Friday, 8 June 2018

Building microservices with Vert.x and Building a self-driving RC car

On Thursday, 7th June 2018, in the evening, I was attending two talks in Den Bosch (or 's-Hertogenbosch, depending on who you talk to) at Malmberg1. Malmberg is a company that has adapted to the times and made educational materials and books and magazines, then it started to focus on educational materials exclusively, and has been working on putting said educational materials in Microservices and the Cloud for the last five years.

JPoint2, the consultancy agency has been instrumental in getting them up and going.

Building microservices with Vert.x (Bert-Jan Schrijver)

You can find the slides for the first talk at slideshare3.

They do a pretty good job of explaining what it is and how it can help you.

The examples are available at a github4 location.

Building a self-driving RC car (Tim van Eijndhoven)

This talk already was given at Devoxx UK, and there's a youtube video5 about it.

It uses the ServoBlaster6 software to drive the motors.

It uses the RPi Web Cam7.

It uses a C++ library for pattern recognition in images called OpenCV8 - open source computer vision, which already has a JNI interface with Java.

The github repo9 regarding the car can be found here.

References

[1] Malmberg
https://www.malmberg.nl/
[2] JPoint
https://www.jpoint.nl/
[3] Slideshare - Building microservices with Vert.x - Bert-jan Schrijver
https://www.slideshare.net/Codemotion/building-microservices-with-vertx-bert-jan-schrijver-codemotion-amsterdam-2016?qid=ffe2e0b9-f7fe-4897-8452-16cacc43a5ff&v=&b=&from_search=3
[4] GitHUb - vert.x 3 coding examples
https://github.com/bertjan/vertx3-examples
[5] Youtube - building a self-driving RC car
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLg-LPSRjho
[6] GitHub - ServoBlaster
https://github.com/richardghirst/PiBits/tree/master/ServoBlaster
[7] GitHub - RPi Web Cam Interface
https://github.com/silvanmelchior/RPi_Cam_Web_Interface
[8] Open CV
https://opencv.org/
[9[ GitHUb - rc-dukes
github.com/rc-dukes

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