We have the technology.
Almost done with our semester project in robotics. The team:
The technology:
Yeah I know. 1982 called and wants their robot back. But at any rate, it is a pretty neat project, sorts objects by height and weight, then stacks them on a pallet and goes 2 levels high. I am the sole coder, Nirav is the documentation manager, and John and Hussein do everything electrical and mechanical.
Well I installed SLED today to give it a shot, and right off the bat my PRISM54 card won’t work complaining about missing firmware. Being that my only internet connection is wireless, this presents a problem updating it.
sudo apt-get install `apt-cache search gstreamer0.10 | awk ‘/^gstreamer*/ {printf “%s “, $1}’`
Jul 19
This guy hits the nail on the head for why it is a bad idea to use Microsoft Word for documents. Read it here.
Jul 13
Package: gpac <– done
Package: ffmpeg2theora <– done
Package: gnusound <– waiting on upstream
Package: linphone <– done
Package: lynkeos.app
Package: moc
Package: motion <– done
Package: opencv
Package: smilutils
Package: vlc <– done.
The process was fairly easy, but I ran into one or two little things to work around:
When using an old nvidia card for TV-out: use nvidia-glx-legacy, not nvidia-glx. This look me all day, dmesg kept saying there was a version mismatch, and there was. Legacy package was required.
When using an old nvidia card for TV-out: In the freevo local_conf.py file, at the end, I added:
OSD_SDL_EXEC_AFTER_STARTUP = 'nvtv -t -r 800,600 -s Normal -S NTSC'
Also I downloaded the binary from the website, and installed all the prereqs from the dapper repositories except mmedia, which didn’t exist. I downloaded it from it’s website, ran the setup and boom good to go.
I currently have an IPOD shuffle, but I really wish Apple would support the Ogg Vorbis format. I have a rather sizable CD collection, and I would rather not use MP3 to encode them (I do enjoy MP3 VBR –preset-standard) but I like the idea of an open format more because that way in the future I can use them 100% free of patented technology. So hurry up apple so I can buy another ipod.
Well after 10 losses on the season, our softball team picked up our first W. There are 2 games left 
