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Non Existent Projects?

After months and days of searching I cant find any websites that are developing a hobby based phased array soultion for robots or whatever, so I am very very tempted to get to work on this straight away when I move in, rather than spending time on my robot like I had planned.  Also, another [...]

T610 LCD Info

Just for future reference Ive found some sites with a T610 LCD pinout and some code and stuff. Links:

Forum Discussing the T610 LCD

Pin Out from the manufacturer
Another Big forum discussion

Quick Zbot IR note

I could mount the IR and the IR rx on the top and bottom of the boards, then I wouldnt have to worry about them interfering with each other!  Cant believe I didnt think of that before! Might not fit with the wiskers on though?
Also, I could add some transistors to make the power output [...]

Finished Rewriting Routines

I have finished rewriting all the subroutines now and I have manage to increase the speed even more. When rewriting, I got rid of any grossly underperforming code and now at 100mm/h it runs through in just under a second.
But once again, the errors are still plaguing the system. At this rainfall rate [...]

Sound Libraries for Qt

Just been looking around for some open source sound libraries to work in Qt, since Qt has no native support for low(ish) level access.

http://www.libsdl.org/  - Looks quite complicated
http://www.portaudio.com/trac/wiki/TutorialDir/TutorialStart - Again looks quite complicated
http://www.music.mcgill.ca/~gary/rtaudio/ - Looks the best to me.  Object oriented, simple, I’ll try this first.

Slight error in Multilateration Routines

After a knock in the right direction from Kevin, I found a slight error in the Multilateration routines.  When simplifying U, we chose points on the edge of the tank to solve for.  The point which is at the top right of the tank was wrong.  I was solving for x^2+y^2 = 1.  I should [...]

Facial Recognition and NFX Software

I would like to have a play with facial recognition algorithms, so I had a quick sgeggy on the net to see what I could find.  I found quite a few:

Face Recognition Workshop 1 and 2

Eigeface tutorial in Matlab
Face Detection in c# (CodeProject)
Motion Detection in c# (CodeProject)
Video Survelliance in c# (CodeProject)

Would be great if I [...]

Final output from the Disdrometer test

Well here it is. A good couple of months worth of work summed up in a single image. Says a lot doesnt it…

Source of the final errors

I have confirmed that the source of the errors in the newest program is definatly because there is a chance that a random combination of pulses could produce a valid output. So I think the only way to mitigate this is to also check the value and add that to the error.
Plus there are [...]

Chosen a Language, Subset and IDE

I think I have finally chosen all the things I need to get cracking with the real software. No more of this nancy Matlab.
Ive chosen C++, mainly because it will be more beneficial to me in the future.  Companies really need you to know c++, and I can learn C# on top of that if [...]