RoadNarrows LLC
2012
Volume 8
LOVELAND, COLORADO, 24 October 2012 -
The 2012 Thompson Robotics EXPO is being held October 27th at Loveland High School, from 10 to 2:30. RoadNarrows supports the work of non-profit Action Works for developing STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) programs in Colorado. RoadNarrows will be exhibiting several robotic educational products such as Robotis(TM) OLLO kits and Dongbu Robotics Genibo(TM).
About RoadNarrows, LLC
Based in Loveland, Colorado, RoadNarrows is a privately held robotics and technologies company founded in 2002. RoadNarrows sells and provides technical support for some of the most popular robotic product lines used by the academic and research community world-wide. RoadNarrows Research & Development develops intelligent peripheral components and accessories, including cameras, mobile sensor architectures, and open-source platform software to give robotics researchers advanced, time and resource saving tools.
For more information, visit:
www.roadnarrows.com
LOVELAND, COLORADO, 01 June 2012 -
RoadNarrows LLC has recently been interviewed by 3 different news agencies: Northern Colorado Business Report, Innovationews.com, and Minnesota's CBS channel 4 news. In addition, the local National Public Radio station KUNC featured an interview talking about RoadNarrows. Finally, "Robot" magazine (July/August 2012) includes a new product announcment for RoadNarrows' Media and Camera Packs.
For more information, visit:
www.ncbr.com/article/20120601/EDITION/12539975
innovationews.com/clusters/robotics-cluster-a-possibility-for-northern-colorado/
www.kunc.org/post/wide-road-robotics-maker-roadnarrows
minnesota.cbslocal.com/2012/05/17/robotics-and-automation-conference-held-in-st-paul/
botmag.com
About RoadNarrows, LLC
Based in Loveland, Colorado, RoadNarrows is a privately held robotics and technologies company founded in 2002. RoadNarrows sells and provides technical support for some of the most popular robotic product lines used by the academic and research community world-wide. RoadNarrows Research & Development develops intelligent peripheral components and accessories, including cameras, mobile sensor architectures, and open-source platform software to give robotics researchers advanced, time and resource saving tools.
For more information, visit:
www.roadnarrows.com
LOVELAND, COLORADO, 25 March 2012 -
RoadNarrows LLC announces the release of the RoadNarrows Camera Pack (RNCP) for quick prototyping of open-source embedded vision applications using OpenCV on an embedded Linux kernel.
RoadNarrows has recently been migrating their open-source robotic vision work from gumstix® Overo COM's to OveroSTORM COM's, and the improvement in performance has been impressive. The RoadNarrows Camera Pack (RNCP) uses an e-con Systems 3.2 MP Omnivision camera, a gumstix® Tobi expansion board, and a gumstix® Overo FireSTORM with OpenCV.
RoadNarrows has been using multiple RNCP systems in a networked configuration on a mobile robot platform for real-time vision processing and mapping. Part of this research work has been funded by the National Institutes of Standards and Technology under a Small Business Innovation Research award titled "An Extensible 6DOF Vision Framework for Accurate Location and Pose Estimation in a Scene Graph Context".
The RNCP systems wirelessly stream camera video in H.264 format and can be monitored by a host computer, which may do additional processing such as point cloud determination using GPU technology for 3D environment analysis.
"There was a clear improvement between the quality of the video between the Overo Fire and the Overo FireSTORM. The Overo FireSTORM streaming video was less pixelated, and we were able to transmit at a higher resolution.", Kim Wheeler, CEO of RoadNarrows LLC comments. "I was also impressed at the very simple migration path. It really only took a short time to move from the OMAP 3530 Applications Processor to the DM3730. After receiving a small driver update from e-con Systems for camera support, and a few days of system testing, we were confident that we could migrate to the new COMs without any significant changes to our platforms. The demo applications ran on the new Gumstix Overo STORM COMs with no change."
The RNCP consists of the following components assembled and tested:
For more information, visit:
www.roadnarrows.com/store/roadnarrows-camera-pack.html
About RoadNarrows, LLC
Based in Loveland, Colorado, RoadNarrows is a privately held robotics and technologies company founded in 2002. RoadNarrows sells and provides technical support for some of the most popular robotic product lines used by the academic and research community world-wide. RoadNarrows Research & Development develops intelligent peripheral components and accessories, including cameras, mobile sensor architectures, and open-source platform software to give robotics researchers advanced, time and resource saving tools. RoadNarrows has been a Value-Added Reseller (VAR) of Gumstix products since 2009.
For more information, visit:
www.roadnarrows.com
About Gumstix, Inc
Founded in 2003, Gumstix, Inc. of San Jose California develops, manufactures and markets tiny Linux® computers and related products to customers located in more than 50 countries worldwide. Design engineers integrate Gumstix technology into power management, location sensing, data collection, time and attendance, military, security, and robotic applications.
For more information, visit:
www.gumstix.com
About e-con Systems, Inc.
e-con Systems is an end-to-end product development services company with a strong technology expertise in cameras. e-con Systems offers a variety of camera solutions like reference designs, camera modules with customizable lenses, camera driver development, image quality testing, image tuning and camera-based product design services. e-con systems currently has two camera module solutions designed for compatibility with Gumstix® Overo COMs.
For more information, visit:
www.e-consystems.com
LOVELAND, COLORADO, 21 January 2012 -
RoadNarrows held an Open House on Friday, January 20, 2012 in celebration of their 10 year anniversary and recent 1,100 square foot facility expansion. Attendance was estimated to be 100 persons. RoadNarrows thanks all who attended for dropping by and saying hello. Visitors came as far as Boston, and across the Front Range. Thanks to Grimm Brother's Brewery, Main Street Catering, and Big Beaver Brewery for their generous support.
For images of the party, visit the 10th Year Anniversary Album on RoadNarrows Facebook page:
www.facebook.com/RoadNarrows