Wednesday, November 16, 2005

Software DVRs

http://www.eaglevision1.com/usb-video-software.htm
http://www.digi-watcher.com/webcam_sys_requirements.htm
http://www.webcamsoft.com/en/wcsa400.html
http://www.grandtec.com/magicguardusb.htm
http://www.orite.com.tw/english/products_ipcam_pt300.htm
http://www.surveillance-spy-cameras.com/dvr-card.htm
http://www.sonerik.com/
http://www.luxriot.com/
http://www.digi-watcher.com/help/multi-cam.htm
http://www.playfulworld.com/
http://playfulworld.kungfudesign.com/index.htm
http://www.vistaimaging.com/vicam3.htm
http://www.gotchanow.com/
http://www.gotchanow.com/text/press.html#anchor777795
http://www.ispq.com/support/guides/video_chat_and_webcam.html
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/webcammonitor.html
http://www.circuitcity.com/ccd/productDetail.do?oid=126504&catOid=-13346&com.broadvision.session.new=Yes&BV_SessionID=@@@@0202501947.1132097833@@@@&BV_EngineID=ccecaddgfdhmmdkcfngcfkmdffhdfli.0
http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=449971&messageID=2042377
http://www.pysoft.com/ActiveWebCamMainpage.htm
http://www.deskshare.com/Resources/articles/wcm_UsingMultipleCameras_MonitorEffectively.aspx
http://www.webcamsoft.com/en/faq/faqdog.html
http://www.everythingusb.com/creative_webcam_live!_motion.html
http://www.everythingusb.com/jaxstream_jaxcam.html
http://www.pcconnection.com/ProductDetail?sku=5691007&SourceID=k22350
http://www.webcam32.com/
http://www.mobileye.com/general.shtml
http://www.idga.org/cgi-bin/templates/document.html?topic=228&event=8626&document=63449&slauID=5&
http://www.advancedimagingpro.com/article/article.jsp?siteSection=3&id=2080

Wednesday, November 09, 2005

RFID

http://www.computerbytesman.com/privacy/cfp2004/index.htm

Multimedia Databases

http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/smith96visualseek.html
http://supportweb.cs.bham.ac.uk/documentation/postgres/manual/jdbc-binary-data.html
http://rad.usuhs.mil/medpix/parent.php3?mode=about
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2002/05/09/webdb2.html
http://www.sitepoint.com/article/watermark-images-php
http://www.codeproject.com/aspnet/image_asp.asp
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/interactive/index.html
http://www.postgresql.org/files/documentation/books/aw_pgsql/node96.html

Automatic Licence Plate Recognition

http://www.dacolian.com/en/downloads/
http://www.licenseplaterecognition.com/
http://www.anpr.net/
http://www.systems.uwaterloo.ca/UnderGrad/Workshop/workshop_liscense.htm
http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/200503/msg00205.html
http://www.russellbeattie.com/notebook/1008202.html
http://www.saic.com/products/transportation/tollvision/
http://www.neuricam.com/main/product.asp?4M=NC6001
http://www.singaporegateway.com/optasia/techinfo.htm
http://www.platerecognition.info/1102.htm
http://www.photocop.com/toll.htm
http://www.startraq.com/pages/stages/star-lpr.htm
http://www.cctv-information.co.uk/constant3/anpr.html
http://vision.cmit.csiro.au/project/stc/
http://www.ino.ca/En/Notre_offre/Vision_artificielle/realisations/OCR.aspx
http://www.trafficgroup.com/services/alpr.html
http://www.machinevisiononline.org/public/articles/archivedetails.cfm?id=1206

Sunday, September 25, 2005

Funnyyyy!!

Tricks with a Zippo lighter gone wrong: http://media.putfile.com/itburns
Circumcision: http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2005/8/4/11376/28612
Boy dumps girl via powerpoint: http://www.toplessprogramming.com/images/wtfbreakup.ppt
Combine Google Earth, VLog Map and video: http://randomshow.com/media/video/20050804a.mov
In-Ear short-term memory device: http://www.core77.com/corehome/2005/07/in-ear-short-term-memory-device.html
The DamnBlog: http://thedamnblog.com/index.php?y=2005&m=07&d=31
Colour Blindness: http://www.toledo-bend.com/colorblind/aboutCB.html
Auction for World Record: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5602048349
Shooting rubber bands: http://members.aol.com/morganbolt/

Colour Blindness

http://www.toledo-bend.com/colorblind/aboutCB.html

Debugging

http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2005/08/11/fixingbugs.html

Sudoku & Games

Sudoku for Kids: http://www.activityvillage.co.uk/sudoku_for_kids.htm
Ancient Sudoku: http://uk.download.games.yahoo.net/liste.php?intIdType=2
How to make Sudoku puzzles (by Nikoli creator of Sudoku): http://www.nikoli.co.jp/puzzles/1/lets_make_sudoku00-e.htm

Sunday, August 14, 2005

Linksys WRT54G

http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20040527.html
http://www.sveasoft.com/
http://www.batbox.org/wrt54g-linux.html
Firmware upgrade from Linksys: http://www1.linksys.com/international/firmware.asp?fwid=207&coid=19
WRT54GS: http://www1.linksys.com/international/product.asp?coid=19&ipid=533

