Happy Boxing Day. ‘Shorts’ or ‘Asides’ or what I’ll call a ‘dev blog’ has been added to the sidebar instead of appearing in the main post section. Posters: just tag your post with the ‘Shorts’ category and it will go here. Keep it short!
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Makefile Madness
OK–
I’ve just completely redone the way the team gets its code to the memory sticks. It’s heavily influenced from the open-source rUNSWift code, who know OPEN-R and Makefiles way better than I. The code is insanely modular which will allow our team to easily port among various platforms, code, and computer configurations.
We now use rsync to more efficiently copy files over, and use Makefiles instead of shell scripts. Moreover, I’ve added a lot more compiling flags to make our analysis of bad code easier.
This takes us a significant step closer to python integration.
Winter Dev-Day One
The hectic days of exams are over and the winter has begun. I am home now and ready for a big push in developing for Northern Bites (Trademark forthcoming).
My goals for developing over the break are two-fold: creating a Python layer for the majority of the code-base, and really getting started with finer ball control.
I’ve snuck (or was given full permission) an Aibo home and have gotten the wireless to work on my home network. A two-thousand dollar robot is a great excuse to buy a forty-dollar wireless router.
The good news is the wireless is pretty fast: aiboConnect was able to maintain a fast framerate sending over the non-compressed images. However, the thresholded configuration from the lab is horrible in my low-lit basement. This won’t matter with great new vision system Yi’s implemented this fall (details later), but I may still need some basic hand-done thresholding for aiboConnect’s sake. Or maybe I’ll figure out how to compress the new vision system the same way the old one does (bytes and chars and ints-bleh).
Regardless, I’m going to take a few days off from active development and focus on drafting some research guides for the independent study dudes. Their only task this winter is to catch up to speed on their various areas of research. Dudes: I’ll be sending them out soon.
WP 2.0 RC3
Just upgraded to the beta WordPress 2.0 RC3 on my laptop. It went fairly easily with some hacks. Will hold off on upgrading this site until WordPress hits 2.0 fully and K2–the ub3r WordPress template this site uses– supports it. Looks like 2.0 will be official very soon….
Live Archives
I’ve updated the Archives page with a really cool plug-in called Extended Live Archives. It allows for quick, thorough searches of all the posts in the blog without having to refresh the page. The content of this blog is meager now–but later, it could prove quite useful.
Windows Crash
There’s been a report that this website has crashed a windows box when viewing with internet explorer. If this happens–we are very sorry–please leave a comment here or email us:
robocup AT bowdoin DOT edu
We haven’t been able to reproduce the error with numerous Windows boxes.
Site Address
Stabilized…
The site is rather stable–and that’s where I’ll leave it until exams and papers are done.
To come:
-New, Flashy Header
-Updated Del.icio.us northern_bites tags.
-Media! Pictures! Movies!
-Much better protected section (probably a blog for the team’s own usage).
-CSS Style-switcher on the fly: Vader Theme access.
-Loads more sweet blogging from the Northern Bites team.
Any suggestions about the features/layout of the site, or reports that things are broken: Contact Us.
Subversion in the Lab
Team: Guide to using Subversion in the lab is here (protected). Let me know how to make it more effective.
UPDATED: Continue reading
K2 Upgrade
Took K2, the style template of this WordPress site, up to Revision 125. Let me know if there are any bugs.