Category Archives: Informatics
Ubuntu (Unity) is moving toward Qt
After choosing Qt/QML framework as main support for its mobile operating system (smartphone/tablet), it seems that the desktop version is moving toward this line.
The next version of Unity, the hated/loved Ubuntu Desktop user interface called “Unity Next” will be realized in fact with the new framework Qt5.
Source: Phronix - Ubuntu Wiki
Curiosity… how many computer onboard???
It began as one of the most spectacular missions for the technologies used to land a Rover as big as a Smart on Mars, but it is proving to be even more spectacular for the hardware design of Curiosity.
It is a news of these days, in fact, that Curiosity has had problems in flash memory of the main computer; Can NASA have overlooked the possibility that a similar problem can invalidate a mission that has cost of several million of dollars? Of course not. In fact, the control of the rover has been swapped to a second computer that will be made fully operational shortly after a short passage in “safe mode”. In the meantime, the land-based operators can easily restore the full functionality of the computer that has been just sent to rest.
Power of the redundancy.
Source: NASA
Coming soon…
I am working on a series of tutorials about the boards STm32F4 and STm32F3 Discovery to realize an Inertial Mass Unit at 9 degrees of freedom and a simple low level Control Unit for applications of mobile robotics, using MyzharBot as development base.
Stay tuned…
The first tutorial is back online
I am happy to write that one of the tutorial I like the more has not been lost and it is back online:
The page “[OpenCV Qt Tutorial] OpenGL Widget to show OpenCV images in a Qt GUI” is available again in the “Programming” section.
Stay tuned
