The goal of this project was to develop a small, low-power camera system suitable for integration as a CubeSat payload. Three prototypes…

This guidance system for drones encompasses a simulator (APM SITL) or real drone support, path planning, mission creation, drone control…

Over the past year and a half, I have been working on the SFU Satellite Design Team as the computing subsystem lead. The team and I have…

I’ve been part of a lot of educational outreach for the SFU Satellite Design Team. It’s super fun talking about our projects to the public…

This post is a collection of a few tips and tricks for developing openCV applications on a Raspberry Pi (or any other embedded linux board…

This post contains notes that I generated while bringing up Petalinux on my Cora Z7-10 Zynq board. First I get Petalinux working and do a…

I’ve maintained a Wordpress blog for years now, and I always did like Wordpress. Creating Wordpress themes was one of the first significant…

I knew it would only be a matter of time until I would try out some deep learning. For me, the motivation to get stated came from two things…

At NWHacks in 2018 my team and I made a system to digitize player piano music scrolls using openCV. Using a camera, the location of the…

At the SFU Satellite Design Team, we are taking part in the Canadian Satellite Design Challenge. As part of the challenge, we were offered…

In this second post regarding my experiments with OpenCV on the Raspberry pi, I will go over interfacing the OpenCV code with the Pi’s UART…

At the SFU Satellite Design Team , we’re building a CubeSat from scratch. One of my main roles is designing the onboard computer hardware…

I bought a Raspberry Pi nearly a year ago, always intending to use it in OpenCV experiments. Just recently, I got around to starting the…

I recently had to implement multi-application trapezoidal rule for some work I was doing. I decided to implement the algorithm in MATLAB…

This tutorial covers installing and running HALCoGen for TI Hercules/TMS570 MCUs on a mac or Linux machine using WINE. I first started using…

For a class project, my team and I were lucky enough to be able to build a smart lock. The prototypes were constructed of 3D printed parts…

The TI Tiva Launchpad boards are an excellent way to get started working with ARM microcontrollers. With the Tivaware software suite, they…

The GPIO functions in Tivaware take a little fiddling with to understand. For beginners, it may not be immediately obvious what’s going on…

TI locks some GPIO pins because they’re required for programming interfaces like JTAG. SW2 on the LaunchPad is connected to PF0 ( page 33…