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| Qudon Foundation: Computing / Mathematics & Creative Think Tank |
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The Qudon Foundation is a think tank aimed at professionals in the fields of Computing / Mathematics and Creative (e.g. Law / Economics / Business) subject fields.
Each division of the think tank allows experts in their field to easily release work relating to their interests. Members have full access to the tools of the site which will allow them to release news about their projects, upload files that can be downloaded by others and/or write and release documentation and reports to do with their projects.
Members are free to work and release work on their own if they desire, work as a group of members on one larger project collectively. This is the key advantage of the group being for professionals and experts only - internal feedback and ideas from fully fledged Qudon Foundation members can always be relied on to be of a high quality.
Our Computing Division includes work in the fields such as Software Engineering, Image Processing and Computer Vision, Networking, Advanced Programming, Robotics, Data Mining and Artificial Intelligence (AI) to name but a few.
Other divisions have similar respective projects.
Created on 07/24/2003 11:30 PM by geddon
Updated on 08/07/2005 11:55 AM by phill
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DSP for All - With new Texas Instruments ControlCARD |
Posted by: phill on 06/10/2008 12:02 AM
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It's been a LONG time coming, until now running a TI DSP in your hobby design has been restricted to those who had worked in the business. Otherwise the setup costs of ~$2000 to get going put the 100-150MIP processing punch of a DSP out of reach.
Those who couldn't afford TI have often been drawn down the PIC or ARM
processor paths.
Well now TI are coming out punching at low cost development kits.
The new 2808 ControlCARD Experimenter Kit, gives you a complete kit for $89, pinned out and ready for experimentation. The ControlCARD's themselves can be had for as little as $59!!
And in an major step forward for DSP for all, this low cost kit also comes with a 32KB limited Free version of Code Composer IDE.
Read more for a Link to TI's site and where to buy.
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ERIX Robot: PCB Populated and working |
Posted by: phill on 01/08/2008 08:19 PM
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The ERIX robot interface board is now fully populated and working quite nicely, check out the picture below
For more info check out the main project page.
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ERIX Robot: PCB Arrives |
Posted by: phill on 09/12/2007 12:14 AM
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The PCB interface board for ERIX has arrived, taking only 12 days for manufacturer and delivery and costing just £27 (which paid for 5 boards!), check out the project page to see more info.
Read more for higher resolution pictures and get the project direct link
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Exciting Times: ERIX Robot gets its own PCB |
Posted by: phill on 08/27/2007 04:25 PM
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The ERIX robot project needed a solution for interfacing the TI 2808 DSP controller to its sensors and motor controllers.
It could have been done with a lot of jumper wires, but instead I'm being brave and I've produced my own PCB!
Exciting stuff indeed.
Check out the project page for more info.
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New Site Layout |
Posted by: phill on 06/27/2007 05:42 PM
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The Qudon Foundation site is currently migrating from it's traditional gray/white layout to a blue/gray scheme.
It is hoped that this will help meet a number of objectives:
- Increased Readability
- Improve ease of navigation
- Be kinder on the eyes.
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Comments Please... Commenting System Fixed! |
Posted by: phill on 05/21/2007 03:04 AM
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Due to a fault in the content management setup, the commenting system has been down for quite some time....
This went completely unnoticed to the site owners due to the fact the commenting options still appeared to be "there".
However, its' back online so feel free to return to leaving your thoughts on articles, announcements, projects etc. etc.
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ERIX Robot Update: Both Motors working + Content updates |
Posted by: phill on 05/10/2007 12:46 AM
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Both motor drivers have now been trialled and are working nicely, each driving a seriously large SYNC-SLO Stepper Motor.
The 'front' Infra Red range finder (one of ultimately 4) has been ordered, so some fun to be had calibrating this on the DSP soon.
A potential donor for the core chassis has been found from somewhat unusual parts
And an update on the long range sensors (Ultra Sonics) has been added to the sensor page...
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ERIX Robot Update: The Motors Turn for the first time! |
Posted by: phill on 03/26/2007 11:56 PM
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After far to many distractions I've finally spent some more time on my ERIX robot project - more importantly, getting the quite large motors up and running.
Check out the video to see the progress....
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Autonomous Helecopter Project Starts |
Posted by: phill on 01/31/2007 02:37 AM
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Using two Texas Instruments F2013 microcontrollers and a parts lists that comes in at under £150 (Inc. the Helicopter). This new project aims to achieve autonomous mission based flight at a super low cost.
The first few pages are up now with a lot of the pictures to come as the bulk of the prototype circuitry has already been developed.
Read more or follow the Computing Division "Projects" link for more detailed information on this project.
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ERIX Robotic Project : Updates |
Posted by: phill on 06/10/2006 11:20 PM
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One of the main Qudon Projects running at the moment is the ERIX: Robotic Image Processing Project and right now the motor controllers are being developed and the control software is being written.
The entire build is being logged and there are pictures of everything from the first circuit board used to isolate the motors from the controller, to the Digital Signal Processor that runs the "secondary brain" software to control the motors and sensors of ERIX. Every step of the way is being documented.
To find out more about this project Click Here
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Google Earth? Been There.... How About Google Mars! |
Posted by: phill on 05/13/2006 01:20 AM
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Sometimes taking a look into the labs of Google can give interesting rewards.
If you've got boarded of browsing satallite images of your house, friends houses and place of work.
Why not check out satallite pictures of Mars! with full zoom in functionality.
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Texas Instruments enlists Chartered for 65-nm production |
Posted by: phill on 05/13/2006 12:07 AM
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Texas Instruments Inc. is tweaking its manufacturing strategy, adding Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing as a third foundry for 65-nm production.
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