WOW, Utterly amazing, would love some help, with an I-Cub like platform idea on the Cognitive side.
Ok had a quick read here and it all seems overly long-winded and overly complicated ?
I am lucky enough to have qualified for a student license of Inventor and I can grab Electrical if I really need it, so is it not possible to just import period, equally per this I found on RS components and it has free software if its useful, do RS have a model already prepped perhaps as I bought my first board from them, might it be an Idea as there your a UK reseller?
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To be frank its it about doing some concept design to create a "Noggin" cluster, for a bipedal robot based on i-Cub
or drawn from, so pos some streamlined liquid cooling, in combo with a peltier TEG/s, is anyone designing any daughter boards/shields as they say in Ardunio land at all? A diddy Optical/fibre adapter & micro hub would be great as CAT6 is a bulky as heck, then Gig/Fast wireless/radio back to norm Cat6 gig network. All diddy and a cheap as chips obviously.
Then the "Noggin" cluster can un-docked from Bot and continue to exist in a Sim/Virtual space "Noggin-Dreams", this looks pretty cool but integration into a better CGI Engine would be good like Unreal or Unity3D. The other element would be to make the "Noggin-Dreams" accessible in the Cloud, like its own open source Game, but is kinda working like Boinc, actually a bit of that and a bit of in effect like an on-line game-sim world for Machine Learning Cognitive Characters, that is its own parallel cognitive learning network. Mods inside the Virtual world being as functional in the Real-world if one could only afford it.
Just wondering if there is anywhere else I can post this as there does not see to be an Open forum for I-Cub, or is anyone could help me but everything together pitch it as a Open source project & have a Team to work with. Can see immediate applications for kids, especially those with Aspergers/Austin interacting with a cognitive childlike character/s within a Sandbox like world, in fact many other such a Trauma therapy, when you then combine it with Real-life & say Hologlass/Augmented Reality & EEG tech etc, etc. Let alone the bigger research gains.
Thing is I have always been a very visual BIG Ideas person, but really need the help of a team having Aspergers myself. Can you say repost or should I repost as a project idea and obviously any recommends on other forums would be peachy. In the meantime I will start working on some concept art and infograms (hence ideally needing models of everything, so can base characters in VR (Blender/Maya + Game engine once out of Inventor) around skinning I-cub in 1st instance, with parrallel mod). Just wish I-cub was a bit more Open as its Sim is just far too stand-alone at the moment as main biggest gains in feild as far as I can see at mo. I even started to setup Azure APIs/tools for Storm & Spark via the Hortonworks Virtual Machine Sandbox, but the free Student account does bugger all so much for actually learning anything, as obviously the idea needs a cloud as well a local cluster/s, so any other ideas to be able to access anything so I can learn?
Must admit Poppy looks interesting, going to see if they can help too.
As well as a fair bit of fiddling while I await some more bits to get my 1st board up to do some testing on that too. Yey for Noggin Juice, just seen it whirring away he..he...!!!
Cheers
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