Intel PXA270 Resources

Prolificx Telematics Solutions using PXA272: http://www.prolificx.com/
Maemo for Nokia's Internet Tablet device: http://www.maemo.org/
Intel Product Brief on PXA27x family: http://www.intel.com/design/pca/prodbref/253820.htm
Open PINO robot platform: http://www.symbio.jst.go.jp/~yamasaki/
Toradex SODIMM PXA270 Colibri processor card & Evaluation Board: http://www.toradex.com/
PCBFabExpress Specifications who can do 8 layer PCBs: http://www.pcbfabexpress.com/preview_specs.jsp
Porting Linux: http://ftp.linux.org.uk/pub/linux/arm/people/xscale/mainstone/blob/06-21-2005/
http://www.toby-churchill.org/balloon/Mainstone/
http://www.linuxgazette.com/node/9786
http://softwareforums.intel.com/ids/board/message?board.id=43&message.id=474&jump=true
http://softwareforums.intel.com/ids/board/message?board.id=43&message.id=603
http://softwareforums.intel.com/ids/board/message?board.id=43&message.id=474&jump=true
Microsoft MSDN Site:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/wcehardware5/html/wce50howhowtosetupacepc.asp
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/wcehardware5/html/wce50howhowtousebspforintelmainstoneiidevelopmentplatform.asp
http://msdn.microsoft.com/mobility/windowsmobile/howto/windowsmobile5/install/default.aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/embedded/getstart/basics/default.aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/wcehardware5/html/wce50constandarddevelopmentboarddesign.asp
Microsoft Windows Automotive: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnanchor/html/anch_WinAuto42.asp?frame=true

Thursday, July 28, 2005

China Contacts - Car Camera

【 Company Name 】BEIJING DISHU SCIENCE AND TRADE CO LTD
【 Director 】Han Yushuang Function: General Manager【 Address 】Room 701, Building 6, Xinqidian Jiayuan, No.5, Changchunqiao Lu, Haidian Qu, Beijing, China. (Post code: 100089)【 Telephone 】(010)82561058【 Fax 】(010)64268372【 E - mail 】dishuhys@263.net
【Organization Type 】Company【Ownership or Grade】Private-Ownership
【 Business 】Camera, colour video car backing system, radio launcher, black and white quad treater, colour quad treater, black and white standard quad treater, colour standard quad treater, black and white compression treater, colour compression treater, black and white & colour compression treater, computer net, public telephone net.【 Key Words 】Computer network【 SIC Code 】7373

China Contacts - Video Security Camera

【 Company Name 】H.P.B.ELECTRO-OPTICS CO.,LTD.
【 Address 】268, Gushu Yilu, Gushu Cun, Xixiang Zhen, Baoan Qu, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China. (Post code: 518126)【 Telephone 】(0755)27481146【 Fax 】(0755)27481147
【 Year Found 】19850227【Organization Type 】Enterprise【Ownership or Grade】Private-Ownership
【 Business 】Mainly undertaking designing, development, production and assembly of CMOS SENSOR, PC Camera, DSC.Scanner, Security System, Video Phone, Barcode Reader and other photoelectric model group.【 Key Words 】Photoelectric device【 SIC Code 】3674

Chinese contacts

【 Company Name 】GUANGZHOU HALISI COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.
【 Director 】Huang Wensheng Function: Manager【 Sales Manager 】Li Desheng【 Address 】2/F, North Unit, Nantian Mansion, Jiangong Road, Tianhe Industrial Park, Zhongshan Dadao, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China. (Post code: 510665)【 Telephone 】(020)85576268【 Fax 】(020)85579133,85579263【 Homepage 】http://www.gzharris.com【 E - mail 】info@harris.guangzhou.gd.cn;info@gzharris.com;support@gzharris.com
【 Year Found 】1995【Organization Type 】Enterprise【Ownership or Grade】Joint-Venture;Joint-Venture - Hong Kong【 Empolyees 】325【 Engineers 】199【 Production Area】1136【 Reg. Capital 】10000 (Ten thousand RMB)【 Assets 】325 (Ten thousand RMB)【 Sales 】11679 (Ten thousand RMB)
【 Product Name 】Computer net; Computer network; Computer peripheral equipment; Digital dispatch system; E-Star video surveillance system; GPM power monitor and management system; Integrated digital switching platform; Monitoring control system; Network management; Network management system; Optical fiber network; Portable test equipment &tools; Satellite communication system; Statistical time-division multiplexer; Switch-board; Telephone switchboard; Vioce over IP equipment; Voice path testing platform; Voice-enabled system【 Business 】Harris network management system,Voice recognition product,H20-20 comprehensive digital exchange system,DDS-200digital control systen,IP phone,Hand hold telecommunication testing equipment.【 Key Words 】Computer network; Monitoring control system; Telephone switchboard; Satellite communication system; Computer peripheral equipment; Network management system【 SIC Code 】7373; 3663; 3661; 3577


