A Comprehensive Guide to Installing and Configuring OpenCV 2.4.2 on Ubuntu

This guide takes you from a clean Ubuntu install to a working installation of OpenCV 2.4.1.

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Installing Ubuntu With Real Time Patches On The PandaBoard

I just posted a tutorial on the Silicon Valley HomeBrew Robotics Club Wiki entitled Installing Ubuntu With Real Time Patches On The PandaBoard. In addition to instruction for installing Ubuntu from scratch, which is also described in my recent post on ozbotz.org, the tutorial explains how to compile a new kernel from source and test the latency of the OS.

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Install Ubuntu On A PandaBoard In Less Than 15 Minutes

This brief tutorial explains how to install Ubuntu on a PandaBoard. The procedure works with either the server version of the desktop version of Ubuntu.

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OpenCV Installation Troubleshooting Guide

This guide lists solutions for problems you might encounter when installing OpenCV and its dependencies. Many of the problems are related to using webcams. This guide is a companion guide to “A Comprehensive Guide to Installing and Configuring OpenCV 2.3 on Ubuntu.”

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A Comprehensive Guide to Installing and Configuring OpenCV 2.3.1 on Ubuntu

This guide takes you from a clean Ubuntu install to a working installation of OpenCV 2.3.1.

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Compiled Kernel Files For Chumby Falconwing Version 1.0.7 Build 1.0.3454

Need to manually update your Chumby One to Falconwing version 1.0.7 build 1.0.3454 but don’t want to build the kernel yourself? Use the files included in this post!

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Enable the Chumby Keyboard Hack Manually

This tip shows you how to enable the Chumby keyboard hack manually.

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Two Workarounds To Try if Your Chumby Stop Responding to ssh Commands

When I use ssh to access my Chumby from my Windows 7 machine, the shell stops responding after about 30 minutes. After a bit of searching, I discovered that other people have this problem too. In this post I summarize what I found, and I provide two techniques to work around this problem.

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