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|Hanger Clinic prosthetist works with Auburn's College of Veterinary Medicine to fit miniature donkey foal with prosthetic limb
Auburn, Ala., July 25, 2012 – Auburn University's College of Veterinary Medicine and Hanger Clinic, formerly Hanger Prosthetics and Orthotics, are working together on a case that could have implications in the treatment and rehabilitation of horses, donkeys and other equines with congenital deformities or injuries.
Emma, a miniature donkey foal, was just two days old when she arrived at the John Thomas Vaughan Large Animal Teaching Hospital in April with a severe hind limb deformity, one that required amputation of the limb and the placement of a prosthesis.
Dr. Fred Caldwell, an assistant professor in the Department of Clinical Sciences and equine surgeon, performed the procedure, and is working with clinician Billy Fletcher from Hanger Clinic – the same company which made the prosthetic tail for Winter, the amputee dolphin and star of the film "Dolphin Tale" – to develop a prosthesis for her limb. The two worked out a plan to both allow Emma time to heal from the surgery and transition from her cast to the prosthesis.
"Billy was excited and enthusiastic to assist," Caldwell said. "Once we proceeded with the surgery and amputated the distal limb, he provided a small footplate to incorporate into the cast to even out the length of her hind limbs so she could bear weight until we could get the surgical site healed and have her fitted with a prosthesis. It has been a group effort on behalf of many caring individuals willing to go to great lengths to save her."
Emma's case is providing a unique and beneficial teaching opportunity for everyone involved. The practice of using prostheses with large equines is relatively uncommon due to size and weight-bearing limitations. Because Emma is a miniature donkey, she will be fairly small as an adult, weighing approximately 350 pounds full grown. This gave Caldwell and Fletcher hope for a positive prognosis and success in Emma's treatment.
Emma is now 13 weeks old and has thrived with her prosthesis, making an impression on everyone who has worked with her.
"She absolutely loved it from the get-go," Caldwell said. "It was a very impressive design and she did very well in it. She has progressed to the second iteration of her prosthesis, which doesn't incorporate as much of the limb and allows her more range of motion. She is getting stronger; she's growing and doing wonderfully."
Fletcher, who sees patients in the Opelika, Ala. and Columbus, Ga. Hanger Clinic locations, said that as Emma grows, she could potentially transition through eight or nine variations of the prosthesis before reaching full growth. At that point, she will be fitted with a piece that is more permanent.
The prosthesis is made of carbon fiber, Kevlar and fiberglass, materials that are strong and extremely light, and the same materials used for prostheses for Paralympic athletes. The materials are also flexible and adjustable to allow for growth and progression in Emma's gait. The first finished prosthesis weighed less than a pound; the most recent iteration, which is pink, is smaller, but weighs a little more to provide stability as she's grown taller and almost doubled her weight since surgery.
"The next step is trying to make sure we keep the prosthesis set up so she's ambulatory and she can run and play and do things uninhibited, but also, to keep the area of concern, the surgical site, offloaded so Dr. Caldwell can do his job in keeping her completely healed," Fletcher said. "As time goes by, we'll continue to provide a prosthesis that's going to allow for growth. We want to provide her with full range of motion, but also give her the ability to use full strength. I think she's got that in her current set-up, so the big thing now is keeping everything offloaded so she heals completely; we'll continue to increase the size of the prosthesis as she grows."
Caldwell said he has learned a tremendous amount from the case and it has given him hope that in the future amputation and prosthesis could be a more feasible option for larger horse patients.
"Every opportunity we have with a case like this, I think we get a little closer to being able to consider this a viable option," he said. "It's been very educational for me as an equine surgeon to learn; this has certainly been my first case. I think we have a long way to go before we get to this being a procedure that's routinely an option for our larger patients, but for a prosthetic limb to be an option in horses is something that's pretty exciting."
About Auburn University Veterinary Teaching Hospital: The Auburn University Veterinary Teaching Hospital provides state-of-the-art veterinary care and serves as a referral hospital and community practice facility to communities throughout Alabama and neighboring states. With board-certified specialists and a nationally renowned faculty, clients of the teaching hospital benefit from the combined expertise of specialists utilizing a team-based approach to patient health care. Challenging cases that require comprehensive diagnostics, imaging or therapies are sent to the hospital by referring veterinarians and this relationship ensures that animals receive the benefit of the latest clinical trials, research and treatment protocols available. For more information, visit http://www.vetmed.auburn.edu/hospital.
