Written by Ryan Walker, former MistyWest employee. As you learned in the first part of our RoboSteve series, we are building a Machine Learning and Machine Vision platform inspired by our office dog Steve. There’s only one thing biological Steve loves more than food, and that’s playing with his girlfriend Miso. In order to emulate …
Written by Senzeni Mpofu As a team, we are pretty comfortable developing products that can withstand even the most extreme of environmental conditions. We have made electronics for use in extremely dusty conditions. We tackled innovation for prolonged exposure to subzero temperatures – both in the Arctic and on ski slopes. We have even contributed …
A few weeks back, a handful of brave Westies began a quest to build a robot dog. When this concept was pitched, it was widely regarded as some animatronic dog covered in servos that would walk around – in reality, it’s a Machine Learning and Machine Vision platform. The goals of the project are to …
Written by Senzeni Mpofu, former Westie Way back in June 2016, MistyWest acquired a super-neat thing called the HTC Vive, which is somewhat old news now but was the coolest kid on the block virtual-reality-wise at the time and we thought that was pretty peachy. Many wows were had, and the Westies rejoiced as we …
Written by Div Gill, Engineering Physicist EIT and former Westie Introduction to LiDAR The term LiDAR stands for Light Detection and Ranging; technically speaking, LiDAR covers a broad range of sensors that use electromagnetic radiation in the visible, and infrared and UV bands to detect distances to objects, and its modern use refers to …
Written by Justin Lam, former Westie. Virtual reality pushes the envelope of bleeding edge technology, allowing us to explore and experience worlds beyond our mortal imaginations. It gives us immersion in another dimension, providing an unprecedented medium for communication and story telling. If a picture is worth a thousand words, then virtual reality must be …