【 Company Name 】SHENZHEN PROMATIC SECURITY SYSTEMS CO., LTD.
【 Director 】Liu Jianlong Function: Manager【 Address 】2B, Building F3.8, Tianjing Building, Tianan Shumacheng, Futian Qu, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China. (Post code: 518040)【 Telephone 】(0755)83300003【 Fax 】(0755)83428395【 Homepage 】http://www.promatic.com.cn【 E - mail 】sale@promatic.com.cn;service@promatic.com.cn;order@promatic.com.cn
【 Year Found 】1998【Organization Type 】Enterprise【Ownership or Grade】Joint-Venture;Joint-Venture - Hong Kong【 Empolyees 】150【 Engineers 】13【 Production Area】1200【 Reg. Capital 】1000 (Ten thousand RMB)【 Sales 】3000 (Ten thousand RMB)
【 Brand 】PROMATIC【 Product Name 】Access control system; Alarm system; Antenna; Bottle safer; Card reader; CCTV system; Commercial safety appliance; Communication equipment; Computer management system; Controller of two defense areas; Controlling keyboard; Decipherer; Decoder; Detecting instrument; Electronic article surveillance sensor; Handhold tester; Hard tag; Keyboard; Label; Labels; Lock utensil; Releaser; Safe box for CD/VCD/Cigarette safe holder; Video camera【 Business 】1,Supply all these systems and equipment;2,Supply a complete solving scheme of commerce anti-spoilage for the retail trade.3,Supply a complete solving scheme of security systems for you.【 Key Words 】Computer management system; Alarm system; Video camera; Detecting instrument; Keyboard; Labels; Antenna; Decoder; Communication equipment; Commercial safety appliance; Lock utensil【 SIC Code 】7372; 3669; 3651; 3829; 3971; 2759; 3679; 3663; 366; 3589; 3429


Company Name 】CHENGDU SHUGUANG OPTICAL FIBER NETWORK CO., LTD.
【 Director 】Zeng Dazhang【 Sales Manager 】Liu Xia【 Address 】4/F, Building 2, No.3, Gaopeng Road(E), High-New Zone, Chengdu, Sichuan, China. (Post code: 610041)【 Telephone 】(028)85183812,85172764,85184290,85183113【 Fax 】(028)85188954【 E - mail 】huang-xd@elong.com;sgscb@mail.sc.cninfo.net
【Organization Type 】Enterprise【Ownership or Grade】Joint-Stock【 Empolyees 】124【 Engineers 】94【 Assets 】140.7 (Ten thousand RMB)【 Sales 】693.5 (Ten thousand RMB)
【 Product Name 】Adapter; Alarm device; Audio frequency switcher; Automatic control system; Autoput toll system; Cash register; Character adder; Communication equipment; Communication material; Communication system; Computer; Computer management system; Control equipment; Data transmission equipment; Decipherer; Decoder; Electro-optical terminal; Highway traffic surveillance system; Interface device; Modem; Monitoring control system; Optical terminal; Optical transmitters; Photoelectric device; Porcelain product; Receiving set; Repeater; Router; Satellite TV receiving equipment; Telephone equipment; Television system; Television transmission system; Transmitter; TV conference system; Video frequency transfer switch; Video switcher【 Key Words 】Data transmission equipment; Porcelain product; Computer management system; Communication system; Transmitter; Alarm device; Telephone equipment; Television system; Communication material; Electro-optical terminal; Communication equipment; Repeater; Automatic control system; Photoelectric device; Computer; Modem; Control equipment; Receiving set; Monitoring control system; Video switcher; Decoder; Interface device; Cash register; Television transmission system; Satellite TV receiving equipment【 SIC Code 】3571; 3269; 7372; 3663; 3669; 3661; 3651; 366; 3823; 3674; 3577; 3578


【 Company Name 】BEIJING MULTITV MULTIMEDIA SCIENCE AND TECH. CO. LTD
【 Director 】Ma Xin Function: General Manager【 Sales Manager 】Xu Qingyin【 Address 】No.19, Zhongguancun Road, Haidian District, Beijing, China. (Post code: 100080)【 Telephone 】(010)62632233-129,62641613,62611612【 Fax 】(010)62632233【 Homepage 】http://www.multitv.com.cn【 E - mail 】xuqy@multitv.com.cn;xingzhe@multitv.com
【 Year Found 】1996【Organization Type 】Research Inistitute;Enterprise【Ownership or Grade】Private-Ownership【 Empolyees 】80【 Engineers 】75【 Reg. Capital 】30 (Ten thousand RMB)
【 Brand 】MULTITV【 Product Name 】Audio-visual aid; Communication system; Computer; Computer application software; Computer software; Control system; Display equipment; Monitoring control system; Monitoring system; Multimedia system; Network video conference system; Traffic surveillance and control system【 Key Words 】Communication system; Computer; Display equipment; Computer application software; Audio-visual aid; Multimedia system; Monitoring system; Monitoring control system; Computer software; Control system【 SIC Code 】3663; 3571; 3651; 7372; 3699; 3823