About Hanger: Founded in 1861 by James Edward Hanger, the first amputee of the Civil War, Hanger, Inc. (NYSE: HGR), owns and operates 15 patient care clinics in Alabama and 700+ nationwide. Specializing in integrated rehabilitative solutions, the certified clinicians of Hanger provide patients with the latest in orthotic and prosthetic solutions, including microprocessor devices for those with limb loss and neuromuscular technologies for those with paralysis due to stroke, MS and other debilitating conditions. After a six-month celebration of its 150th anniversary, on February 1, 2012 Hanger unveiled a comprehensive new brand identity to position the company for the future. The new brand includes renaming the parent company from Hanger Orthopedic Group, Inc. to "Hanger, Inc.", and referring to the patient care business as "Hanger Clinic" (formerly Hanger Prosthetics and Orthotics). For more information on Hanger and the new brand, visit www.hanger.com.
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The Anatomy of a Design Document, Part 1: Documentation Guidelines for the Game Concept and Proposal
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The purpose of design documentation is to express the vision for the game, describe the contents, and present a plan for implementation. A design document is a bible from which the producer preaches the goal, through which the designers champion their ideas, and from which the artists and programmers get their instructions and express their expertise. Unfortunately, design documents are sometimes ignored or fall short of their purpose, failing the producers, designers, artists, or programmers in one way or another. This article will help you make sure that your design document meets the needs of the project and the team. It presents guidelines for creating the various parts of a design document. These guidelines will also serve to instill procedures in your development project for ensuring the timely completion of a quality game.
The intended audience is persons charged with writing or reviewing design documentation who are not new to game development but may be writing documents for the first time or are looking to improve them.
Design documents come in stages that follow the steps in the development process. In this first of a two-part series of articles, I'll describe the purpose of documentation and the benefits of guidelines and provide documentation guidelines for the first two steps in the process - writing a concept document and submitting a game proposal. In the next part, I'll provide guidelines for the functional specification, technical specification and level designs.
The Purpose of Documentation
In broad terms, the purpose of documentation is to communicate the vision in sufficient detail to implement it. It removes the awkwardness of programmers, designers and artists coming to the producers and designers and asking what they should be doing. It keeps them from programming or animating in a box, with no knowledge of how or if their work is applicable or integrates with the work of others. Thus it reduces wasted efforts and confusion.
Documentation means different things to different members of the team. To a producer, it's a bible from which he should preach. If the producer doesn't bless the design documents or make his team read them, then they are next to worthless. To a designer they are a way of fleshing out the producer's vision and providing specific details on how the game will function. The lead designer is the principle author of all the documentation with the exception of the technical specification, which is written by the senior programmer or technical director. To a programmer and artist, they are instructions for implementation; yet also a way to express their expertise in formalizing the design and list of art and coding tasks. Design documentation should be a team effort, because almost everyone on the team plays games and can make great contributions to the design.
Documentation does not remove the need for design meetings or electronic discussions. Getting people into a room or similarly getting everyone's opinion on an idea or a plan before it's fully documented is often a faster way of reaching a consensus on what's right for the game. Design documents merely express the consensus, flesh out the ideas, and eliminate the vagueness. They themselves are discussion pieces. Though they strive to cement ideas and plans, they are not carved in stone. By commenting on them and editing them, people can exchange ideas more clearly.
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Adhering to specific guidelines will strongly benefit all of your projects. They eliminate the hype, increase clarity, ensure that certain procedures are followed, and make it easier to draft schedules and test plans.
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Clarity and certainty. Guidelines promote clarity and certainty in the design process. They create uniformity, making documents easier to read. They also make documents easier to write, as the writers know what's expected of them.
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Varying from the guidelines. The uniqueness of your project may dictate that you abandon certain guidelines and strictly adhere to others. A porting project is often a no-brainer and may not require any documentation beyond a technical specification if no changes to the design are involved. Sequels (such as Wing Commander II, III, and so on) and other known designs (such as Monopoly or poker) may not require a thorough explanation of the game mechanics, but may instead refer the readers to the existing games or design documents. Only the specifics of the particular implementation need to be documented.
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Half of all U.S. home heating fires occur in December, January and February. That's according to the National Fire Protection Association's (NFPA) Home Fires Involving Heating Equipment report, which shows that heating equipment is a leading cause of winter fires. In fact, heating equipment was involved in an estimated 66,100 reported home structure fires in 2008, causing 480 civilian deaths, 1,660 civilian injuries, and $1.1 billion in direct property damage.
