In this substantial self-improvement, more than a month has passed by in a blink of an eye.
In this process, not only Xia Xu's own abilities and knowledge have grown sufficiently, but the companies and projects under his command have also made progress.
First, Huichuang Hi-Tech, which was acquired from Zhou Xiaodong, has now been renamed Xinghai Industrial, and has recruited a group of scientific researchers. It also relies on the contacts Chen Leyao built for Xinghai Ventures with multiple software and hardware manufacturers, suppliers, and materials.
Businessmen reached a cooperation.
After that, Xia Xu, who had already made a small fortune, officially settled in the research institute of Xinghai Industry with Xiao Baihua, and the design of robots gradually changed from practical entertainment to formal work.
It is impossible for any machinery manufacturing company to develop all the hardware by itself, and it is naturally impossible for him, a rookie who is just starting out, and Xinghai Industrial, which has an equally weak technical background, to rely entirely on procurement and customization of hardware.
However, the selection and adoption of hardware, structural design, appearance design, functional design, etc. are all handled by Xia Xu himself, who is getting better and better.
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And although he has no talent for mechanical engineering, he is not a fool either.
Although he may not be able to create any world-shattering technology after solving the knowledge problem with the super-brain potion, he can still easily build the items he wants by simply constructing the existing technology and software and hardware.
As for how to optimize functions and appearance in the future, how to solve defects and bugs, etc., this does not require him to work alone behind closed doors.
After the banknote ability was activated, relevant talents such as Zhou Xiaodong joined the R&D team one after another to assist and supplement, check for omissions and fill in the gaps. Various existing robot cases and the centipede robot left by Pan Yuanhang can also be used as reference.
As for the software, it is naturally easy to leave it to the outsourcing company, and the more difficult task to his personal programmer Yuan Xiaotang. For those who need additional professional knowledge in addition to programming, a group of experts have been hired to provide assistance and assistance at all times.
consult.
So, more than a month later, Xia Mechanic Xu’s debut novel was released at the speed of light.
"Boss, this batch of hardware from Spot Industry is obviously much better than the previous ones. The performance of the central processor has been improved by nearly 20%, and the performance of the servo motor is even more amazing. But the multispectral lens
The batch from the veteran manufacturer Ruijing Optics is more mature and stable..."
"Then let's adopt the current plan for the time being, and then we can slowly debug and optimize it later."
In the research institute of Xinghai Industry, Xia Xu, who was wearing a pair of smart glasses that looked very similar to smart glasses, except that the lenses turned into black and red sunglasses, listened to Zhou Xiaodong's report while bending down to solder the lines attentively.
In fact, compared to the robot that he slowly pieced together with half-learning and half-practice, the first research result or improvement result was actually smart glasses.
The smart glasses left by Pan Yuanhang are only powerful because of the brain control technology they carry. In other respects, the hardware is no longer top-notch after iterations over the years, and the software is just crudely made from the open source Android mobile phone system and is just a perfunctory one.
For testing purpose, no efforts have been made to refine it.
So during his more than a month of study, in addition to learning robot design with Xiao Baihua, he also tried to iterate the hardware, structure, and shape of the smart glasses, and then let Xiao Baihua try out the smart glasses system to try to optimize and transform it.
Of course, he couldn't do much in one month, not to mention that his main focus was still on robots, so he didn't ask Xiao Baihua to do much. Apart from optimizing some details, the main thing was to redo Pan Yuanhang's shoddy brain control system.
operating software.
Naturally, they have no way of commenting on brain-controlled interaction technology, but the brain-controlled software that provides visual images, or the display system of the entire smart glasses, is really too thin.
Pan Yuanhang's design idea is obviously to position this pair of smart glasses as AR equipment, augmented reality technology.
As the name suggests, AR equipment is based on reality, and then uses technical means to supplement and enhance reality.
To put it simply, the lenses of smart glasses do not block the normal field of view, and the surrounding environment can be viewed normally, but the two are integrated through the fictitious image display generated on the lenses, and virtual objects and pictures can be seen in the normal field of view.
