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2017 ¤ 2020 journey with exciting Vresh & Tag-ya

In 2017, I have decided to accept the offer of CTO & Partner in a startup called Vrenetic. It all started in Los Angeles as a vision of two movie producers from Hollywood - Roland Emmerich and Marco Weber. At that time the…

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Jetson Xavier AGX with 20Gbits bandwidth for USB-3.0 devices

If you wonder how to significantly extended the USB-3.0 capabilities of your Jetson Xavier AGX then the answer is a PCIe card with dedicated 5Gbits channels and extra power input. I have found the product from StarTech (PEXUSB3S44V) which includes…

X-Cores from Jetson Xavier AGX

New Jetson Xavier AGX with 32GB RAM and compute capability of 7.2 ! It delivers 32 TOPS for AI with its amazing X-Cores architecture! Flash Jetson OS - issue Unfortunately, I have experienced problems with loading JetPack 4.4.1 into Xavier…

RealSense D455 Stereo Camera from Intel

The new arrival in my home-lab. The Intel RealSense D455 stereo camera - just freshly released. It's made well and works out of the box. Next week will be testing the accuracy of the depth map and also the quality…

Flow from PlumeLabs. Air Quality Sensor

One great addition to my life is the Flow - a small, portable, nice looking air quality sensor. I use it already for more than a year, and I'm honestly super happy with that product. This works absolutely seamlessly with…

Future of AI driven Virtual Try-On

Since the beginning of summer 2020, I'm involved in a pretty unique project in the area of the fashion industry. To be more specific, it's the technology for supporting the virtual try-on for both: online and offline shopping! You might…

Coral TPU Edge with Mendel

Another amazing product you need in your home-lab. The performance (versus price) of that unit is exceptional. See more at Coral. After a challenging flashing process (using Mendel linux), the unit finally worked. However, if your board was manufactured before…

Red Pitaya Lab with FPGA

Red Pitaya has been already released many years ago and was somewhat not used by me for a couple of years. However, I decided to give it a second life. It's a pretty advanced ecosystem of applications based on FPGA…

ZED-2 AI Stereo Camera

In a few words... this is a great camera and ecosystem (you need) if you start the prototyping phase of the product in the early stage. Stereolabs delivers a solid CUDA enabled SDK with plenty of examples, wrappers, and integrations.

Moved to Barcelona

[2020/Q3] Quick update Last decade (in the world without COVID-19), I have shared my time between Los Angeles, London, Warsaw, Kyiv, and Beijing (see 2017-2020). In the new reality of 2020+, I have decided to move south of Europe and…

Book: The Nature of Code

During the Covid-19 lockdown, there is a lot of time for reading. There was a book on my shelf since 2013 which I did approach multiple times, but never lucky enough to take it properly and seriously. However, there is…

Art 3D/VR challenge – waiting for camera

Introduction I was researching the right cameras for very long time. The market is full of products on every level: I have found a plenty of producers and I did research on following: This is my very abstract drawing of…

Say hello to Chihuahua-VR box project

What is that? As you can find on my blog (tag: VR) I have been working for few weeks on the 3D/VR real-time platform for streaming and communication. The main goal is to find the cutting edge technology which would allow…

Art 3D/VR challenge – a star has arrived

Finally, the Jetson TX1 has arrived; to buy one in Europe it took me at least 4 weeks more than expected, but let's see what we can squeeze out of this tiny Nvidia's baby... Booted, upgraded, connected to Wifi, tested…

Art 3D/VR challenge - more parts

A very interesting audio device has arrived today. This is USB2.0 audio card based on chipset from C-Media Electronics Inc. which supports stereo output and input with sampling 44.1k and 48k. Tested, it works with Linux kernel 3.19 out of…

Art 3D/VR challenge – cameras and sensors mount

I have designed a very first prototype of camera mount which could be used in the VR project. It is very rough construction, but the idea is that: Below some photos of my design. There is still missing camera, servo…