NFPA and the U.S. Fire Administration (USFA) are working together to remind everyone that home fires are more prevalent in winter than in any other season. For more information about the organizations' joint safety campaign, "Put a Freeze on Winter Fires," and a complete list of winter safety tips, visit www.nfpa.org/winter.
"Winter fires are highly preventable," says Lorraine Carli, NFPA's vice president of communications. "Every tragic news story about a devastating winter fire is a reminder that simple precautions can prevent deadly consequences."
Space heaters resulted in far more fires and fire fatalities than central heating devices. Between 2004 and 2008, fixed (stationary) and portable space heaters (excluding fireplaces, chimneys, and chimney connectors, but including wood stoves) annually accounted for, on average, one-third of reported U.S. home heating fires and four out of five associated civilian deaths.
Meanwhile, an estimated 15,200 reported creosote fires – 23 percent of all home heating fires – annually resulted in an average of four civilian deaths, 17 civilian injuries, and $33 million in direct property damage. Creosote is a sticky, oily, combustible substance created when wood does not burn completely. It rises into the chimney as a liquid and deposits on the chimney wall.
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In addition to heating fires being a concern in the coming months, NFPA would like to remind the public that cooking fires are the leading cause of home fires all year round. This time of year, whether you are feasting on Super Bowl Sunday or simply cooking to warm up on a bitter cold day, it is important to stay in the kitchen when frying, grilling, or broiling. Unattended cooking is the leading cause of cooking fires.
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Denver, Colo., Aug 29, 2013 / 12:05 am (CNA).- Critics of a recent essay rejecting continued political opposition to "gay marriage" warn that the author risks confusing Catholics and helps empower a false vision of the fundamental institution of marriage.
Deacon Keith Fournier, editor in chief at Catholic Online, wrote on Aug. 28 that Catholic thinker Joseph Bottum's essay could significantly "undermine the Catholic Church" and its teachings on marriage.
"That is because it will confuse many of the faithful," the deacon said, calling the essay "dangerous" at a time when the Church faces "growing persecution" for defending "the truth concerning the nature of marriage and the family and society."
In addition, he suggested that many evangelical Protestant leaders who greatly admire the Catholic Church's clarity and uncompromising courage in proclaiming the truths of marriage may confuse the essay with the Church's position as a whole, losing respect for the teachers of the Catholic faith.
In a 9,000-word essay, "The Things We Share," published Aug. 23 in Commonweal magazine, Bottum contended that federal and state recognition of same-sex "marriage" is already so far advanced that Catholics should not expend energy and resources fighting it in judicial and legal spheres.
He said that Catholic arguments against "gay marriage" are not persuasive in the wider modern culture and appear to be blinding supporters of gay unions to the Catholic Church's other efforts at evangelizing and spreading the faith.
Bottum is a former editor of First Things magazine, an ecumenical, conservative-leaning journal with a heavily Catholic emphasis and readership.
His prominence brought major attention to his Aug. 23 essay. The New York Times characterized him as a "conservative Catholic" who "now backs same-sex marriage."
However, Bottum told CNA Aug. 26 that he is not a dissenting Catholic and accepts Church teaching that homosexual acts are wrong and that marriage is a union of one man and one woman.
He said that he had "in some ways set myself up to be misinterpreted" by consenting to the essay's subtitle, "A Catholic's Case for Same-sex Marriage." The New York Times coverage also distorted his position, he said.
Bottum acknowledged that parts of his essay may have been unclear but said that he had not been intending to undermine the bishops or diverge from Church teaching on the sacrament of marriage.
Rather, he said that he believes Catholics should tolerate civil recognition of same-sex unions as an entity separate from Church-recognized marriage. He argued that Catholics should de-emphasize their political opposition to a civil redefinition of marriage in order to focus on other methods of evangelization, working to "re-enchant" the culture.
Bottum's essay sparked online controversy, with some critics pointing to a 2003 document from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, in which then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, who would become Pope Benedict XVI, said: "In those situations where homosexual unions have been legally recognized or have been given the legal status and rights belonging to marriage, clear and emphatic opposition is a duty."
Several commenters argued that the length, indirect style and unclear wording of the piece lend themselves to easy confusion. Others disagreed with Bottum's conclusion that it would – or even could – be beneficial for the Church to drop its resistance to a civil redefinition of marriage.
