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Posts from ‘August, 2010’

First Steps

Summer is over, so it’s time to get to work! Of course, my summer wasn’t spent being lazy all the time. With Dr. Jadud’s advice, Dr. Goadrich obtained an Arduino – open source hardware –  in order for me begin … Continue reading

free interaction design for your open source project

During the summer of 2009, I had the good fortune of taking part in the Red Hat POSSE programme, meeting a bunch of excellent open source peeps, and getting a sense for how I might introduce more of my students to the world of open source contribution. This last spring, my colleague and I introduced [...]

An Updated GUI

The OSFA software now flaunts an improved GUI with many new features. The first thing that users will notice after starting OSFA is splash screen and tool icons, as can be seen here: When starting a new project the user is allowed to input the size of their Canvas to work on. Once the user [...]

Getting Started

And so we begin another year of research! This year, we’ll be continuing our explorations of parallelism and robotics by diving into the Trinity College Home Fire Fighting Robot contest! There’s more to our work than that, but hey… this … Continue reading

Some good, and some bad news…

Well, the good news first. We have made headway on obtaining our compass heading through the GPS chip. We haveRead the Rest…