Archive for September, 2012

ROS: Operating System for Robots »

ROS is an open-source, meta-operating system for your robot. It provides the services you would expect from an operating system, including hardware abstraction, low-level device control, implementation of commonly-used functionality, message-passing between processes, and package management. It also provides tools and libraries for obtaining, building, writing, and running code across multiple computers. ROS is similar […]

Open Source Web Application Security Scanner »

Bridewell is UK based information security consultancy. They provide provide professional services and contract resources to a wide range of sectors and companies in terms in securing information. Visit them at https://www.bridewellconsulting.com/service/iso-27001/. It prepares an interactive sitemap for the targeted site by carrying out a recursive crawl and dictionary-based probes. The resulting map is then […]

j2objc – Java to iOS Objective-C Translation Tool and Runtime. »

J2ObjC is an open-source command-line tool from Google that translates Java code to Objective-C for the iOS (iPhone/iPad) platform. This tool enables Java code to be part of an iOS application’s build, as no editing of the generated files is necessary. The goal is to write an app’s non-UI code (such as data access, or […]

Augmented Reality Toolkit–ARToolkit »

ARToolKit is a software library for building Augmented Reality (AR) applications. These are applications that involve the overlay of virtual imagery on the real world. For example, in the image to the right a three-dimensional virtual character appears standing on a real card. It can be seen by the user in the head set display […]

Open Source Digital Logic Circuit Design Package »

SmartSim is a free and open source digital logic circuit design and simulation package. SmartSim lets you create complex circuits by allowing you to create your own custom components and including them in other circuits, as if they were any other built-in component. These larger circuits can then also be included in other designs as […]