First week in IHPC ( 15 - 24 Oct)

This is the first week of our internship and it also Fusionopolis Official Opening. Therefore, there is alot of project show at the lobby. These projects ,which were done by A*STAR, were real cool. The project that interest me was the robotic Lion Dance and robotic Server. The robot lion dance can dance together with the drum rhythm and THE MOVEMENT REALLY LOOKS REAL!!. The robot Server is able to detect objects around it and it would serve drink to the people around it and EVEN CHAT WITH THEM. ISN'T IT AMAZING ???

I would say internship at IHPC is very fun. Having nice environment and friendly colleagues whom teach and help us alot in our work. This really gave us a great working environment, making us always looking forward to each day of work. Our work is real interesting and challenging. Each day, we research and work on different stuffs.

Basically, what we have done on the first week :

Researching on

• linux
  


• open source
  


• distribution
  


• OS Licences GPL/BSD
  


• Linus Trovalds/ Richard Stallman
  


• Bill Gates

Installation Linux Fedora9 into a computer , VM ware into our own desktop and opencv and other neccassary documents.Of Course, we also try to run install web camera into our desktop and run Lightdraw project. Wilson and I were the "LUCKY" ones because we had iSight install in our computers but how are we going to run the iSight which was on Mac to run in Linux?? Good question. We spent one whole to debug and finally it works!!.

Also, we watched Pirates of the silicon valley. That was a great movie, I really enjoyed watching it. It show about the history of IT, how Apple developed macintosh and Mircosoft, Bill Gates, he was a great driver!! you would understand what I meant if you watched this movie...

On friday, we were told that we will need to develop a simple game using C++ and open cv that will be integrate with Lightdraw for the next time weeks. Therefore, we need to come out with a game and proposal to kevin how this game is going to work. Each of us will be working individually on our own idea.