Ok had a quick read here and it all seems overly long-winded and overly complicated ?
I am lucky enough to have qualified for a student license of Inventor and I can grab Electrical if I really need it, so is it not possible to just import period, equally per this I found on RS components and it has free software if its useful, do RS have a model already prepped perhaps as I bought my first board from them, might it be an Idea as there your a UK reseller?
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To be frank its it about doing some concept design to create a "Noggin" cluster, for a bipedal robot based on i-Cub
or drawn from, so pos some streamlined liquid cooling, in combo with a peltier TEG/s, is anyone designing any daughter boards/shields as they say in Ardunio land at all? A diddy Optical/fibre adapter & micro hub would be great as CAT6 is a bulky as heck, then Gig/Fast wireless/radio back to norm Cat6 gig network. All diddy and a cheap as chips obviously.
Then the "Noggin" cluster can un-docked from Bot and continue to exist in a Sim/Virtual space "Noggin-Dreams", this looks pretty cool but integration into a better CGI Engine would be good like Unreal or Unity3D. The other element would be to make the "Noggin-Dreams" accessible in the Cloud, like its own open source Game, but is kinda working like Boinc, actually a bit of that and a bit of in effect like an on-line game-sim world for Machine Learning Cognitive Characters, that is its own parallel cognitive learning network. Mods inside the Virtual world being as functional in the Real-world if one could only afford it.
Just wondering if there is anywhere else I can post this as there does not see to be an Open forum for I-Cub, or is anyone could help me but everything together pitch it as a Open source project & have a Team to work with. Can see immediate applications for kids, especially those with Aspergers/Austin interacting with a cognitive childlike character/s within a Sandbox like world, in fact many other such a Trauma therapy, when you then combine it with Real-life & say Hologlass/Augmented Reality & EEG tech etc, etc. Let alone the bigger research gains.
Thing is I have always been a very visual BIG Ideas person, but really need the help of a team having Aspergers myself. Can you say repost or should I repost as a project idea and obviously any recommends on other forums would be peachy. In the meantime I will start working on some concept art and infograms (hence ideally needing models of everything, so can base characters in VR (Blender/Maya + Game engine once out of Inventor) around skinning I-cub in 1st instance, with parrallel mod). Just wish I-cub was a bit more Open as its Sim is just far too stand-alone at the moment as main biggest gains in feild as far as I can see at mo. I even started to setup Azure APIs/tools for Storm & Spark via the Hortonworks Virtual Machine Sandbox, but the free Student account does bugger all so much for actually learning anything, as obviously the idea needs a cloud as well a local cluster/s, so any other ideas to be able to access anything so I can learn?
Must admit Poppy looks interesting, going to see if they can help too.
As well as a fair bit of fiddling while I await some more bits to get my 1st board up to do some testing on that too. Yey for Noggin Juice, just seen it whirring away he..he...!!!
Cheers
Karma
Statistics: Posted by Karma — Sat May 16, 2015 3:45 am
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Any plans to move some of the number crunching from the i7 to Epiphany? What kind of software would you need in place to make that happen? I want to help anyway I can.
Thank you!
Andreas
Statistics: Posted by aolofsson — Tue Feb 10, 2015 6:45 pm
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Brennand Pierce
Some images of the progress:
The robot
Statistics: Posted by Bren — Tue Feb 10, 2015 12:24 pm
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To build the eSDK I cross compiled the entire SDK on my Linux PC. Following the steps from the Github wiki () I was able to generate most of the necessary files. Though initially I noticed that if the download-toolchain.sh script is run without parameters it pulls out-dated sources, so I used the "./download-toolchain.sh --clone" command instead to have it get the most up-to-date sources.
With all the most recent updates from the repositories and calling the build-epiphany-sdk.sh script the resulting esdk folder had only two folders inside the esdk folder, tools and bsps. Looking through the build-epiphany-sdk.sh script all of the files that were not there came from the install-sdk.sh script and epiphany-libs/build-libs.sh (I needed to manually download the Epiphany-Libs 2014.08.rc repo "git clone https://github.com/adapteva/epiphany-libs.git" inside of the sdk folder). To correct these issues I had to manually download the kernel source repository "git clone https://github.com/parallella/parallella-linux.git -b main" and export its location "export PARALLELLA_BUILD_HOME=PATH_TO_THE_DIRECTOR", this is required for the e-lib.h to build successfully.
Once all of that was done I called the install-sdk.sh script (./install-sdk.sh -n "2014.08" -x "master" --host arm-linux-gnueabihf -p /opt/adapteva) and the eSDK compiled successfully. To verify that everything was in place I checked the "/opt/adapteva/esdk/" and found that all missing files were in place, and that e-lib.h was in "/opt/adapteva/esdk/tools/e-gnu/epiphany-elf/include" which it was not before. Next I used scp to transfer the files to the Parallella (as stated in the Github wiki). Finally, to confirm that the eSDK was usable I ran some epiphany-examples on the Parallella and had no issues.
The next step from this point is to test the system with ROS and see if I can have a ROS node utilize the Epiphany before going into modifying ROS to operate entirely on the Epiphany.
--John
http://www.chicagoedt.org/
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If anyone else is attending as well, I hope to see you there!
--John
http://www.chicagoedt.org/
Statistics: Posted by Gamedrummer — Thu Sep 11, 2014 9:06 pm
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I felt that I should note this since it appears that the libmpc2 package is not easily available anymore and is required to compile the Epiphany code.
--John Sabino
Statistics: Posted by Gamedrummer — Wed Sep 10, 2014 3:58 pm
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--John
http://www.chicagoedt.org/
Statistics: Posted by Gamedrummer — Fri Sep 05, 2014 10:34 pm
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I am aware that Indigo has all required packages ready, so my work should not be impeded. This only sets me back by a little bit since the kernel and what I have of the current package should be unaffected, meaning I can just move them over. I will begin the fresh install of Linaro tonight, I will document it, as before, for future use.
--John
http://www.chicagoedt.org/
Statistics: Posted by Gamedrummer — Thu Sep 04, 2014 5:41 pm
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Sorry for the long delay from my last response, I got around the USB issue by replacing the FPGA bitstream with a fresh copy, and everything is working fine now! I will be testing the full autonomy code sometime this week, and I am creating a CMake file for the Epiphany_Node package to compile both ARM code and Epiphany code on a 'catkin_make' call.
--John
http://www.chicagoedt.org/
Statistics: Posted by Gamedrummer — Wed Aug 27, 2014 5:58 pm
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