Confused Life - Reloaded

Riding in Adelaide especially during night can be a hazardous activity. You have to share the road with cars and pedestrians, staying sa...

Recently I obtained a Sense Energy monitor via US from Margaret of BitKnitting . She is doing a very interesting neighbourhood energy effi...

After a few boards I got sick of soldering 0603 components using a soldering iron and started looking into using solder paste and hot air. ...

All the work with stereo vision and kinect hackery is of not much use without obstacles to sense and avoid. Hence the beagleboard is now m...

I have recently acquired some more hardware - a Tincan tools Trainer for xM and a Pandaboard . Sometimes I feel embedded should start with ...

My shiny new BeagleBoard-xM arrived a few days ago. I have been too snowed in with OSGi to spare it some time. The test image on the supplie...

It was been a great December and January. We have seen a lot of Tasmania, gone for a few great walks - 5 hour Freycinet loop and few hours u...

People have hooked up the Kinect to a few embedded platforms - Intel Atom and Gumstix Overo have come up. It was time for the other darlin...

I broke my old Prolink Modem by walking around while it was plugged in and twisting the USB plug. I got a newer 7.2MB capable modem from D...

A while back I made my BeagleBoard dual-USB stereo camera . Gstreamer is set to capture single frames in this mode and no video synchroniza...

I seem to have sprouted an impromptu holiday to Fiji . So tonight ended up a rush in completing my papers for IGARSS 2010 in Hawaii. Time h...

Last night I had a bit of a stroll along the Amazon EC2 alley. Started up a Lucid instance and checked out orfeo toolbox into it for build...

So I have had a minor set-back with the el-cheapo motors on the quadcopter. No surprises there. Time to chin-up and get better motors and st...

I have the ambitious aim of allowing my Quadcopter to see in stereo. So recent tests are being conducted of a suitability of on board stereo...

After a bit of fiddling with opkg - opencv samples were installed. The plan is to make an office behaviour analysis system with a hallway ca...

Adelaide had a very small tremor on Friday and the "scientists" are using statistics to say a stronger one is on the way . Well th...

Today at hackerspace we got carried away a bit with helicopters. There were attempts to even get a crate to fly. Instead of flying the crate...

The HawkBoard costs about 1/2 the price of a BeagleBoard, only on special though. So I killed 2 birds with 1 stone and got 2 of them from Sp...

The openembedded huge bitbakes were running uncomfortably slow in the virtual machine. So I decided to install linux on USB and take it fro...