Finally gotten a chance to start the automashield for the goliath project. But I already I see a few problems.

1. Should really use microUSB from now on. MiniUSB tooks gigantic compared to the tiny microUSB.
2. My initial plan was to power the beagleboard from the shield (so 7-12V comes into shield, which powers the shield/netduino, but also sends over 5V to the beagleboard), but I realized there is no 5V out to the BB * sigh *
3. Ordered the wrong regulator for the shield, so now I need to rig up something on a tiny board. Not terrible, but not as nice.

Also, I need to stop sending out boards at 5 in the morning. This thing could have been a lot prettier. Meh. Either way, it will work for now. Possibly order another board if the rest of this works ok. But for now… pitchers!

Need to get this thing done by the end of the week. In the meanwhile, the beagleboard-xm is working out quite nicely. Have OE setup on my laptop now. Should have my own recipe up and running soon. Maybe even get Kinect running with it.

So I have always maintained that bagels are delicious and basically all you need to survive. Nutrition be damned. A poppy seed bagel is possibly the work of god. So I have embarked on the difficult journey of finding a way to make bagels.

Luckily, we live in 2010 and Google Search is amazing. I instantly found one.

About an hour later, I had on my baking tray, two delicious bagels.

Except they weren’t delicious. They were ok. The texture on the outside was nice and they looked right, but I think I messed up the yeast part. The packet didn’t say I had to activate the yeast (literally said you can mix into dry ingredients), but apparently I did anyway (bastards). Going to try instant yeast or maybe baking powder for the Beta version.

The C# wrapper for libfreenect is now working at 30FPS for both depth and RGB/IR. [[[more]]] Currently, it only works in linux as the libfreenect base libraries don’t work very well in win32 yet. The current code is up at https://github.com/lostincake/libfreenect/tree/csharp_wrapper.

If you are on Ubuntu, get mono (sudo apt-get install mono) and try it out! It should technically work in any linux distributions. Have feedback? question? Feel free to send em to my email (adityagaddam at gmail) or leave a comment!