Really great turn out, and our dogs scrimmaged super well. Blue team bested Red Team 5-2.
Exhibition: Success
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Lab gets iPod Hi-Fi
Predictably, we have it pose with one of our aibos. Here are a few more pictures.
Northern Bites Qualifies for World Championships!!
We’re going to Germany!!!
UPDATE:: Here’s a list of teams that qualified. Over 39 35 teams applied, twelve of which were guaranteed qualification from last year’s performance!
UPDATE x2:: Lots of Chatter going on in the four-legged league mailing list including a message sent by the head honcho of the league concerning the qualification process: Legged Qualification FAQ.
UPDATE x3:: 35 Teams applied. 12 Prequalified. 11 were let in by committee. Northern Bites is only one of three teams selected as first-year applicants to the World Championship!
Aibo, meet Raptor
uniforms+balls
Alright! We’ve received our own shipment of uniforms and balls, thanks to Noriaki Mitsunaga and the iXs Research Corp.
Northern Bites 2006
Fear the team from the North.
Thanks to David Israel for the Logo.
Rumblings from the Lab…
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This is how Computer Science students roll: with 16 fps Overhead cameras to improve our localization parameters.
Notice aibo10 flipped over on his back as well.
Now that our overhead camera works (looks great when you transfer the feed to the plasma), our lab is nearing 100% awesomeness.
Hello, World!
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After many frustrating days and numerous debugging styles, I’ve finally gotten Python to run on Aperios!
I’ve often read that good Programmers are not amazingly proficient coders but they instead excel at debugging their own code. Boy–do I need to get better at this. The technique that finally got things going was taking the entirety of the 2005 rUNSWift code and widdling it down to the Python layer. This allowed me to step incrementally while making sure things stay working. Long process–but I learned heaps about Aperios, Python, and C++ in general.
Onward!
Merry Christmas!
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Meet the newest member of MY family–though I’m sure he’ll be spending plenty time grooving in the Bowdoin Lab.
This is a iDog. I will not program it to play Soccer.
On the development side, I’ve spent a couple of hours in the past few days getting to know the vision system–and I now actually understand the new techniques we use as well as the old compression we use for AiboConnect.
The only issue is getting me and Yi Zhuang, our vision guru, on the same page: China to Maryland via email discussing code that is stored at Bowdoin–tricky! Thankfully we have Subversion.
The New Asimo
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Video of the New Asimo, sadly not the size pictured above, is now available from Honda. See the Asimo run at 6km/h, exercise, or even receiving and delivering a tray.