[clue] [TECH] Forth and Dreamplug

[YES NOPE9]

I plan to produce products that are completely based on FLOSS.
Which means the products will have no proprietary information.
All information will be revealed..... subject to our energy level.
99guspuppet

> On Jun 6, 2011, at 4:52 PM, Lorin Ricker wrote:
> 
> Gus -- Sounds like some fascinating projects; perhaps you could make one 
> or more CLUE meeting presentation(s) out of these, without divulging 
> proprietary information, of course?  Certainly your experience with 
> making the FLOSS components play nicely together?  Good stuff!
> 
> On 06/06/2011 04:48 PM, daryl kuchay wrote:
>> Very interesting application. I was just let go from Mikron in Aurora.
>> Swiss industrial assembly system manufacturer who's customers are mostly
>> medical device manufacturers. There is a lot of money to be made in the
>> vision appliance market. Something that has an easy calibration
>> interface and spits out a positive on true and a few handshake bits for
>> PLC integration and you are on the way to the bank. Cognex could use
>> some competition. Cheers!
>> 
>> On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 4:40 PM, YES NOPE9 <yes at nope9.com
>> <mailto:yes at nope9.com>> wrote:
>> 
>>    #1   My buddy ( Dennis Kathrens ) and I are adding things to a GuruPlug.
>>    We connected a USB C901 webcam ( HD ) to the GuruPlug and served
>>    video using Palantir.
>>    For some reason ( not yet determined ) , the webcam would not be
>>    recognized if it was connected through a USB hub.
>> 
>>    Now we are wading through the process of getting Python , OpenCV (
>>    or perhaps ROS ) to play nice together.  Once this happens , we will
>>    code some computer vision algorithms:
>>    ==  to count small objects ( pills )
>>    ==  to recognize the borders of documents that have been imaged and
>>    trim the images
>>    ==  to examine the document image for barcodes ( 1D and 2D ) and
>>    extract info as metadata.
>>    ==  control the universe   ( this is a long term effort )
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>    #2  I am working on getting Forth running on the Wiznet W7100 .....
>>    or maybe LUA instead .... then I will have small modules that can
>>    hang on the ethernet network and accept code downloads.
>> 
>>    My intention is to FLOSS all of the accomplishments and also try to
>>    make a buck as well.  I am always interested in collaborating.  I
>>    love what Sparkfun in Boulder, CO has done.  Maybe I can get
>>    something of a similar flavor going.
>> 
>>    99guspuppet
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