【 Company Name 】HUNAN SOUTH CHINA OPTOELECTRONIC (GROUP) CO LTD【 Past Name 】HUNAN SOUTH CHINA OPTOELECTRONIC INSTRUMENT FACTORY HUADING CO
【 Director 】Xiao Wenyu Function: Manager, Legal Person【Purchasing Manager】Li Zhihui【 Sales Manager 】Xiao Wenyu【 Address 】P.O.Box 55, Changde, Hunan, China. (Post code: 415007)【 Telephone 】(0736)7291341【 Fax 】(0736)7291343
【 Year Found 】197004【Organization Type 】Enterprise【Ownership or Grade】State-Run【 Empolyees 】65【 Engineers 】29【 Total Area 】880000【 Production Area】220000【 Reg. Capital 】8000 (Ten thousand RMB)【 Assets 】3000 (Ten thousand RMB)【 Sales 】1500 (Ten thousand RMB)【 Profits 】2400 (Ten thousand RMB)【 IM/EX License 】 Yes【 Foreign Earnings 】300 (Ten thousand US$)
【 Brand 】AND【 Product Name 】B/W video camera; Chinese word timed generator; Color video camera; Computer application software; Computer controlled keyboard; Computer equipment; Computer keyboard; Computer management system; Controller; Decoding controller; Display equipment; Door and window part; Fingerprint door access dystem; Finger-print equipment; GPS satellite localizing system; Infrared lamp; Lighting fixture; MMCCTV security surveillance system; Omnibearing cloud table; Photographic equipment; Road and bridge charging system; Safety detecting instrument; Satellite positioning system; Television equipment; Video balancing transmission system; Video camera; Video door police; Warning equipment【 Key Words 】Controller; Warning equipment; Television equipment; Photographic equipment; Door and window part; Video camera; Satellite positioning system; Computer keyboard; Computer equipment; Finger-print equipment; Display equipment; Lighting fixture; Computer application software; Safety detecting instrument; Computer management system【 SIC Code 】3823; 3669; 3651; 3861; 3972; 3812; 3577; 3571; 3829; 3645; 7372


【 Company Name 】HUANAN OPTOELECTRONIC INSTRUMENT FACTORY
【 Director 】Xiao Wenyu Function: Director【 Sales Manager 】Bu Wei【 Address 】P.O.Box. 55, Changde, Hunan, China. (Post code: 415105)【 Telephone 】(0736)7291168,7291380【 Fax 】(0736)7291343【 Homepage 】http://www.changde.gov.cn/qyzx/huanan.htm;http://www.cd.hn.cninfo.net/huanan/【 E - mail 】hncc@public.cd.hn.cn
【 Year Found 】1987【Organization Type 】Enterprise【Ownership or Grade】State-Run【 Empolyees 】3000【 Engineers 】1000【 Total Area 】880000【 Production Area】880000【 Reg. Capital 】8000 (Ten thousand RMB)【 Assets 】8000 (Ten thousand RMB)【 Sales 】20000 (Ten thousand RMB)【 Profits 】187 (Ten thousand RMB)【 Foreign Earnings 】1086 (Ten thousand US$)
【 Brand 】AND【 Product Name 】Alarm system; Athletic goods; Audio-visual aid; Automobile part; Bar code application system; Bar code printer; CCD video camera; Chlorine dioxide broad spectrum sterilizing equipment; Chlorine dioxide broad-spectrum leveling instrument; Clamp; Color video camera; Communication material; Computer; Computer application software; Computer management system; Computer network system; Control system; Controller; Decoding controller; Display equipment; Door and window part; Electric fan; Electric welder; Finger-print equipment; Food processing equipment; GPS locate systems; GPS satellite localizing system; Hospital sterilizer; Houseold multi-function rice thresher; Intelligent traffic control system; Lathe multi-function clamp; Level instrument; Management system for intelligent quarters; MMCCTV security surveillance system; Monitoring control system; Multi-function rice mill; Multimedia system; Multi-media teaching system; Network system; Physical exercise equipment; Picture phone; Printer; Remote monitoring control system; Rice milling machine; Safety and protection system; Safety detecting instrument; Satellite positioning system; Spectacle lens; Spectacle lenses; Taohuayuan electric fan; Telephone set; Video balancing transmission system; Video camera; Video door police; Video phone; Video telephone equipment; Welding machine【 Business 】CCD video camera, image portraiture system, TII-1000 micro-graphic searching machine, precision optical instrument, test instrument, Taohuayuan series electric fan, DCJ series laser range finder, CYS series digital display, variable parallel light tube, sight measurement instrument, multiple counting instrument, heating-pipe exchanger and variable old sight, near-sight, colour, Bait optical spectacles【 Key Words 】Clamp; Electric fan; Communication material; Automobile part; Multimedia system; Finger-print equipment; Display equipment; Controller; Spectacle lens; Rice milling machine; Level instrument; Monitoring control system; Computer application software; Printer; Video camera; Control system; Hospital sterilizer; Athletic goods; Network system; Welding machine; Door and window part; Computer; Alarm system; Safety detecting instrument; Telephone set; Video telephone equipment; Satellite positioning system; Computer management system; Bar code application system; Food processing equipment; Audio-visual aid【 SIC Code 】3429; 3634; 3663; 3714; 7372; 3829; 3651; 3823; 3851; 3556; 3577; 3842; 3949; 7373; 3548; 3972; 3571; 3669; 3661; 3812; 3699

Saturday, June 11, 2005

Rear-Vision Cameras

NRMA Rear-Vision Safety Report: http://www.nrma.com.au/pub/nrma/motor/car-research/reversing-visibility/index.shtml

