Tonight, I’ll go for a very simple hack: connect a webcam, detect motions and stream a live feed over HTTP. Not sure how it’ll fit with Project “Jarvis”, but who knows … Hardware First things first: the hardware. For some reasons, the only webcam that I had was an old Apple iSight. You know, the[…]
Here comes another step in the conception on project “Jarvis”. For once, let’s not be too geeky. I feel artsy today. I’ll focus on the GUI and fire up Inskcape et the Gimp. Yeah, still a bit geeky, I know… Jarvis-like GUI Let’s try the first idea take comes to my mind: create an[…]
During the last steps, voice recording, speech-to-text and text-to-speech feasibility was studied. Now enters another difficicult part: the brain ! The last steps implied the use of external services for voice-recognition and text-to-speech capabilities. When it comes to Jarvis’ brain, the idea is twofold: Onboard answer engine: part of the analysis will be done onboard[…]
In my previous post, I conducted a few experiments with speech recognition via Google’s Speech API and get enough results to push the project “Jarvis” a bit further. Now it is time for Jarvis to speak ! Text-To-Speech engines There are many “Text-To-Speech” engines already packaged for the Rasberry Pi. Namely: espeak: eSpeak is[…]
Adding Siri to both my old iPad 1 and iPhone 4 was a failure 🙁 Jailbreaking went nice, but messing up with SiriPort was a complete disaster, and it took me nearly 2 hours to turn back these devices into something different than a brick. And thus … no SiriProxy for me. But then[…]
Alright. My Raspberry Pi by is set up and delivering AirPrint and AirPlay services. Let’s add few web capabilities. A lightweight configuration: Nginx & SQLite I felt like the usual Apache / MySQL duet might be a little to heavy for my tiny ApplePie. So, I opted for a Nginx / SQLite couple. Everything[…]
Now that “applepie” (my very first Raspberry Pi) is set up, it is time to have a little fun. The first hacks will be to turn the device into a cheap (but nonetheless quite efficient) AirPlay / AirPrint device, while baking a real Apple Pie… Setting up AirPlay First, I hooked up the Raspberry Pi[…]
It’s been two long weeks, but the Rasberry Pi I ordered finally arrived this friday. I’m extremely excited with this tiny thing. Just like messing with my first computer (30 years ago…) or patching a Linux kernel for the first time. Yep, I really do feel like a kid 🙂 Raspberry Pi The Raspberry[…]
Nope, watching the Olympic Games wasn’t an option. Time to upgrade this old blog to a decent version of wordpress. It was about time… Migrating to the latest version of wordpress (from such an obsolete one) wasn’t exactly a piece of cake. I had, of course, to migrate the theme, but also rewrite a few[…]
My new LED TV and Blu-Ray player are DLNA compatible. Since the Blu-Ray player came with wifi connectivity out of the box, I tried to connect it with my GNU/Linux Home Server. In the end, it worked well, but the process wasn’t as easy as I expected… My main devices are interconnected (more or[…]
Thanks to daylight saving time, I woke up (very) early. This is quite unusual for a Sunday morning… This gave me time to finish up the high resolution icon for Google Nexus One I started some times ago. device-phone-google-nexus-one.tar.gz (SVG,256×256,48×48,32×32,24×24,22×22,16×16) I haven’t got a change to see a real Nexus One yet. I’ve worked from[…]
It’s been freaking cold around here. A huge amount of snow. Buses are stuck, and I had to walk for two hours from work this friday night. I usually don’t mind walking. I actually love to walk. But I heavily fell while helping a girl in the street who was slipping on an icy patch.[…]
I’m trying to fulfill a couple of requests from the Gnome Art request list hosted at Gnome Live!. Here are the first contribution to the “Generic icons for audio device form factors: Headsets, Headphones, ext. Speakers” request. Here are two high resolution icons: a speaker and a subwoofer. Low resolution icons are on their way.[…]
Some icons were asked on the tango-artists mailing list for a GPL3 program that reads e-books. I decided to tackle this task, mostly because I’m on vacation (yeah !) and because I wanted to try my hand on high detail icons and to test the one-canvas workflow. Obviously, this icon would better suit an e-book[…]
It’s been a very (very) busy week-end. Really. I badly needed a break. Here goes a new addition to the tango-styled “penguins collection”. This time, a few more Star Wars characters. tango-penguins-sw.svg (1 single SVG) C3PO et Chewie are missing, but … it’s time to get back to work for a few hours 🙁
As requested, here are two Tango-styled icons for Beastie (FreeBSD mascot) and Puffy (OpenBSD mascot) tango-bsd.svg (1 single SVG) Yes, yes, yes, they both definitely need a bit of improvement… But it’s really getting too late (2:45 am) 😕 I’ll try something later this week.
