in other news, the graphics card works.
It's currently blissfully burning electricity to support the banksters my hubby and heating the flat (heating in my home office room is not really working)
As for the appliances bit: the idea is to have a mostly autonomous gizmo which can be reprogrammed on the fly (e.g. by shoving in a new SD card), has video processing in hardware (makes it easier for autonomous recognition and target aquisition and provides the data via a REST api that can easily be queried or interfaced into other systems. yes, you can do all of that in software, but FPGAs are far more elegant for what I have in mind.
Let's see. If that does not work out: boss came along and told me to
- get my system officially 24/7 ready
(I am sorry Dave, but I cannot do that. Going out and having all those managed services providers lined up against a wall is considered illegal where I come from)
- plan for lotsa integration work
oh well. I am sure that there is more than enough to do ...