4WD rear vision survey comment: http://www.rancho.com.au/comment.htm
Devices to reduce risk of reversing: http://www1.tpgi.com.au/users/mpaine/driveways.html
Road safety web link: http://www1.tpgi.com.au/users/mpaine/roadsafe.html
Rear Seat Vision: http://www.jcwhitney.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/Product?storeId=10101&Pr=p_Product.CATENTRY_ID%3A2008391&productId=2008391&langId=-1&catalogId=10107
Santeca Electronics: http://www.santeca.com/bse.htm
Cradle Technologies have a reference design that could be used for standalone DVR: http://www.cradle.com/products/rds_reference_designs.shtml
Omnivision Technologies make a sub-$30 automotive camera: http://news.moneycentral.msn.com/ticker/article.asp?Symbol=US:OVTI&Feed=BW&Date=20050418&ID=4747394, and http://www.letsgodigital.org/en/news/articles/story_3104.html
Omnivision Technologies: http://www.ovt.com and http://www.livingroom.org.au/photolog/news/omnivision_5mp_cmos_sensor_to_rival_ccds_in_high_end_camera_market.php
TDC make a single-chip make a mobile camera controller OV529: http://www.tdc.co.uk/marketing/press/20040630_ov529.htm

Gizmag article about Ford's Iosis that uses 3 rear-vision cameras to produce 360-degree vision: http://www.gizmag.com.au/go/4510/gallery/
http://www.autoblog.com/entry/1234000240056711/
Picture of Lexus LX330 rear-vision camera: http://www.worldcarfans.com/news.cfm/newsid/2050601.002/lexus/1.html
Automotive vision looks to put technology in the driver’s seat: http://www.automotivedesignline.com/showArticle.jhtml?printableArticle=true&articleId=167600764
Integrated GPS Navigation and Rear-View System: http://www.funddealernet.com/cartercam/
Global Sources: http://www.globalsources.com/gsol/I/Rear-view-manufacturers/b/2000000003844/3000000179999/22553.htm
Taxi camera systems: http://www.bitron.com.au/page2.html
http://users.bigpond.net.au/MartinMeters/index.html
http://www.raywoodcomms.com.au/snapshot.htm
http://www.sigtec.com.au/taxi_cameras.htm

Quickcam Interface: HW & SW: http://www.seattlerobotics.org/encoder/200009/qcam.html

Skype

Skype: http://www.skype.com
Skype VoIP Box: http://www.voip-skyfree.com.tw/

Useful Windows Links

Optimise your Windows XP: http://mywebpages.comcast.net/SupportCD/OptimizeXP.html
Simple DirectMedia Library: http://www.libsdl.org/intro/usingcdrom.html

Video and Image Processing

Blackfin DSP at Tinyboards.com: http://www.tinyboards.com/rainbow/
Video/Imaging Tech Library: http://www.videsignline.com/techlibrary/
Analog Devices Blackfin Netcam Reference Design: http://www.analog.com/processors/platforms/blackfin_BRAVO/Final_BlackFin_Networked_CameraB.pdf
Wikipedia's definition of H.264 & MPEG4: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.264

Devolution Security System: http://devsec.sourceforge.net/
Panorama Stitching or Mosaicing: http://www.hpl.hp.com/research/isl/panorama/
University of Florida's Image Algebra Project (Docs & Source & IAC++): http://www.cise.ufl.edu/~jnw/IA/
Image Algebra C++ Library (IAC++): http://www.cise.ufl.edu/~jnw/IA/iac++/
Fast Forward Video (FFV) Compact DVR: http://www.ffv.com/

Embedded & Mini-ITX PCs

VIA Mini-ITX Embedded Platforms: http://www.viaembedded.com/product/index.jsp
MythTV for EPIA systems: http://linpvr.org/
Linux for EPIA: http://epialinux.org/
Australian supplier of Mini-ITX: https://www.eyo.com.au/
Mini-ITX cases: http://www.procase.com.tw/

IP Video Phone

Toshiba IP Video Phone Block Diagram: http://www.toshiba.com/taec/applications/ip_video_phone.shtml
TI IP Video Phone System Block Diagram: http://focus.ti.com/vf/docs/blockdiagram.tsp?family=vf&blockDiagramId=2018
Xten: http://www.xten.com/
TI Surveillance IP Video Node Block Diagram: http://focus.ti.com/vf/docs/blockdiagram.tsp?family=vf&blockDiagramId=2022

