Tech Posts
I am a professional software developer (specialising in web applications), I aim to write and post here a number of easy to read blog posts with topics broadly relating to computers and software. I may aim to write for teachers, giving suggestions for class ideas or giving class demonstrations.
Reports Writer Press Release
Press Release Reports Writer Reports Writer is a new and exciting artificial intelligence technology that assists teachers in writing end of year reports for their students. It is a web application that allows teachers to create a spreadsheet of their students, and then generate a report for each student. The software is much more powerful than existing comment bank tools, which often sound robotic or lack sentence structure and flow.
The Learning Line Follower
Be warned, this tale is a tragedy. For Christmas, my father bought me an Arduino robot kit with 4 wheels some eyes and ears. It came with light (and sonar) sensors. I decided to conduct supervised learning with a Markov chain model. Two front light sensor point vertically down, reading the grounds ability to reflect infrared light. The kit came with black tape to lay on the floor. I aimed to teach the robot to follow the line, programming it to remember 1KB: a weighted guess at a set of movements given the last two things it saw (input reads).