Initial is a 40-cm humanoid robot. Its used for testing of running ROS on single board computer, Odroid U3, which talks to a low level controller board for controlling servo motors via serial port. It is also equipped with an HD camera, and the video stream can be transported to the laptop via wifi.[……]
Play Sound and Text-to-Speech on Odroid U3
April 30, 2015 Tech No comments
After one week hacking I finally found out how to play sound or do text-to-speech on Odroid U3.
What you need to do is simply:
then when you typegroups odroid , you will see that the user odroid is in the audio group. Then you can play sound through the 3.5mm[……]
Set up VNC Server on Odroid U3
April 14, 2015 Tech 2 comments
This tutorial is aimed to set up the VNC server on your Odroid U3 so that you can get full access to its GUI using your laptop or desktop without using a HDMI display.
Set up:
Odroid U3:
sudo apt-get install vnc4serverorsudo apt-get install tightvnc4server.- tap
vncserver :1which means open p[……]
Set up Odroid U3 with ROS
March 4, 2015 Tech 2 comments
Set up Odroid U3 with ROS
Flash the MicroSD card with new image (optional)
The MicroSD card which comes with the Odroid set has been flashed with the image on Odroid official website: http://com.odroid.com/sigong/nffileboard/nfileboard.php
However a Robotics Edition image is also available h[……]
Procreate Painting: Kelsey (with process video)
January 4, 2015 Sketch Book, Work & Life No comments Sketchbook
Process Video:
Hardware: Ipad 4
App: Procreate
Model: Kelsey
Procreate Painting: Sakura (with process video)
January 3, 2015 Sketch Book, Work & Life No comments Sketchbook
Process Video:
Hardware: IPad 4
App: Procreate
Tool: Fingers
Model: Sakura
SketchBook Painting: Kelsey
January 3, 2015 Sketch Book, Work & Life No comments Sketchbook
Hardware: iTouch 4
App: SketchBook Mobile
Model: Kelsey
Install Recsys and Crab in Ubuntu 12.04
March 15, 2014 Recommender System No comments
crab:
Don’t install crab in this way: pip install crab / easy_install crab
You can find crab in pypi.python.org, this is not our scikits.crab source
Solution:
git clone https://github.com/muricoca/crab.git
python setup.py install
test: python -c “import scikits.crab as scc; scc.test()”
re[……]
Notes for CGAL Programming
January 9, 2014 3D Mesh Segmentation, Tech No comments Computer Vision
Reference:
http://www.cgal.org/Tutorials/Tutorial_SCG99.ps.gz
The structure of CGAL:
Geometric Kernel:
Points, Predicates, and Exactness
Number Types
Cartesian Representation
Homogeneous Representation
Generic Programming and the Basic Library:
Templates in C++
Generic Funct[……]
Install and Use CGAL in Ubuntu 12.04
January 8, 2014 3D Mesh Segmentation, Tech 8 comments Computer Vision
CGAL is a powerful C++ library which can be applied in various areas needing geometric computation, ranging from medical imaging to mesh generation. This article will tell you how to set it up in Ubuntu. Before this, I strongly recommend you to read through the official guide of it.
1. Instal[……]
Painting with Color
December 25, 2013 Sketch Book, Work & Life No comments
This the first time for me to paint with color using an IPad 2.
I used procreate to paint this picture. It took me about 6 hours finising it.
And this one is painted with Sketchbook Pro.
A Heart Beating Journey In Taiwan
September 2, 2013 Travel No comments
I together with my two teamates, two teachers and two school mates went to Taiwan for 5 days from 2013.8.26 to 8.30 to attend TECO Green Technology Contest 2013. We had a great time in this 5 days.
Day 1 Arriving
We arrived at Taiwan in Taoyuan International Airport at about 12 AM after which we[……]
TECO Green Technology Contest 2013
This is the presentation I gave in the 2013 TECO Green Tech International Contest World Final.
for English watcher:(YouTube)
for Chinese watcher:(Youku)
TECO Green Technology Contest is a contest organized by TECO Technology Foundation in Taiwan.
Our team built up a project called the In[……]
AGI 2013 Summer School: Notes of NARS
August 5, 2013 Artificial Intelligence & Data Mining No comments AGI
L#1 notes:
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L#5 notes:
AGI 2013 Summer School
August 5, 2013 Artificial Intelligence & Data Mining, Tech No comments AGI
http://www.mindmakers.org/projects/agi-summer-school-2013
I attended the AGI 2013 Summer School last month, which was really impressing. At the very beginning, I was just interested about artificial intelligence and did not know what Artificial General Intelligence was. And during the summer sc[……]
Install R-Rattle on Ubuntu12.04 64bit
June 24, 2013 Pro_R No comments R
If you have installed R in your Ubuntu and you need to some machine learning work on it, Rattle is recommended.
> install.packages(“RGtk2”)
> install.packages(“rattle”)
You may met problems when installing RGtk2, like this:
GNU/Linux: configure: error: GTK version 2.8.0 required
This[……]
My view on Data Mining and Machine Learning
June 17, 2013 Artificial Intelligence & Data Mining, Tech No comments Data Mining, Machine Learning
The Relationship Between Data Mining and Machine Learning
Its been a long time since I get to know about such concepts as: Data Mining, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Pattern Recognition and etc.. However, they are in a kind of mess and its hard to figure out the relationship between th[……]
JDK+MySQL+Tomcat+Eclipse+MyEclipse+Hadoop+Mahout Installation on Ubuntu 12.04
Mahout integrates a lot of common machine learning algorithms which faciliates those who want to do some research in data mining. It is based on Java and a lot of need to be done before you can make it work. At least you will need JDK, Eclispse, Hadoop and Mahout. But I strongly recommend all those[……]