Linux, ucLinux and other OS

All about UDEV: http://webpages.charter.net/decibelshelp/LinuxHelp_UDEVPrimer.html
Timesys Linux Development Kit: http://www.timesys.com/
Penguin PPC: http://penguinppc.org/
Freescale Linux Developer Connection: http://www.freescale.com/webapp/community.show_collateral.framework?nodeId=0C0928&communityNodeId=0C0928
Python Robotics (PyRo) Knoppix CD: http://pyrorobotics.org/pyro/?page=PyroLiveCD
Debian Linux: http://debianlinux.net/linux.html
U-Boot Project: http://u-boot.sourceforge.net/
U-Boot Documentation: http://www.denx.de/twiki/publish/DULG/DULG-tqm8xxl.html#Section_1.
Linux Filesystems: http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2001/02/28/FreeBSD_Basics.html
Programmer's Heaven: http://www.programmersheaven.com/zone23/articles/article398.htm
Gentoo UDEV Guide: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/udev-guide.xml
Issues booting after Gentoo install: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-295552-highlight-rcsplash.html
Issues booting after Gentoo install: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-295552-highlight-rcsplash.html
Can't boot Gentoo 2005.0: http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/topic-41023.html
Gentoo Installation: http://wwwhome.cs.utwente.nl/~ywlaw/gentoo.html
More UDEV: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/udev-guide.xml
VMWare & Gentoo: http://www.geocities.com/nancythefreaker/vmwareGentoo.html
Complete Gentoo 2.6 Migration Guide: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/migration-to-2.6.xml?style=printable
Tutorial on getting started with embedded programming using ucLinux: http://www.omimo.be/vpr/layout/display/pr.asp?PRID=3491
Understanding the build tools in ucLinux: http://www.beyondlogic.org/uClinux/builduC.htm
ucLinux Development Kit & Distributions: http://uclinux.com/Software/Software.html
Free ucLinux emulators: http://www.cyberguard.info/snapgear/tb20020807.html
Linux links on video: http://www.linuxlinks.com/Software/Multimedia/Video/
Trion Operating System: http://trion.sourceforge.net/
Linux LiveCD Router: http://www.wifi.com.ar/
FFMG: http://ffmpeg.sourceforge.net/faq.html
Double Clutching: http://www.elecdesign.com/Article/ArticleID/6137/6137.html
Compressed Formats: http://www.fourcc.org/codecs.php
Project Blackdog: http://www.projectblackdog.com/demo.html
Linux Device Drivers, 3rd Edition: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/linuxdrive3/book/index.csp

How to Blog

Learning Blogger with Molly E. Holzschlag (Video Tutorials): http://movielibrary.lynda.com/html/modPage.asp?ID=113

Other Networks

Very Simple Control Protocol (Open Source) for Home Automation: http://www.kvaser.se/can/index.htm

Driver Development

Jungo: http://www.jungo.com/

CAN Networks

CAN we talk? http://www.automotivedesignline.com/howto/47900954
Modular canbus driver for Linux: http://sourceforge.net/projects/canbus4linux
Bosch CAN: http://www.semiconductors.bosch.de/de/20/can/index.asp
CAN literature including time-triggered CAN: http://www.semiconductors.bosch.de/de/20/can/3-literature.asp
CAN programming: http://can.marathon.ru/library/pcapac00-ID111.pdf
CAN Controller Webring: http://g.webring.com/hub?ring=cancontrollerare
2005 Toyota Prius Project: http://www.autobeyours.com/05%20Prius.htm
Using the CAN232 dongle: http://www.vassfamily.net/ToyotaPrius/CAN/cindex.html
Embedded Developers: http://www.algonet.se/~staffann/developer/frames.htm
Kvaser: http://www.kvaser.se/can/index.htm
CAN200: http://private.addcom.de/horo/can200/
Another Linux CAN project: http://home.wanadoo.nl/arnaud/

Learn Chinese

http://www.mandarintools.com/

Display Controller/Systems

http://www.videsignline.com/howto/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=VG1GELZYXGDGEQSNDBCCKHSCJUMEKJVN?articleID=60407091
Leadis: http://www.leadis.com/products/ltps.html
UltraMon (Recommended for multi-monitor Windows XP): http://www.realtimesoft.com/ultramon
WideView for MS Flight Simulator: http://www.wideview.it

Digital Signal Processing - Processors, Articles, Resources

http://www.bdti.com/faq/1.htm
Article about DSP may soon be the most popular processor, and mentions about rear-vision and rear-seat camera systems: http://pd.pennnet.com/Articles/Article_Display.cfm?Section=Articles&Subsection=Display&ARTICLE_ID=225757&KEYWORD=LSI%20Logic
The Scientists and Engineers Guide to Digital Signal Processing (Free download book): http://www.dspguide.com/
EDN 2005 DSP Directory: http://www.edn.com/article/CA526330.html
Assembly required: using reference-design resources: http://www.edn.com/article/CA512130.html
Security techs go begging for a clear safety strategy: http://www.eet.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=59100520
Dirac Video Codec developed by BBC that uses wavelets: http://dirac.sourceforge.net/overview.html
DSP Gateway for Linux: http://dspgateway.sourceforge.net/pub/index.php?Page=3001

PID Control

http://www.expertune.com/artCE87.html

Ruby Language

Ruby on Rails (Ruby + MySql): http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2005/01/20/rails.html
Why's Poignant Guide to Ruby: http://poignantguide.net/ruby/chapter-3.html
Ruby Garden: http://www.rubygarden.org/index.cgi/General

3D Graphics Engines

Irrlicht: http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/index.html

Cell processors by Sony, IBM and Toshiba

http://www.us.playstation.com/pressreleases.aspx?id=252
http://arstechnica.com/reviews/hardware/ee.ars/1
Cell Broadband Engine Documentation: http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/power/cell/?S_TACT=105AGX30&S_CMP=DEVXLNX

