Instrument Element Echo

First outdoor test of Lego Mindstorm Robot

chayon84 — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 15:24:15 +0000

The Lego Mindstorm Robot (codename: “T1″ ) has been tested outside in an open field. The Instrument Element of the robot was on a web-server, running on a linux. The test web-page was accessed using an iPhone.

Though the robot doesn’t perform well on grass or rough terrain because of physical limitations, but the instrument element architecture for the device is working quite well. Watch:

Full speed ahead!

Test using iPhone

A full documentation will be published soon in the Intrument Element wiki page.

Welcome Alimur and Krzysztof!

Francesco — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 13:42:10 +0000

We are please to welcome Alimur and Krzysztof as new members of the project. Alimur is a master student specialized in embedded systems while Krzysztof has just finished his bachelor in computer science.

In the next months they will implements Web Based APIs for the Lego Mindstorm. They both are at their first experience in Opensource and soon we will see them around in our mailing lists and this blog.

Volunteer computing support

Mark Pruneri — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:50:54 +0000

Hi guys,

as Francesco introduced me this is my first post on the blog. It’s a great pleasure for me to start this open-source adventure with all of you!

I’ve just started to commit on the instrument element repository under the xwchplugin subproject directory.

Roughly the main objective of this subproject is to enable the possibility to connect to the volunteer computing middleware through a well defined interface (in our case the middleware considered will be xtremwebch [possibly some other in the future?]) in order to submit some computational intensive jobs to the volunteer computing middleware and get back the results instead of computing it locally which could be too much time-consuming or impossible.

At the moment you can find some ideas and all the input parameters needed to access this service in the repository.

I’m trying to abstract the connection to the volunteer computing middleware (class Connection), a generic application (class Application), its modules (class Module) and the interface to access the volunteer computing service (interface IVCMiddleware).

If you are curious, interested or have some tips to give me, feel free to drop me a message and/or email.

Welcome Mark!

Francesco — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 11:22:47 +0000

I am pleased to welcome Mark in our teem. He is a student at the faculty of informatics and he is at the beginning of his second year.
He is currently doing a summer internship at the faculty and this is his first “real experience” in Opensource. He is interested in Workflow and Volunteer Computing. Soon we will see him around in our mailing lists and this blog.

Web Site Updated

Francesco — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 10:32:04 +0000

The Website have been updated with a new project overview and links to our new SVN and Mailing lists. The task have been closed in our tracker but any comment is more than welcome!

Problems with Ohloh Enlistment Solved

Francesco — Tue, 12 May 2009 10:57:26 +0000

In the past days we encounter a few problems with our project enlistment in Ohloh. The problems appear to be solved now. I kindly ask you to keep an eye on our enlistment and if you see something wrong drop us a line!

link: Instrument Element Enlistment

Code moved in the source-forge SVN

Francesco — Thu, 07 May 2009 09:29:13 +0000

We just finished to move the code in the SVN repository; as we agree in our mail lists, from now on the development will continue there. The CVS will stay there for a wile and then, we will officially close it. Please inform us if you experience any trouble.

Welcome Amit!

Francesco — Wed, 06 May 2009 22:31:23 +0000

I am please to welcome our new active member of the team: Amit. He is a PhD candidate at the university of Melbourne and have a particular interest in the Lego Mindstorm. Soon we will see his contribution in our Wiki and SVN!

Once again welcome and we will all wish you an enjoyable open source experience!

Project Mailing Lists

Francesco — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 22:19:18 +0000

We have created 2 project mailing lists: one for the development and one for the support. As we agree in our forums we will use these mail lists as the preferred communication channel. So everyboddy is encouraged to subscribe!

Link: Instrument Element Mailing Lists.

In the coming days the web site will be updated as well.

Welcome Michal!

Francesco — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 20:49:43 +0000

I am please to welcome our new active member of the team: Michal. Soon we will see his contribution in our Wiki and CVS!

A link to his profile is in the Blogroll. Once again welcome and I wish you an enjoyable open source experience!