Loading ...Since the SuperSecretProject is coming along nicely (now I do have the time for it, everything school-related is done for at least 2 weeks) I’ve decided to document it. It allows me to get to know our software a bit better and understand the user more. But, I have to admit, I know more fun stuff to do.
So who’s up for BurnOut? 
So, here we are. Using WordPress and everything and yeah I’m fully behind it now. Just keep in mind that it’s (probably) not promoting simplicity in code. Besides that, everything is neat. Michael installed a sourcecode highlighter which you can view in this post. I like it.
Now about Google AdSense, it’s something new we both want and to be very honest I did click on some AdSense links before (when browsing for my coilgun’s capacitor) so hey, they could be useful and make us a bit of profit while we’re add it. All the “profit” will be used for keeping this site up anyway, not that it’s that expensive, but it isn’t a free neither.
Besides that, Michael’s got his week ‘o tests this week, so there won’t be a lot of work made on our secret project, though that’s mostly my job now anyways since I must admit I’ve been slacking of a bit. That doesn’t mean I didn’t do anything, just not anything useful, hahaha.
We’ll keep you posted!
I want to take the opportunity to wish everyone a happy new year. I hope that everyone had a good night.
2009 will be .simplicity’s first full year. It’s shaping up to become an important year for us. Not only will we continue to expand the website, but we’ll also start publishing our projects. Speaking of that, Nick and I are currently working on a new project. I can’t say what we’re working on as we’ve decided to keep it secret for a while. I can only tell that the project is progressing nicely so far and that SourceForge.net has approved the project. More than that I can’t tell you.
Well, that’s enough for now. Again, happy new year everyone!
– Michael
Nick already mentioned it shortly yesterday, but I’m currently busy with my final school project. That doesn’t mean that I can’t work on .simplicity anymore, though. On the contrary. Because Computer Science plays an important role in my final school project I’ve more than enough to tell on .simplicity. You see, I’m currently developing an artificial intelligent robot called Artificial Intelligent Agent (Aia).
Aia is build around the Arduino. The Arduino is an open-source electronics prototyping platform. It’s a cheap solution for developing hardware. The fact that the Arduino is cheap doesn’t mean that it’s low-quality. You can make great things with it as it’s highly flexible. Besides that it’s also very easy to use as the Arduino uses a programming language which is based upon C and C++.
Photo by Nicholas Zambetti. Taken from Arduino.cc
But lets talk a bit about the project itself. The goal of the project is to create a robot that is able to do simple pathfinding. Aia will perceive the world through colour analysis and distance estimations. Maybe it will also be able to recognize shapes, but we’re not sure about that yet.
At the moment of writing our control panel (Aia|CP) is able to perform colour analysis of webcam images. It also contains a Lua terminal. And it’s able to set up a basic connection with Aia. On the other things we still need to work.
But that’s all for now. You’ll hear more about it in the future. And when it’s done the source code will probably become open-source.
- Michael
PS: In case you didn’t notice it… I’m not the only person working on this project. I’m just the developer. Bryan (surname-less) is responsible for the electronics. And Arjan (surname-less) is responsible for the design.
