One Week – Rapid Engineering, Learning from Failure, and Assorted Adhesive Tapes

Posted on 2012/09/19 by jjuhnke — No Comments ↓

I wanted to share this adventure for those of you who find your brilliant ideas aren’t as brilliant as you thought or some unforeseen variable has put a damper on your designs. I have been there and here is one…

Tagged with: DARPA, FAIL, hunter, Learning from failure, rapid engineering, TEMP, testing, Vision system
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Could Canny Edge Detection Help FireFighters See in the Dark?

Posted on 2012/08/22 by jjuhnke — No Comments ↓

As part of the work I’m doing to build out the Computer Vision Processing Unit (CVPU) for our First Responder Information System (codename Hero), I have been experimenting with a number of technologies that render captured images (on any spectrum)…

Tagged with: canny, Canny Edge Detection, Cornell, detection, edge, fire, fire fighters, first responders, Make3D, see through smoke, smoke vision, SWIR
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A note on sudo apt-get upgrade for Pandaboards running Ubuntu 11.10

Posted on 2012/08/21 by jjuhnke — No Comments ↓

It’s always good to keep your install fresh and secure. The typical way to do this is from the command line type: sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade This usually works just fine, but if you get the following error:…

Tagged with: 11.10, error, message, pandaboard, ubuntu, zz-flash-kernel
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NovemberKiloEcho to carry on Tanagram First Responder Vision (presentation)

Posted on 2012/06/22 by jjuhnke — No Comments ↓

This presentation from my meeting with the IAB earlier this week outlines the synthetic vision technology that is currently being developed by NKE through a partnership with Innovega (former founders of Microtek). While this presentation may seem like a regurgitation…

Tagged with: AR, augmented reality, EMT, enhanced reality, firefighters, first responders, police, public safety
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Fire in the hole! NKE submits to the upcoming DARPA Grand Robotics Challenge 2012

Posted on 2012/06/02 by jjuhnke — No Comments ↓

If you haven’t heard about this, DARPA is going to do it again. The upcoming DARPA Grand Robotics Challenge 2012 is going to be for teams to build humanoid robots for use in humanitarian aid crises. Each robot will be…

Tagged with: DARPA, grand challenge, humanoid, regenerative energy, robot, robotics
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How to install OpenCV 2.4 on your Pandaboard – an addendum

Posted on 2012/05/08 by jjuhnke — No Comments ↓

Andrews Sobral has created an excellent tutorial for installing OpenCV on the Pandaboard. In my last post I used a few of his early setup tricks to get a bare-bones install for the best performance. Instead of recreating his excellence…

Tagged with: 11.10, ffmpeg, install, omap4, opencv, opencv 2.4, operating system, pandaboard, performance, setup, tutorial, ubuntu, ubuntu server
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How to install Ubuntu 11.10 onto your Pandaboard and get maximum performance.

Posted on 2012/04/23 by jjuhnke — 6 Comments ↓

Hunter’s vision system is powered by the amazing Pandaboard. If you own one and are unimpressed by the speed at which this little devil can perform, this tutorial may help you get the most out of your board using just…

Tagged with: 11.10, hunter, install, omap4, operating system, OS, pandaboard, performance, SD, setup, speed, tutorial, ubuntu, ubuntu server
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Hello World! – Introducing NovemberKiloEcho

Posted on 2012/04/16 by jjuhnke — No Comments ↓

Greetings and Salutations, We are very excited to make this first post. The site is not complete (not even close) but we are already working hard to get things up for “consumption.” Our goal is to bring our government research…

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