I am temporarily setting aside the webcam stuff because I had some handy motors dropped into my lap in the form of a pair of dead electric scooters. These run on 2 12v batteries in series for a 24v system. The design of these is fairly simple with only...

I spent a big part of the weekend trying to get my own code to grab a still image from my web cam. In the end I had a complete failure, then I realized I had fallen into a trap that could happen to others. The USB web cam driver that was originally...

Someone sent me a question regarding how to get started doing CE development. I will preface the answer with the simple fact that I have been doing this since 2000 and so don't have the freshest eyes on the getting started question. So I will take...

I wanted to use a test application for verifying the function of the USB webcam. There is a test application which ships with CE called cameradshowapp. This lives in the shared source. Problem was I didn't install the shared source and CETK when I...

Please note I am going to be building on the work's of others for this. I am not going to be writing a USB driver from scratch or doing any super fancy vision processing. I am going to integrate what others before me have done and bend it to my needs...

Now that we have our image ready it's time to get the device hooked up so we can download the image. The ARTiGO is really just a small PC so set it up as such (mouse / keyboard / display) for now. In my setup I am using a USB keyboard and mouse. Using...

Everything is installed now and it is time to build our first CE image for the device. Start Visual Studio (if this is the first time you have run VS with PB installed there will be some configuration dialogs about default settings). File ->...

Ok, we have all the parts laying around now (ARTiGo, Laptop, Spark CD). Time to get the SparkStation setup. Most everyone out there has installed a piece of software on Windows. This isn't much different. Insert VS 2005 CD disk 1 and close the...

This work is being done as an outside of work free time project. As such I wanted to keep a clean development environment separate from my other home / work computers. So I have setup a laptop for my spark development. And I am enough of a geek that I...

I will be using the VIA ARTiGO spark kit as my experimentation test bed. From the VIA site: "The SPARK Your Imagination Kit comprises a complete VIA ARTiGO A1000 Pico-ITX Builder Kit, which includes a 1GHz VIA EPIA PX10000 Pico-ITX board, ultra...

First things first we need a breakdown of things we want to accomplish. In rough order Device working, get an OS image running on a Spark system board. Vision, I want my device to be able to see the world around it. Going with the simple USB...

Welcome to my blog. A little about myself before we begin. I started programming on an Atari 400 in the math lab of my Jr. High School during 9th grade. I "graduated" to a Commodore VIC-20 when I got one for Christmas a year later. I sold...