{"id":46,"date":"2009-09-03T21:40:37","date_gmt":"2009-09-04T04:40:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mathpirate.net\/log\/?p=46"},"modified":"2009-09-26T13:14:10","modified_gmt":"2009-09-26T20:14:10","slug":"break-it-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathpirate.net\/log\/2009\/09\/03\/break-it-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Break It Down"},"content":{"rendered":"

Let’s break down that spec and take a closer look at the components.<\/p>\n

Visual Data Collector<\/h2>\n

\"Visual<\/p>\n

The Visual Data Collector is a standard PC USB Webcam.\u00c2\u00a0 Hopefully it will meet my requirements.\u00c2\u00a0 If not, I have a backup plan.<\/p>\n

Computer Vision Textbook<\/h2>\n

\"Computer<\/h2>\n

I plan to use OpenCV to process the input from the Visual Data Collector.\u00c2\u00a0 It seems fairly straightforward to use, even when the task is complex.\u00c2\u00a0 Of course, I haven’t actually programmed anything using it yet, so we’ll see.\u00c2\u00a0 I’ve skimmed the book and have some idea of where to start.<\/p>\n

Communications Interface<\/h2>\n

\"Communications<\/h2>\n

The Newtonian Motion Decoder and Processor will talk to the Real Time Autonomous Interaction Device over Bluetooth.\u00c2\u00a0 I’ve never programmed anything using Bluetooth.\u00c2\u00a0 I pretty much stick to TCP\/IP.\u00c2\u00a0 This will be an interesting change.<\/p>\n

Real Time Autonomous Interaction Device<\/h2>\n

\"Realtime<\/p>\n

The Realtime Autonomous Interaction Device will be constructed using a Lego Mindstorms robotics kit.\u00c2\u00a0 I bought this about a year ago and only built the sample car thing that everyone builds first.\u00c2\u00a0 I’ve never tried anything on my own.\u00c2\u00a0 Until now.<\/p>\n

Simulator Control Interface<\/h2>\n

\"Simulator<\/p>\n

This device houses an analog potentiometer, which will function as the interface to the Newtonian Motion Simulation.<\/p>\n

Low-Resolution Newtonian Motion Simulator<\/h2>\n

\"Simulator<\/p>\n

This Video Computer System excels at running simulations of Newtonian motion, so I have chosen it as the primary Newtonian Motion Simulator for this project.<\/p>\n

Newtonian Motion Software<\/h2>\n

\"Simulation<\/p>\n

The read-only memory chip on this\u00c2\u00a0circuit board contains fifty different kinds of Newtonian motion simulations, however, for the purposes of this project, I will only be focusing on one of them.<\/p>\n

Hardware<\/h2>\n

\"Hardware\"<\/p>\n

Here’s a jumble of most of the equipment I’ll be using during this project.\u00c2\u00a0 Not pictured are the display screens for the Low-Resolution Newtonian Motion Simulator and the primary and secondary Decoder and Processor devices, as they are not very portable.<\/p>\n

So, there you have it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Let’s break down that spec and take a closer look at the components. Visual Data Collector The Visual Data Collector is a standard PC USB Webcam.\u00c2\u00a0 Hopefully it will meet my requirements.\u00c2\u00a0 If not, I have a backup plan. Computer Vision Textbook I plan to use OpenCV to process the input from the Visual Data […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24],"tags":[17,21,15,20,19,18],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathpirate.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathpirate.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathpirate.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathpirate.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathpirate.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mathpirate.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":488,"href":"https:\/\/mathpirate.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions\/488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathpirate.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathpirate.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathpirate.net\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}