robotics.youngster.com has compiled a nice list of Robotics related software. Have a look at here http://robotics.youngester.com/2008/11/robotics-software.html

University of California, San Diego computer scientists have built a software program that can perform key duplication without having the key. Instead, the computer scientists only need a photograph of the key. In this “Sneakey” Computer Vision project, features of the key is extracted from the photograph and accordingly a duplicate of the key is [...]

I found this interesting article [1] at NewScientistTech written by Kurt Kleiner. They have a nice approach to create a curved digital sensor (spherical) mostly using conventional photolithography. There can be endless applications since this will help to get wide-angle but less distorted images from a small camera. Also the author suggests, these can be [...]

It didn’t take too long for me to get rid of the previous “black” WordPress theme I’ve been using. But the most immediate reason was some encouragements given by few friends. Okay, that is how the fun began! . First, I wanted to use the layout I used back in 2004. Second, I wanted to [...]

One of my favorite areas of research is Robotics. Today I came across the following, which made a lot of sense since I am into SOA too. http://www.adarobotics.com/main/technology/soa-robotics.html adarobotics discusses about the SOA nature of its robotics implementation. It seems the following is the result of their implementation.

UDPATE: New Ubuntu release has made the life easy. You just need to follow on screen wizard to configure everything. Just select the country and the provider “Mobitel” (or even “Dialog”) from the menu. I’ve been using my N95 8GB / Mobitel Broadband (3.5G HSPA) to connect to internet for a while now. But I [...]

After some heavy modifications, Panoramas are available under gallery. I had to modify the FAlbum plugin, which I am using in WordPress, in order to automatically identify whether the current image is a normal photo or a panorama. So now I just need only to upload panorama images to my flicker account with “Panorama” tag, [...]

PTViewer is an open and free Panorama viewer. It is written in the Java language and should run in any java-enabled browser. Controls :