Google Mail

http://www.viksoe.dk/code/gmail.htm

UML

Practical UML: http://bdn.borland.com/article/0,1410,31863,00.html
Object-Oriented Analysis & Design Team: http://pigseye.kennesaw.edu/~dbraun/csis4650/A&D/index.htm
UML State Machine Diagramming Guidelines: http://www.agilemodeling.com/style/stateChartDiagram.htm

Reverse Engineering using Visual Studio 7 and Visio EA: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnvisio00/html/revengcode.asp

UMLGraph: http://www.spinellis.gr/sw/umlgraph/
Sequence Diagrams: http://www.spinellis.gr/sw/umlgraph/
UMLet: http://qse.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/~auer/umlet/
Enterprise Architect: http://www.sparxsystems.com.au/products/ea.html
Poseidon for UML: http://www.gentleware.com/index.php?id=ce

PCB Prototyping Services

Futurlec: http://www.futurlec.com

Machine Vision Resources

Hamish Vision: http://www.hameyvision.com.au/index.html
http://www.matrix-vision.com/products/hardware/mvbluefox.php?lang=en
http://www.iguard.de/index.php?lang=en
http://www.visicontrol.info/en/pdf/index.htm
http://www.rdrop.com/~cary/html/machine_vision.html#realtime
http://www.rdrop.com/~cary/html/robot_links.html
http://www.videsignline.com/
http://www.videsignline.com/howto/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=VG1GELZYXGDGEQSNDBCCKHSCJUMEKJVN?articleID=160900982

Cool Products & Applications

http://bitsonwheels.com/
Liquid Lenses: http://www.electronicdesign.com/Articles/ArticleID/9749/9749.html

Video Streaming Server

Darwin Quicktime Server: http://developer.apple.com/darwin/
Macromedia MX Server 1.5: http://www.macromedia.com/software/flashcom/
List of free host streaming sites: http://www.sabox.com/hosting/8/free-hosting-streaming-video.html

Gigabit Ethernet

Gigabit Ethernet cameras: http://www.qa-talk.com/news/avd/avd100.html
http://www.tattile.com/new.site/tag_camera.htm
http://www.ezlan.net/giga_net.html
http://www.abcd.com.au/network/index_networking-products.htm
Giga CARNet Project: http://www.google.com/url?sa=U&start=30&q=http://giga.carnet.hr/promo/img/cuc_2004.ppt&e=9707

Data Compression

A compendium of sources related to data compression: http://www.datacompression.info/
http://www.geocities.com/capecanaveral/Lab/2336/wave.html
http://dynamo.ecn.purdue.edu/~ace/compression/compression.html
http://ict.ewi.tudelft.nl/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=35&Itemid=161

Webcam Programming Resources

http://www.aboutdebian.com/webcam.htm
http://www.ee.oulu.fi/~tuukkat/quickcam/quickcam.html
http://gkall.hobby.nl/notes5.html
http://www.seismo.ethz.ch/linux/webcam.html
This tells you how to write a Linux USB device driver for webcams: http://www.bazon.net/mishoo/articles.epl?art_id=759
http://www.linux.com/howtos/Webcam-HOWTO/hardware.shtml
http://www.tele.ucl.ac.be/PEOPLE/DOUXCHAMPS/ieee1394/cameras/
http://webcam.sourceforge.net/
http://www.si.org/konica/
http://home.tiscali.dk/tomasgc/labtec/
http://members.chello.nl/~j.vreeken/se401/
http://zc0302.sourceforge.net/zc0302.php
http://www.saillard.org/linux/pwc/
FireFly2 from Point Grey Research: http://www.ptgrey.com/products/firefly2/
Philips Webcam Linux Driver: http://heim.ifi.uio.no/~doru-cat/webcams.htm
List of CCD cameras: http://ccd-cameras.globalspec.com/Industrial-Directory/board_camera_ccd
Matrix Vision USB cameras: http://www.mat
rix-vision.com/products/hardware/mvbluefox.php?lang=en
CamTrack Face Tracker: http://sourceforge.net/projects/camtrack/
Omnivision-based devices: http://alpha.dyndns.org/ov511/cameras.html
Macam driver: http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?group_id=44375&release_id=138401
SPCA50X USB Camera Linux Driver: http://spca50x.sourceforge.net/spca50x.php?page=cams
http://www.cctv-security-camera-manufacturer.com/contact-us.htm
http://www.seattlerobotics.org/encoder/200009/qcam.html
http://www.analog.com/en/prod/0,,765_798_ADV7171,00.html
BeyondLogic's article about CMOS image sensors: http://www.beyondlogic.org/imaging/camera.htm
Mintron: http://www.mintron.com/
TDA8786: http://www.chipdocs.com/datasheets/datasheet-pdf/Philips-Semiconductors/TDA8786.html
CCD Signal Processor: http://search.globalspec.com/Industrial/processor/CCD_signal_processor
HQEW: http://www.hqew.com/stock/searchic.asp?keyword=LZ
Sobon: http://www.itrademarket.com/sobon/profile
Datasheet Archive: http://www.datasheetarchive.com/datasheet/pdf/3689.html
Camera hardware: http://diwww.epfl.ch/lami/biovision/Vision_Active_materiel.html
http://www.alldatasheet.co.kr/datasheet/A-17.htmlControlling CCD Sensors: http://www.elecdesign.com/Articles/Index.cfm?AD=1&ArticleID=1315#
Omnivision: Omnivision: http://www.ovt.com/i_products.html

