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Comment Re:no engineering (Score 1) 65

thygate, we are a team of 3 developers, who converts a draft idea to first batch in about 1,5 years. Reason of developing was easy - we did not find appropriate solution. Here's short video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38Uc1ttnmOQ, where I'm explain main idea. Please mention it is OLD video (Jan 2013), but main idea of a project still the same. Here we are at github: https://github.com/virt2real In Russia we try to make crowdfund and obtained about 50% of needed sum. We add our own money to make first batch of 1000 pcs. And we are fully broken our heads while trying to port all to modern kernel 3.9 now. We no need advertisement or money. I just contacted Rick Lehrbaum to ask for help - we are just enthusiasts and now we have not enougt power to finalize linux part of a project.

Comment Re:no engineering (Score 1) 65

Are you talking about a car driving or about virt2real board? We did not plan to make this car commercial. We are hardware developers and make a lot of funny and a serious projects (last one weights about 4 tons). But this car, unfortunately for us (yep, it's true), the only project highlighted outside Russia in English.

Comment Re:Drones, Anyone? (Score 1) 65

We created our solution as a "toolkit" for adding a internet remote-control and observation functions to any device, starting from coffemachine and up to giant human-like robots. :-) As for aerial experiments - for planes it is possible to use analogue video only, because delays like 0,1 sec is critical. virt2real allows you, for example, capture a digital image, than add additional information vai OSD, and after that give this signal to analogue transmitter. WiFi, even with a booster, is not a good choice for a hard-real-time systems.

Comment Re:Big R/C car (Score 1) 65

Yes, we did right this - it was a proof of concept. And, you see, we expected to hear from other geeks and enthusiast "hey guys, but we did it another way - let's compare our solutions". But instead we received comparison with commercial cars, Google Car and so on. We will be glad to talk with a people who have a real results. :-)

Comment Re:no engineering (Score 1) 65

Wow, looks like it's a hollywar! You see this project was just a fun for us. Usually we control some smaller things like RC cars, compters and boats. When we did a Bond Car it was just a fun at first, and the second it was a test for our platform. But most of readers says "Hey!!! It's extremely dangerous!!! It needs a lots of tests!!! How we can allow such a cars appear on our highways!!!" etc. Are you serious?

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