Making of a spoon.

First track on SounCloud

First sound posted today !!

My first steam engine

Hi there,

A quick post to show the little steam engine that I machined during the summer.

The machining was mainly done on this Schaublin mill.

The cylinder assembly

The cylinder is made of cast iron which gives auto lubricant properties to it.

The piston

The piston is obviously turned brass.It has tight dimensions to make a really nice fit with the cylinder.

Partial assembly

Fully assembled

Fully assembled with the boiler connected

The boiler is made of 3mm thick iron. I brazed all the the hardware to it to make it as steam tight as possible.

The first mod you have to do with your Intel Galileo

As you would have noticed if you own the new Intel Galileo the mini Pci-e port on the back feels squishy.
So if you are like me and you don’t want to destroy your new toy here is what I have done :

I took 4 M4 screws and nuts, and I also added 4 plastic nuts to make the board grip a bit better on the table.

 

M4 screws and nuts

 

Better right ??

I don’t think anyone will come on my page but even though have a nice one !!!

See you next time.

How I made Open-Cv working with XCode on my mac

After many frustrating attempts I finally made OpenCv works on my mac.

Here I’ll explain how:

1) Install CMake  (http://www.cmake.org/cmake/resources/software.html ) by just flowing the installer assistant

2)Download OpenCv (http://sourceforge.net/projects/opencvlibrary/files/opencv-unix/2.3.1/)

3)Execute the followings instruction in your Terminal (/Applications/Utilities/Terminal)

cd /path to your download folder
tar xvf OpenCV-your version.tar.bz2
cd OpenCV-your version
mkdir build
cd build
cmake -G "Unix Makefiles" ..
make
sudo make install

4) Now under /usr/local/lib you should have some new files beginning with OpenCV

 

 

 

5) Now create a new XCode project

6) Now your project is create you can add the library we just download under “Build Phases”

6) Link the binaries by cliking “+” then “Add Other…” . A window pop-up, then strike “/” for me it was “shift-7” (in Switzerland) and type /usr/local/lib . The select opencv core & highgui which are the two most important library to have.

7) Now you should have the to library on the left bar, you can put the files into a seperate folder to make your project cleaner if you want.

8) Finally under “Build Settings” search for the “Search Paths” section and modify the entries as shown below.

 

 

 

 

 

42) The last step is to learn OpenCv.

Here is a template I always start with this make the include much easier.

// main.cpp

#include <opencv2/opencv.hpp>
#include <opencv2/core/core.hpp>
#include <opencv2/highgui/highgui.hpp>

using namespace cv;
using namespace std;

int main( int argc, char** argv )
{
CvCapture *capture;
IplImage *img;

int key;

capture = cvCreateCameraCapture(CV_CAP_ANY);
cvNamedWindow( "First Code", 1 );

while( key != 'q' )
{

img= cvQueryFrame( capture );
cvShowImage( "First Code", img);
key = cvWaitKey( 10 );

}

cvReleaseCapture( &capture );
cvDestroyWindow( "First code" );

return 0;
}

It just return the input of your webcam 🙂

Good Luck. And catch you next time.