Elphel Development Blog

Elphel, inc. on trip to Geneva, Switzerland.

Monday, April 14, 2014 – 18:15 at Uni-Mail, room MR070, University of Geneva.

Elphel, Inc. is giving a conference entitled “High Performance Open Hardware for Scientific Applications”. Following the conference, you will be invited to attend a round-table discussion to debate the subject with people from Elphel and Javier Serrano from CERN.

Javier studied Physics and Electronics Engineering. He is the head of the Hardware and Timing section in CERN’s Beams Control group, and the founder of the Open Hardware Repository. Javier has co-authored the CERN Open Hardware Licence. He and his colleagues have also recently started contributing improvements to KiCad, a free software tool for the design of Printed Circuit Boards

Elphel Inc. is invited by their partner specialized in stereophotogrammetry applications – the Swiss company Foxel SA, from April 14-21 in Geneva, Switzerland.

You can enjoy a virtual tour of the Geneva University by clicking on the links herein below:
(make sure to use the latest version of Firefox or Chromium to view the demos)

• Uni-mail outside view
• Uni-mail inside view

Foxel’s team would be delighted to have all of Elphel’s clients and followers to participate in the conference.
A chat can also be organized in the next few days. Please contact us at Foxel SA.

If you do not have the opportunity to visit us in Geneva, the conference will be streamed live and the recording will be available.

EyesisMaps

I have made some progress to integrate OpenLayers with EyesisPlayer resulting in EyesisMaps. Marek has added some Javascript callbacks to EyesisPlayer to allow features on OpenLayers to be updated and visa versa. So we gained a moveable arrow and interface directly with a PostgreSQL database via FeatureServer.

While still polishing it; but you can see the sneak preview:

Eyesis-in-Car GUI mockup

Tonight I was thinking about what the possibilities are for the driver to actually see what he is shooting and at the same time facilitate appliances such as traveling salesman routing for the fastest shooting experience. I have some other ideas for the ‘main’ screen such as a 2D map with trails where the car has been (or where photo’s were taken). It seems a logical decision to even incorporate a menu to start or stop shooting or see data statistics as well.

I would like to encourage others to come up with other appliances that could be ‘nice’ to have while drive and shooting. Let me give shot: ‘cute girl tag’-button.