manipulator Unveiled - 0 views

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  • Kurt Laitner on 17 Jun 10
     
    You've probly seen this on IEEE, but just in case you missed it..
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Wired Declares The Web Is Dead-Don't Pull Out The Coffin Just Yet - 1 views

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shared by Aasemoon =) on 17 Aug 10 - Cached
  • Over the past few years, one of the most important shifts in the digital world has been the move from the wide-open Web to semiclosed platforms that use the Internet for transport but not the browser for display. It’s driven primarily by the rise of the iPhone model of mobile computing, and it’s a world Google can’t crawl, one where HTML doesn’t rule. And it’s the world that consumers are increasingly choosing, not because they’re rejecting the idea of the Web but because these dedicated platforms often just work better or fit better into their lives (the screen comes to them, they don’t have to go to the screen).
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DIY Drones - 0 views

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shared by Aasemoon =) on 23 Oct 10 - Cached
  • This is a site for all things about amateur Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). Use the tabs and drop-down menus above to navigate the site. These are our Arduino-based open source autopilot projects: * ArduPilot, a low-cost autopilot system for planes. * ArduCopter, a fully-autonomous quadcopter system (heli autopilot coming soon). * BlimpDuino, an autonomous blimp with both infrared and ultrasonic guidance.
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Care-O-bot Research - 0 views

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  • The Care-O-bot® research initiative aims at making Care-O-bot® 3 available as high-tech research platform. The main objectives to reach this goal are to provide a common open source repository for the hardware platform provide simulation models of hardware components provide remote access to the Care-O-bot® 3 hardware platform
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IEEE Spectrum: Breakthrough in Creating a Band Gap for Graphene Promises Huge Potential... - 0 views

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  • Ever since graphene was first produced in a lab at the University of Manchester in 2004, researchers around the world have been fascinated with its potential in electronics applications. Graphene possessed all the benefits of carbon nanotubes (CNTs), namely its charged-carrier mobility, but it didn’t have any of the down sides, such as CNTs’ need for different processing techniques than silicon and the intrinsic difficulty of creating interconnects for CNTs. But all was not easy for applying graphene to electronics applications. One of the fundamental problems for graphene was its lack of a band gap, which left it with a very low on-off ratio measured at about 10 as compared to in the 100s for silicon. Now this fundamental hurdle has been overcome. Based on research led by Phaedon Avouris at IBM’s IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York, IBM is reporting that they have created a significant band gap in graphene.
  • Aasemoon =) on 24 Feb 10
     
    VERY interesting...
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Flare | Data Visualization for the Web - 1 views

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  • Flare is an ActionScript library for creating visualizations that run in the Adobe Flash Player. From basic charts and graphs to complex interactive graphics, the toolkit supports data management, visual encoding, animation, and interaction techniques. Even better, flare features a modular design that lets developers create customized visualization techniques without having to reinvent the wheel. View the demos and sample applications to see a few of the visualizations that flare makes it easy to build. To begin making your own visualizations, download flare and work through the tutorial. You should also get familiar with the API documentation. Need more help? Visit the help forum (you'll need a SourceForge login to post). Flare is open-source software released under a BSD license, meaning it can be freely deployed and modified (and even sold for $$). Flare's design was adapted from its predecessor prefuse, a visualization toolkit for Java
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ScalaModules: a DSL for bringing OSGi to Scala | Lambda the Ultimate - 0 views

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  • ScalaModules is an open source project aimed at providing fluent support for OSGi to Scala developers. It takes advantage of Scala's infix operator notation, higher order functions, and implicit conversions. ScalaModules transparently uses the Scala compiler to wrap an OSGi BundleContext with its own RichBundleContext model. This general technique is not unusual for creating DSLs in mainstream languages. Sean McDirmid uses similar tricks for his C# Bling library for WPF, except that Bling must overcome the lack of C# offering comparable extensions to Scala.
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