DVD, MPEG, and H.264

http://handbrake.m0k.org/
http://www.videolan.org/x264.html
http://tcvp.sourceforge.net/index.php
Apple's Quicktime Streaming Server (Open Source): http://developer.apple.com/darwin/

Camera Module Suppliers

Artray: http://www.artray-ap.com/index.html
COMedia (HK): http://www.comedia.com.hk/, http://home.pacific.net.hk/~comedia/
Sitna's WebEye: http://www.sitna.com/webeye.php
Veise CCTV manufacturer & also make rear-vision camera system: http://www.veise.com/

PowerPC

Freescale MPC8641 is used in the Kurobox. This is the specs: http://uat.freescale.com/webapp/sps/site/prod_summary.jsp?code=MPC8241&nodeId=018rH3bTdG3683
PowerPC programming:
http://www.lightsoft.co.uk/Fantasm/Beginners/chapt4.html
http://www.lightsoft.co.uk/Fantasm/Beginners/chapt8.html
Streaming:
http://www.embedded-kernel-track.org/2005/Barco-paper-Fosdem2005.pdf

MPC8241/603e core: http://www.freescale.com/files/sndf/doc/reports_presentations/SNDF2003_DALLAS_Q1239.pdf
http://www.freescale.com/webapp/sps/site/prod_summary.jsp?code=MPC8241&nodeId=018rH3bTdG8655
http://www.lightsoft.co.uk/Fantasm/avec_prog.html
http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/library/pa-unrollav1/
http://www.informatik.uni-bremen.de/~hobold/AltiVec.html
http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/power/library/pa-unrollav2/index.html?ca=dgr-mw01Altivec2
http://findsabrina.org/altivec/
http://www.mackido.com/Hardware/AltiVecVsMMX.html
http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2002/04/05/altivec.html
http://www.freescale.com/files/32bit/doc/ref_manual/ALTIVECPIM.pdf
http://www.freescale.com/webapp/sps/site/overview.jsp?nodeId=018rH3bTdGmKqW5Nf2
http://www.simdtech.org/altivec
http://daugerresearch.com/fractaldemos/altivecfractalcarbon.html
http://developer.apple.com/hardware/ve/download_summary.html
http://developer.apple.com/hardware/ve/
Sony's Cell chip is PowerPC based: http://techon.nikkeibp.co.jp/english/NEWS_EN/20050407/103542/
IBM's PowerPC Open Platform reference design: http://www.openppc.org/pop/download.phtml

Mini-PCs

Found some more desktop mini PCs:
Cappuccino by SaintSong: http://www.saintsong.com.tw/english/gx1.htm
and the Mocha by CapuccinoPC: http://www.cappuccinopc.com/mochae7042b.asp

Kuro Box

http://www.revolutionstore.com/revogear/index.asp
http://www.devx.com/power/Article/27311/2046
http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/power/library/pa-migrate3/
http://www.slackology.net/projectlinks.html
http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/pa-bargain.html?ca=dgr-lnxw51KuroBox
http://www.slackology.net/projectlinks.html
http://www.kurobox.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=21&sid=574a0469b0fb59cee2477d8b0613ed55
http://www.revogear.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=200
http://www.tomsnetworking.com/Reviews-171-ProdID-KUROBOX-1.php
http://www.kurobox.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=37
I ended up buying one of these because they were on special. I bought the Kurobox HG, which has 266MHz PowerPC, 128Mb RAM and Gigabit Ethernet. Can't wait to arrive and try it out. I hope the PowerPC is as powerful it is claimed to be compared to a DSP.

Instructions and Notes working with a Kurobox: http://geek.vtnet.ca/embedded/KuroBox/index.html
http://geek.vtnet.ca/embedded/KuroBox/kuro.pdf
http://www.taupro.com/wiki/KuroBox/FAQs
How to add a JTAG port: http://kurobox.com/online/tiki-index.php?page=AddTheJTAGPort&PHPSESSID=d8bbbd9ce1f850e13c108e2738ccdc9a

Australian Institute for Commercialisation

http://www.techfast.com.au/
http://news.researchcentre.com.au/rndinfo/rndinfo041011.htm
http://www.henrythornton.com/article.asp?article_id=3095
http://www.ausicom.com

Embedded database engines

http://www.cuj.com/documents/s=8188/cuj0504newcombe/

Linux DVR

I saw this item for a DVR card on eBay: http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=20589&item=5971264836&rd=1. And it mentions that there are Linux drivers for it, plus some Linux applications. Check these out:

Learn about DirectX programming

Learn about DirectX programming starting from here: http://www.drunkenhyena.com/

Investment

Lately, I've been looking at some entrepreneurial investment skills. The latest books I'm reading are "The E-Myth Revisited" by Michael Gerber (http://www.e-myth.com/) and "How to Make Your Money Last as Long as You Do" by Margaret Lomas (http://www.edestiny.com.au/).