I was looking on that website the tonight looking for shape memory alloys (muscle wires) and I saw a few manipulator arms.
If I remember correctly, they can only lift a few ounces, so I don't think that it will be able to pour you a soda, but I did see that they can be controlled via a serial port and a terminal program, otherwise you have to use some sort of control program written in DOS (yowza)!
Thats right! I forgot that it had the C API also...hell with that you could write a mod_essbase module for apache and make it really platform independent.
Of course we chose ASP because I work for a large company who's standards committee is hooked on Microsoft products.
About a year ago, I built a web front-end to the Essbase OLAP server..it was pretty tacky on the back-end, using a bunch of perl scripts and the Essbase Web Gateway, but it had a decent web interface and looked good enough to print from the browser to give to an executive.
I know that Essbase is pretty expensive, and the version i was using ran on a NT server. But i know they have ports to other platforms, and I _heard_ that they were considering porting it to Linux.
Also, since the system was pretty hard to maintain, the development team that I am on developed an ASP solution. Essbase has open Visual Basic APIs, so we wrote ASP components to hook into the OLAP server...it is still sitting in QA right now, but it seems to be really robust and has plenty of room to grow.
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I was looking on that website the tonight looking for shape memory alloys (muscle wires) and I saw a few manipulator arms.
If I remember correctly, they can only lift a few ounces, so I don't think that it will be able to pour you a soda, but I did see that they can be controlled via a serial port and a terminal program, otherwise you have to use some sort of control program written in DOS (yowza)!
Thats right! I forgot that it had the C API also...hell with that you could write a mod_essbase module for apache and make it really platform independent.
Of course we chose ASP because I work for a large company who's standards committee is hooked on Microsoft products.
About a year ago, I built a web front-end to the Essbase OLAP server..it was pretty tacky on the back-end, using a bunch of perl scripts and the Essbase Web Gateway, but it had a decent web interface and looked good enough to print from the browser to give to an executive.
I know that Essbase is pretty expensive, and the version i was using ran on a NT server. But i know they have ports to other platforms, and I _heard_ that they were considering porting it to Linux.
Also, since the system was pretty hard to maintain, the development team that I am on developed an ASP solution. Essbase has open Visual Basic APIs, so we wrote ASP components to hook into the OLAP server...it is still sitting in QA right now, but it seems to be really robust and has plenty of room to grow.
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