The Virtual Reality Peripheral Network (VRPN) was developed at UNC Chapel Hill by Russ Taylor and has been widely adopted in industry and academia, receiving contributions from scores of developers and device manufacturers. This cross-platform, multi-device interface forms the basis for device interaction in OSVR.
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RedBud Labs: Blood Clotting Diagnostics
ReliaSolve co-founded and continues to work with Redbud Labs to develop control systems and analytical tools to determine clotting time, stiffness, and other characteristics of blood clots in custom microrheometry systems. Current work involves porting the Windows-laptop-based control system to run in an embedded Linux board within the next-generation clot analyzer and extending the single-channel […]
AQT: Accelerated X-Ray calculations
ReliaSolve worked with Applied Quantum Technologies on a brief project from March-May 2016 to accelerate maximum-likelihood calculations to solve for the objects causing a specific pattern due to Bragg scattering in prototype X-ray screening machines for airport baggage. The original OpenCV-based calculations were several orders of magnitude too slow to be useful in the field. Through the […]
Setting up WordPress on a server
This post assumes that you’ve already gotten a web server running and redirected a domain (or subdomain) name to it. It walks you through installing and running a WordPress site on that server. Along the way, we’ll be installing PHP and MySQL, which means that the server can also be used for the other things […]
Forwarding email addresses in your domain
Once you have purchased a domain, you probably want to set up at least a catch-all account so that email sent to addresses at that domain come to you. Step 1: Choosing email addresses Even if you want individual email addresses on your domain, you probably want to set up role-based email addresses that can […]
Setting up a web server on AWS
This post will walk you through the process of running a web server on Amazon Web Services. There are several other cloud-service providers that will also let you do this, along with web-hosting sites. I’m describing AWS because it is the one I’m familiar with and will be able to help you with if you’re […]
Mark Breneman on Git
Mark Breneman, the mentor coordinator for Urbana ’15, has put together some information on using Git to collaborate on projects involving shared files. He made a short “Why use Git?” YouTube video describing how it helps you organize the development of a web page, and he found a 3-minute “How to fork, clone, change, and […]
Better way to purchase and redirect a domain
Often, picking a project name seems to boil down to “find a .COM domain name that hasn’t been taken and name it that.” There should be much more to it than that, but this is a part of it. It is fairly easy to buy a domain name and point it at your favorite host, […]
Purchasing and redirecting a web page
(This post has been superceded by a newer one that shows an easier way.) Often, picking a project name seems to boil down to “find a .COM domain name that hasn’t been taken and name it that.” There should be much more to it than that, but this is a part of it. It is […]
Creating a Github organization and inviting members
Github is an online collaborative project-management site that provides free hosting for open-source, public projects and that can be used to manage private projects (which involves a monthly fee). It is the recommended project management system for the projects at Urbana ’15. Step 1: Get an account Organizations within Github are created by first logging in […]