New York Times columnist Ross Douthat, writing in an Aug. 26 blog post, characterized the "wandering, complicated essay" as "deliberately discursive – to the point of obscuring, at times, exactly what kind of argument the former First Things editor is making."
Douthat suggested that the essay can be read as "a literary Catholic's attempt to wrench the true complexity of his faith back out of the complexity-destroying context of contemporary political debates."
"He's writing as someone who loves his church, and wants everyone else to love it as he does — and I don't blame him for imagining that perhaps, just perhaps, ceasing to offer public resistance on the specific question of gay marriage would liberate the church from some the caricatures that the culture war has imposed upon it, and enable the world to see its richness with fresh eyes," he observed.
"I don't think it would actually work that way, for a variety of reasons," Douthat said, while voicing "sympathy for the impulse that animates his essay, if not the conclusions that it draws."
J.D. Flynn, a Catholic canon lawyer in Lincoln, Neb., writing in National Review Online Aug. 27, suggested that Bottum may have adopted a utilitarian approach to marriage out of a strong sense of pro-life conviction.
Haunted by the suffering of unborn children in abortion, he said, Bottum may have hoped that "moving past arguments about natural law and common welfare and sexual complementarity" would allow a greater focus on working to fight against abortion.
However, Flynn said, this was a mistake.
"Joseph Bottum knows that without a foundation of truth, laws against abortion are a faint hope. He knows that we order our common life to natural law in order to protect the unborn, and the disabled, and the elderly."
Flynn asserted that most Catholic leaders might have "quietly agreed" with Bottum had he said that only the fight against redefining marriage "seems largely over."
However, he objected to Bottum's claim that the recognition of same-sex unions "might prove a small advance in love in a civilization that no longer seems to know what love is for."
The "falsehood" of same-sex "marriage" cannot advance truth or charity, Flynn argued; rather, legal recognition of such unions will "lead only to greater injustice."
Tom Hoopes, former editor of the National Catholic Register, argued that even if "marriage is a losing proposition for the Church," it is one of those "things worth losing for."
Writing for CatholicVote.org on Aug. 27, he pointed to the examples of St. Thomas More and John the Baptist, both of whom died for their defense of marriage.
These martyrs, he said, did not succeed in "winning the marriage fight" or even "(r)eversing the tide." But they were willing to "lose big for marriage," sacrificing their lives as a witness.
Because they are so foundational to society, Hoopes said, "potential parents deserve a special status" and the protections and encouragement that accompany marriage, even at a civil level.
"Maybe marriage has always been a losing cause," he reflected. "But it has also always been the fundamental building block of society."
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Large Data Sets Experience is Needed by Computer Science Graduates
During recent graduate interview discussions I asked about technical items mentioned on resumes. What I heard surprised me in a couple of cases. In particular, the very low volume data sets recent graduates have worked with. I was surprised that they had not used a large data set. I got the impression that some professors do not care about the volume of data that students work with when they create their applications.
In the media there is a constant discussion about a mismatch between the skills that education provides and the capabilities graduates bring to the work place. And, whether they are prepared for work. The lack of large data set use means that skills needed by employers may be missing. I will outline the skills that could be gained by working with large data sets.
Some types of data handling are just high volume. Business intelligence and analytics consume more data than 20 years ago. Handling the increasing volume is important. Research programming and data science are truly part of big data. Even if you are not doing data science, you may be preparing and handling the data sets. Some industries and organisations just have higher volumes of data. Retail is one example. Companies that used to have less volume are obtaining more data as they adapt to the big data world. We should expect the same trend to continue with organisations that have had higher data volumes in the past. They are going to have to handle a much bigger big data experience.
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Loading large data sets is part of being prepared. It requires the use of tools. These tools can be from loaders to full data integration tool suites. A good option for students who need to load data sets is PowerCenter Express. It was announced last year. It is free for use with up to 250,000 rows per day. It is an ideal way to experience a full enterprise data integration tool and work with significantly higher volumes.
Big Data is here and it is a growing trend. And so students need to work with larger data sets than before. It is also feasible. The tools and the data sets the students need to work with large data sets are available. Therefore, in view of the current trends, large data set use should become standard practice in computer science and related courses.


