Guard Dog Robot Project

http://eia.udg.es/~qsalvi/recerca.html

http://eia.udg.es/~qsalvi/StereoHead.avi

http://danielwedge.com/fmatrix/

I added the RoboVisionX GUI to the github repo you can view it here

http://github.com/AmmarkoV/RoboVision/tree/master/RoboVisionX/

or download it using the zipball feature xD

Also Nice Blog , although not updated for several years
also my stuff that I don’t understand yet list is bigger ;p

http://people.csail.mit.edu/albert/ladypack/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page

I had a very interesting conversation with my brother last night about evolution and technology and so I remembered about these videos ..

The truth is that computers and robots cannot be regarded as beeing alive as they are creations of humans and at best can be programmed to act in a deterministic way .. On the other hand humans are creations of smaller organisms that where in turn created by chemicals interacting with each other in a deterministic way
It seems to me that these chemicals interacting have in fact created computers and robots with humans as an intermediate step..

So in case that computers develop the skills to self replicate while also having a basic set of survival skills they could also be regarded as “alive”

The secret life of chaos ( 6 parts )

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing#Pattern_formation_and_mathematical_biology

Speech about “logical viruses”

Self replicating 3d printer
http://reprap.org/wiki/Main_Page

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p86BPM1GV8M

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_singularity

You can now peek inside various parts of RoboVision , most of the things on the repo are binaries but I will start filling out the gaps over time

http://github.com/AmmarkoV/RoboVision

I implemented a basic CLI front end (RoboVisionCLI) for guarddog ( in order to have it run as a daemon while guarddog boots )
Next things to do is clean up a little and rewrite RoboVisionX which is the wxWidgets GUI userfriendly front end..

The centralized design ( RoboKernel ) I have created works very well !

http://tinyurl.com/guarddogfeed

B2Evolution->Twitter->Facebook syndication should be cool xD

This is a project map that I compiled just now
Most of the Squares are in working condition but have not been fully implemented but I believe that they are very well divided..

Also I decided to continue this Blog in english as there are not many Greeks that visit it Hopefully instead of “attracting” 0.0001% of 10000000 greeks ( which is 100 people ) I will atract 0.0001% from all the planet ( which is 500000 people , some serious traffic , hope google does its magic ;P )

Third note is that VideoInput library ( used for GuardDog ) now provides decoding for non-RGB24 formats .. I want to make it as good as possible because V4L2 is missing a user-space library that does all the conversions in a centralized fashion..!

Get it here -> http://github.com/AmmarkoV/VideoInput
for now its RGB24 / YUYV compatible