It's not that there is anything wrong with this design itself, but the technology in this area is obviously not mature yet.
Tiny virtual objects are okay, but if you want to display the video picture returned by the remote control device completely without affecting the normal field of view, you can only sacrifice brightness and clarity and blur it as much as possible.
This is not a big problem in a dimly lit environment, but under strong sunlight it can be completely unclear or even invisible.
After all, even if a device such as a mobile phone is adjusted to the highest brightness, it will be difficult to see clearly under the sun, especially if it is displayed on a transparent lens and has been blurred.
You can't even see clearly under the sun, let alone application scenarios where brain control technology requires quick and clear identification of the returned images to make decisions.
For this reason, Xia Xucai said that the smart glasses made by Pan Yuanhang were just a crude test product. It was fine for laboratory testing, but it was useless to actually wear it and use it.
Therefore, after he completed the basic knowledge of electronic machinery, the first thing he did was to guide Xiaobaihua in how to operate smart glasses.
After all, he has the memory of the earth. Although he cannot take advantage of various black technologies, at least his technical vision on a normal level is still slightly ahead of his time.
The way to optimize and transform is not difficult, which is to change the ar mode (augmented reality) of smart glasses into the vr mode (virtual reality) that is more familiar to many people and has a relatively lower threshold.
Of course, the boundaries between these two technologies for smart glasses are actually relatively blurred.
Augmented reality only uses lenses to display additional images on top of the normal field of view, and virtual reality just turns everything into ‘virtual’.
In short, it no longer uses the transparent display lens like normal glasses, but replaces it with a dark red lens screen, completely giving up the normal direct gaze to obtain the field of vision.
As for the lack of field of vision, of course it is not like wearing VR glasses and being completely immersed as a blind person, but using a camera lens to capture the picture and then projecting it onto the display lens.
This not only solves problems such as image brightness and clarity, but also allows the image to be pre-processed.
For example, you can enhance the clarity, mark key points, display parameters, zoom in and out, zoom in and out, and even if you don't mind the trouble, you can use a little development to beautify people and turn on special effects, or mosaic the pictures you don't want to see.
It just so happens that Pan Yuanhang's smart glasses are originally designed with a micro lens for collecting data at the corner of the eye. After replacing it with a lens with better performance, the image can be directly used to replace the field of view image.
Therefore, although the model of smart glasses modification has changed, it is actually hardware iteration and replacing the lenses with black and red displays, mainly software modifications.
Moreover, the software is still based on the Android system, and does not need to be written from scratch. Many ready-made software and technologies are also compatible, and can be used with most modifications. For Tang Youxin today, it is really a tool that can be picked up in her spare time to try out.
do.
As for their actual work…
"La la la, classmate Xiaoxia started successfully on the 1st! Go duck!"
After the assembly was completed and the machine was turned on, Little White Flower's cheerful and sweet voice came through the speaker of the robot in front of her.
"When did you add such a shameful startup sound effect?"
Xia Xu's face turned a little red, and Zhou Xiaodong beside him couldn't help but suppress a smile.
On the table in front of him is a basketball-sized robot, which looks like a spider. Since the outer shell has not been painted, it is currently a silver color common to metals, but it has been polished to a shiny silver finish.
Spider predator.
Both its appearance and name refer to the tarantula.
What a shame, he designed this thing really for combat purposes. Although Xiao Baihua's voice is cute and cute, it would be too shameful to have it built into it.
Can you imagine that when facing an enemy, he put on his cool smart glasses and controlled several basketball-sized spider robots in a menacing manner, only to hear such a startup sound effect?
I'm afraid that if I don't live in an awkward position on the spot, I will die in an instant, and I can dig out a three-bedroom and one-living room under my feet.
"Comrade Xiao Tang, is your butt itchy again? You're still rushing. Believe it or not, I'll rush..."
Glancing at the snickering faces of Zhou Xiaodong and the others, Xia Xu finally "ran away" and aggressively walked towards the studio assigned to Tang Youxin alone.