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Even as the Iraq war has dragged on, offering no foreseeable end, top Pentagon officials have maintained that the nation's Army is fit enough and big enough to fight it. But last week the military's taut tendons--at the breaking point for better than a year--could be heard painfully snapping from the Pentagon to the Sunni triangle. First came a warning from the head of the Army Reserve that those troops are "rapidly degenerating into a broken force." Then Army officials, speaking privately, conceded that a long-standing policy limiting deployments of National Guard and Army Reserve forces is likely to be scrapped....
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Justice League #7 This issue of DC's powerhouse super-team represents a two-fold turning point. It leaves behind the oh-how-cute-they're-learning-about-each-other-for-the-first-time origin story of the last story arc behind, meaning that Geoff Johns will finally be showing us a League that's more mature. There's less built-in goodwill from the reader, so it'll be interesting to see how Johns plays with expectations Secondly, there's art by the utterly amazing Gene Ha this time out and anything he draws is a must-buy. Seriously. Anything.
Wonder Woman #7 Come on. Look at that cover. It doesn't scream "Buy me!" to you? If you need more convincing, consider the fact that Brian Azzarello — about as naturally suited a writer there is to comic-book tragedy — takes on the Orpheus myth in this issue. So you get Azzarello's take on one of the scariest, saddest legends ever told, drawn by art demigod Cliff Chiang in the comic that mixes horror and spandex action like nothing else out today. And that gorgeous cover? Again: come on.
Dominique Laveau: Voodoo Child #1 There's a unique mix of elements that'll have me picking this up. Firstly, artwork by Denys Cowan has always boasted a kinetic angularity that I've loved. Secondly, Selwyn Hinds used to be an editor of rap magazine The Source and has since been mixed up in intriguing sci-fi and speculative fiction. Lastly, this is a fantasy construct set in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina and the combination of history, upheaval and hoodoo magic should make for a good time.
Fatale #2 NOTE: This is a reprint of a previously sold out issue that can be found in comic shops this week. In its digital form, of course, it's not possible to sell out. Why's it in the Dozen, then? Because it's your chance to catch up with the newest project from the best guys doing noir comics today. Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips have already done killer work on Incognito, Criminal and Sleeper, all of the rough stories about the slow moral erosion of men caught between both. Centred on the mysterious female lead Jo, Fatale's a hardboiled Lovecraftian hybrid that blends the seedy underbelly of post-war San Francisco with character-driven occult crime drama. Part of what makes the fantastic elements in Brubaker's noir genre work sing so well is that he grounds them in deeply needy characters who hope that magic or super-science can help them escape their own flaws. You read these tales just waiting for the final turn that shows you whether those flaws win out or not. So get this issue in print or on screen, get the one before it and the ones after it, too, and enjoy watching the Fatale cast's incredibly messed-up lives get even more so.
Prophet #23 Comics' great Moebius died a few weeks back and the breadth of work influenced by his talent stands as a testament to how beloved his output was. The re-invented Prophet seems to have taken further deconstruction of Jean Giraud's crusty, baroque planetscapes as a starting point and moved onto the idea of an Earth where humanity's in decline. Right now, this book's pacing is slow and blown-out but I think it's supposed to be. Once its brand of weird starts to feel normal, all new sorts of weird will probably coming into orbit. If Prophet keeps looking this good, then I'll be sticking around.
Super Dinosaur #9 Robert Kirkman knows how to boil his concepts down to the point where you can basically absorb them into your pores. The retro-Marvel teenage superhero of Invincible and the post-zombie-apocalypse human drama of The Walking Dead attest to that skill. And though you want to laugh at its naked high concept, Super Dinosaur delivers tween-boy catnip with an armour-wearing, video game-loving T-Rex partnering up with a young boy to stop bad guys. It's full of wish-fulfilment energy that doesn't take it self too seriously. Great for the budding comics fan in your life.
Invincible Iron Man #514 Playing around with Tony Stark's substance abuse problem could be like juggling dynamite. On one hand, it's great narrative ore that's become part of the character's lore. It's hard leaving something that valuable on the table. On the other hand, part of what makes Stark heroic is the ability to overcome adversity. What Fraction and Larocca have done in their classic run is pattern out a tricky, true-to-life dance of a character constantly struggling to harness his compulsions — be it intelligence, the high life or an outsize ego — to the greater good. Nevertheless, all of Tony Stark's decision cost him and when they're really bad ones, even this billionaire may not be able to write them off.
