Blind Assistant is an attempt to help blind human, using softwares that run not on expensive and complex hardware, but on a simple Sony PSP.

Blind Assistant uses Nanodesktop tecnology for windows environment, it is able to speak with the user using ndFLite, a porting of the speech synthesis engine originally developed by the Carnegie Mellon University and it is able to recognizes the name and the position of the people that are present in that moment in your room, using complex algorithms (as Intel EigenFaces/PentLand PCA).

The face recognition tecnology is provided using ndOpenCV, a porting of the original Intel OpenCV libraries developed by the same author of the Blind Assistant and of the Nanodesktop SDK.

Filippo Battaglia’s version of ndOpenCV improves the Intel code because the algorithms have been modified in way to use EMI (Enhanced Mathematical Interface), an API integrated in Nanodesktop system, and written totally in assembly, that is able to use Sony VFPU to speed up the necessary computations. Using EMI, we can obtain the necessary CPU power.

This program works only on PSP custom firmwares. It has been tested (under PSPE and PSP) with the CF 3.71 M33-4, 3.80 e 3.90 M33-3. The program is able to auto-update itself using the wireless connection.

The actual version of BlindAssistant is able to recognize the name of the people that are present in front of the blind.

http://forums.qj.net/showthread.php?t=140987

Here is an attempt to bring Google Maps to the PSP with a simple interface. This program is not using the Google Maps API (except for address search), it is retrieving the images directly.

Changes:

* fixed Google Map views
* added window title and icon for PC version

http://royale.zerezo.com/psp/

Simple explorer application for Wii.

Features:

create directories
delete directories recursively
create empty files
delete files
move and rename dirs and files

Thanks to http://www.nintendomax.com for the news.

http://wiibrew.org/index.php?title=Homebrew_apps/SD_Explorer

Snake for Wii is a Wii homebrew version of the game Snake.

Changes:

Added Wiimote Support
Added New Look And feel
Added Score Displaying while the Game is running
Added eyecandy

http://wiibrew.org/index.php?title=Homebrew_apps/Snake

Wii Homebrew Launcher is an interface similar to that of the Wii menu. It allows you to start homebrew stored on your SD card in the Wii front SD slot. Each program is represented by its own customizable “channel”.

http://wiibrew.org/index.php?title=Homebrew_apps/Wii_Homebrew_Launcher

WiiPoker is a homemade version of Jacks or Better Video Poker for the Wii. It is written with libogc and GRRLIB. The source also includes a generic card game library written to enable rapid development of any card game for the Wii.

http://wiibrew.org/index.php?title=Homebrew_apps/WiiPoker

The latest edition of the Gamecube/Wii toolchain now uses NewLIB v1.16.0 with updated patches to allow LIBfat to be ported. As usual, windows users should grab this update through the automated updater.

http://www.devkitpro.org/category/devkitppc/

The latest edition of the Gamecube/Wii toolchain now uses NewLIB v1.16.0 with updated patches to allow LIBfat to be ported. As usual, windows users should grab this update through the automated updater.

http://www.devkitpro.org/category/devkitppc/

Please note that the port of VLC is NOT public yet, but available to ZodTTD’s beta-testers.

Quote:

VLC by is a popular multi-format video and audio player for a wide variety of systems. Within the past few days I have successfully ported over VLC to the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch. I have also built and used my ogg4iphone frontend for vlc4iphone.

What is vlc4iphone capable of? At the moment it may be limited by only a small handfull of decoders, but soon that list will grow! It currently allows you to drag and drop the following popular media formats onto your iPhone/iPod Touch for playback: MPEG / MPG,AVI,MP3.
It also supports some lesser known media formats.

Soon it will play: FLAC,OGG
I am also researching playback of: VCD,DivX,WMA,WMV

Currently vlc4iphone is only available to ZodTTD.com Beta Testers though as more decoders get implemented and some bugs fixed up, a public release will be made with source code found at my git repo in the downloads section of the forum. This should all happen very soon.

Beta testers, you should see vlc4iphone v0.5.0 available in your ZodTTD.com Installer.app beta repo.

What codecs do you want to see supported? Let your voice be heard, reply to this article.

http://www.zodttd.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1994

WintenDOS is a shell application for Nintendo DS.

Thanks to http://www.nintendomax.com for the news.

http://wintendos.olympe-network.com/