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ERA field trip at Plymouth ‘GEES Learning and Teaching’ conference
On July 7th, the ERA team and our Plymouth University GEES collaborators John Maskell, Paul Lunt, Jason Truscott, Matt Sharples and Alison Stokes demonstrated the use of remote learning with ERA technology at the Devon Great Consols site. A minibus … Continue reading
Plymouth University trials ERA
At the end of June, we conducted some experiments to evaluate the performance of ERA-assisted fieldwork compared to the same fieldwork task being performed by students visiting the site directly. Four groups of students volunteers visited Devon Great Consols to … Continue reading
ERA introduction video
Here’s a 2 minute video we produced for our field trials in Plymouth as an introduction to the ERA project.
ERA visits Plymouth to demonstrate at GEES
On Monday 29th March (2010) we (John and Trevor) visited the Higher Education Academy’s Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences Subject Centre based at the University of Plymouth. We met with John Maskall and Jason Truscott, and showed them the portable … Continue reading
Portable VoWLAN: A portable voice over wireless local area network for mobile learning
Screen shots Description The Portable VoWLAN Toolkit is a battery-powered wireless local area network, optimised for voice and video data. Developed for use in university geology field courses, the toolkit provides a 802.11g WiFi network, a VoIP telephony server, and … Continue reading
Nokia LD-3W with Ricoh Caplio 500SE
We’ve just tried a Nokia LD-3W bluetooth GPS dongle with the Ricoh Caplio 500SE camera we’ve been using for taking photographs – and it rocks. The LD-3W paired with the Ricoh bluetooth really easily (using the default PIN of 0000), … Continue reading
Ubuntu 9.10 and Bluetooth audio.
Following the release of the new 9.10 ‘Karmic Koala’ version of Ubuntu, we installed it on one of the Asus 901s, trying out a new configuration of all ext4 disk partitions and no swap partition. Discovering that the ‘Netbook Remix’ … Continue reading
Cheap IP cameras: the Edimax IC-3010WG
A much cheaper solution for IP video than the Axis Q7401, the Edimax IC-3010WG network camera is only ยฃ80 from use-IP.co.uk. For your money, you get a white plastic camera with a choice of wired or wifi network connections with … Continue reading
First look at the Axis video encoder.
Yesterday was our first opportunity to take the brand new Axis Q7401 video encoder for a test drive. It’s a well engineered and rugged unit which takes composite video and turns it into an M-JPEG or h.264 MPEG-4 stream. The … Continue reading
Trunking calls between Asterisk servers with IAX2.
At the end of last week we managed to create an IAX to IAX trunk between 2 asterisk servers on the local wired LAN. IAX trunking is a way to connect multiple Asterisk servers and allow clients of different servers … Continue reading