Gumstix == Success
Posted by Motoma
This weekend I spliced together a couple of USB cables to allow me to attach my USB-A devices to the USB-B port on the Console-VX. I have successfully connected my USB thumbdrive, 60Gb iPod, and Vimicro webcam to the tiny board. I still need to compile the video drivers for the camera, but it was quite exciting to see the Verdex mount and search my iPod's 60 gig hard drive.
Gumstix Verdex has finally arrived!
Posted by Motoma
I received my Gumstix Verdex XL6P and the matching Console-VX board from the friendly UPS man last night. After 15 minutes of set-up and tinkering, I had my PuTTY terminal greeted me with with a friendly login prompt:
Alice Release
Posted by Motoma
I have made an official release of the graph traversal engine, codenamed Alice, today. Alice is an experimental graph traversal algorithm, based loosely on the Breadth-First Search, and having the properties listed in one of my previous posts. For you readers who are curious, you may pick up the path-finding library, its source code, and a small demonstration from the MotomaBASE Sourceforge Page. If anyone takes the time to try it out and play with it, please post your thought here so I can know what you think of it.
Slipstream: Pathing
Posted by Motoma
I completed the path-finding algorithm today. At its simplest level it is merely a Breadth-First Search on an undirected graph. This has a number of benefits:
New Project: Slipstream
Posted by Motoma
I have been recruited to work on a new Sourceforge.net project called Slipstream. We are still in the design and layout phase, but we have some hard-hitting experts in on the project and there are great ideas kicking around.