October 14, 2009
Coming soon!! We shoot the whole build but it did not turn out the way we wanted, so I have ordered another touch screen kit and I will be posting it here as soon as It gets here.
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Adding a touch screen to a LCD is pretty straight forward and fairy inexpensive. There are a few different places to get the touch screen kit, we got ours from ebay for around 80 bucks + shipping. Dealextreme.com has a small selection of smaller touch screen kit perfect for netbooks, because they come with a controller made to connect internally instead of external usb. When buying a kit to make sure it comes with the matching controller to avoid any head aches.
When it comes to desktop virtualization Matt and I think very differently. While I agree that VMware’s ESX and (free) ESXi solutions are killer, I can’t seem to justify the price of target=”_blank”>VMware Workstation when Sun’s Virtual Box is free, open source, full featured, super speedy and rock solid. Matt doesn’t agree.
Matt wouldn’t agree with my assessment, but he doesn’t write the show notes so I’ll just go ahead and link to this totally unbiased comparison.
February 1, 2009
I found this really interesting video about the history of the internet and thought I should share.
December 31, 2008
Adding laser range finding to the web missile software would make is so the web user could determine if a target is in range of the missile launcher. The laser range finding software does work but it is a slightly changeling getting it work with current hardware because of the age of the software. It’s really more of a proof of concept than a real tool. The theory behind it, is that distance of the laser can be determined by counting the number of pixels from the center of the CCD to the point lasers reflects on the CDD, that count plus the distance between the laser and the camera gives us the side of the triangle. Then using some simple trigonometry you can find the base of the triangle which is the distance that the object is from the laser.
The problem is the size of the dot on the CCD is not taken into account, so this theory only works for objects in a certain range. That range depends on the distance between the laser and camera. The missile launcher has a short range so the new idea is using two cameras for the laser range finding, one for the missile launchers short range needs and one for long range playing with the cat. Then you can get the best of both worlds the new concept.
There is a lot more on laser range finding to come.