As a special request from Agnès, here are a few Tango-styled “Lapins crétins” (a.k.a Raving Rabbids). tango-lapins-cretins.svg (1 single SVG) Why is there a serial killer among those silly rabbits ? Well, probably because I’ve just finished seeing the second season of Dexter. Which was just AWESOME :silly:
Here’s a second round of penguins. You’ll find the old ones (slightly updated) and two new sets of Super-Penguins (form Marvel and DC Comics). Marvel Comics (new): tango-penguins-marvel.svg (1 single SVG) DC Comics (new): tango-penguins-dc.svg (1 single SVG) And, the old ones (the licence mess being sorted out): tango-penguins.svg (1 single SVG) Sorry, for now,[…]
For some weird reasons, I drew a lot of penguins recently. Each of them is supposed to represent a member of the software team I’m coaching. tango-penguins.svg (1 single SVG) tango-penguins.tar.gz (1 single SVG + 54 pngs) I’ll try to add more as time goes. Yes, I’m pretending to be the nutty professor… Actually, these[…]
I was asked by Mark Unwin (of Open-AudIT fame) to add the missing SVGs from the generic network icons I published quite some times ago. Quite a bit of them were missing. Then I caught the flu 🙁 . Then I realized I had actually lost the SVGs. Yes, I’m a mess. I knew that[…]
APRIL is a French association for the promotion and defense of Free Software. I’m a proud member of it, even though I wish I could find more time to contribute. Each year, APRIL compaigns to recrute more members. The goal is quite ambitious, but nevetherless crutial: reaching 5000 members. We need more people, voices, talents[…]
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I was asked to draw an icon for the Koala HTTP Server from the opendylan project. Surprisely, it went really quickly (just a couple of hours). Much faster than I thought I could do. Hey, I’m getting used this ! Cool. Hopefully, the guys from opendylan will like like… Meanwhile, here goes the little[…]
Yes, yes, once again, long time and no blog. As usual, I was swamped: too many things to do, too little time… Apart from the municipal campaign and business as usual (which keep me quite busy), I’ve been playing with my iPhone like the kid I’m pretending to be. Since the official SDK has not[…]
Here is a small pack of icons for network documentation. This is the answer to a mail on the tango-artists mailing list … and, well, to my own needs. I’ve been franticly busy for months redesigning the security infrastructure of SNCF‘s nationwide network, and I’m just *sick* of using MS Visio :sick: The icon for[…]
It looks like a Gutsy Gibbon got stuck in my mail box. Thank you Ship It ! Right on time for the upgrade my home server. Cool 🙂 I still have to find a way to upgrade my PowerBook… I guess this should do the trick.
All right, all right, long time no blog 😕 Here goes a small pack of icons for mobile phones: Nokia 6300, 6680, N95 and Motorola V3i. nokia-6300.tar.gz nokia-6680.tar.gz nokia-n95.tar.gz motorola-v3i.tar.gz
Hummm, a new generation of iMacs… Well, I couldn’t resists drawing an icon these newborn babies 😉 computer-apple-imac.tar.gz Edited 08/08/2007: changed the name, since they’re obviously not G5’s… Thanks Matt!
Most of gnome-desktop icons need to be freshened a bit. IIRC, I have seen this great artwork (Tigert’s) since … well pre-1.0 versions of GNOME. It appears that a bug has already been filed (#343570) in GNOME’s Bugzilla. Most of these icons should probably be “killed”. I figured that: Control Center icons can be removed[…]
Finishing up the third edition of “OSources”, the internal Open Source monthly newsletter of the company. This month, apart from the usual hilights of the news from the previous month, we concentrate on major Open Source web frameworks, namely : Details of the whole Java development chain (the newly opened JDK, Eclipse, Tomcat, Struts, Spring,[…]
Woke up (late) this morning and happily discovered in my mail box the disks I had requested from ubuntu only a few weeks ago. Really Nice ! Since my home server was already upgraded to Feisty Fawn a couple of weeks ago, I finished up updating my good old PowerBook. Everything ran smoothly, except for[…]
I have been playing with Asterisk for part of the week-end. It’s been quite fun actually ! The installation on my freshly installed Feitsy server went very smoothly. Within a couple of hours (with the help of the books I just bought) I could: Install the server and build a SIP configuration Create a couple[…]