[OLPC-Games] vision processing / juggling

Edward Cherlin echerlin at gmail.com
Tue Jul 15 16:57:11 EDT 2008


On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 4:01 PM, Tim Wintle <tim.wintle at teamrubber.com> wrote:
> I wasn't aware there was any way to get an olpc in Europe currently
> (unless you have friends in the US that are willing to get you one) -
> what is the best way to get your hands on one in the UK (I'm willing to
> make a donation, but G1G1 wasn't available here last time) - I need the
> actual hardware to profile my application on.
>
> Tim Wintle

Developers who need hardware can apply for a free development unit. See
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Developers_program#XO_and_hardware_access

It will tell you to apply at
http://projectdb.olpc.at/

where you need to register first and log in.

> On Sun, 2008-07-13 at 11:58 -0400, Brian Jordan wrote:
>> Hi Nirav, brothers, OLPC-games,
>>
>> Nirav Patel's GSoC project is vision processing for the XO (I believe
>> using a subset of the OpenCV library)... and rather good at colored
>> object / face recognition. (Eric, try the
>> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Colors! activity on an XO when you get a
>> chance... it can use the green power cord (or really any light in a
>> dark room) as drawing input)
>>
>> I was thinking ... a learn to juggle activity may make use of this
>> processing to track progress and give tips (practice 1/2 balls again!,
>> etc). Greg -- you've done some vision processing and you are a
>> juggling guru... you might want to consider applying for a laptop at
>> http://projectdb.olpc.at/ to play with this sort of thing. :)
>>
>> I wonder what best color / pattern could go on the balls to be easy to
>> track... possibly to track spin? :)
>>
>> Brian
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