Last of the Greats, Vol. 1 Joshua Hale Fialkov's proven himself to be one of those comics writers where genre boundaries don't mean anything. He's done small-town-gone-wrong drama in Elk's Run and sexy post-modern bloodsuckers in I, Vampire, securing those books and many more with finely tuned ear for character voice. The series collected here represents his creator-owned brush with mainstream superheroics, twisted around an all-powerful egotistical character who hates normal folks as much as they hate him. LotG rotates around that unhealthy symbiosis and lobs in a few surprises that quickly separate it from any forerunners that may have felt familiar.


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See current products here: 10393
- 1 Elphel 353/363 series cameras and camera modules
- 2 Links moved from the main page
- 3 Support, tips, and tricks
- 3.1 Specs
- 3.2 Modules for the 353/363 series cameras
- 3.3 Sample images and videos captured with Elphel Model 353 camera
Elphel 353/363 series cameras and camera modules
Links moved from the main page
- Software List (353) of software running on the camera
- Client Software List (353) of software running on client (viewer) computer
- Quick Start Guide for 353 Series Cameras
- User Documentation Guides and Articles
- Usage Tutorials for general camera users
- GNU GPL FAQ Frequently Asked Questions about the License
- Questions and Answers Ask and get answers about anything Elphel related
- User Projects (353) using Elphel Cameras
- Elphel Software Kit for Ubuntu
- Roadmap
- Image & Video Examples created using Elphel hardware
- Hacking the hardware Hacking and debugging Elphel's hardware
- Development Topics General Topic collection of camera development related stuff
Support, tips, and tricks
- Elphel 353 Series Quick Start Guide
- 353 in a nutshell
- 353 Firmware Upgrade / Reflashing Guide
- Tutorials
Goolge loves obsolete products: There is a new series of Elphel cameras that continue the line of 303, 313/323 and 333 - it is 353/363 now.
- Elphel Model 353 cameras are designed for video applications, use small format (usually - 1/2") high-resolution CMOS sensors and C/CS mount lenses
- Model 363 use large format CCD imagers, have higher resolution and lower frame rate - they acquire and send individual images. These cameras use 35 mm (or larger) format lenses.
The Processor Board (10353) that is used in both 353 and 363 cameras has the same physical dimensions as the earlier 10333 but has some important changes:
- It uses Axis ETRAX FS - faster and with more capabilities than earlier ETRAX 100LX
- 16-pin inter-board connector is replaced with high-density 30-pin one
- IDE port from the CPU is routed to additional 40-pin high density connector
- Sensor interface uses LVTTL 2.5V signals instead of 3.3V
- FPGA is now Xilinx (R) Spartan3e 1200K gates
- System memory - 64MB (SDRAM)
- System flash memory - 128MB (NAND flash)
- Image memory - 64MB (DDR SDRAM)
- Web Interface Ideas may be implemented
The 10353 board is designed to be an engine for a variety of cameras when supplemented with additional modules.
Modules for the 353/363 series cameras
- 10353 - processor board (computer part of the camera)
- 10338 - 5MPix sensor board for 353-series cameras
- 10357 - solid-state storage (can accommodate up to 8 CF cards - 128GB total)
- 10359 - multifunction multiplexer/FPGA processing board. Can be used to connect up to 3 of the sensor boards (i.e. 10338, 10347) to one processor board. It can process the image data too.
- 10347 - controller part of a two-board stack (currently with 10342 or 10344) to connect 35mm format CCD image sensors
- 10342 - sensor board (requires 10347) for the Kodak 11MPix KAI-11002 CCD image sensor
- 10344 - sensor board (requires 10347) for the Kodak 16MPix KAI-16000 CCD image sensor
- 10349 - interface board. It has 4 ports USB hub, serial port, IDE port and some socket for additional boards.
- 10369 - interface board with SATA port, 2 CF card slots, USB (4 ports), RS-232, 2 channels of optoisolated I/Os for synchronization, clock/calendar with super-capacitor backup power.
Sample images and videos captured with Elphel Model 353 camera
Elphel Development Blog Image Gallery
See: http://blogs.elphel.com/image-gallery/
Elphel Development Blog Video Gallery
See: http://blogs.elphel.com/video-gallery/
Apertus - open source cinema Video Gallery
See: http://www.apertus.org/videos
Apertus - open source cinema Image Gallery
Also has RAW DNG samples, See: http://www.apertus.org/still-images
Dedicated wikipage for images and videos examples.