In this fulfilling self-improvement, more than a month passed in a flash.
During this process, not only did Xia Xu's own abilities and knowledge grow substantially, but the companies and projects under his command also made progress.
The first was Huichuang Hi-Tech, which was acquired from Zhou Xiaodong. It has now been renamed Xinghai Industry and has recruited a group of scientific researchers. It also leveraged the connections that Chen Leyao built for Xinghai Venture Capital to reach cooperation with multiple software and hardware manufacturers, suppliers, and material suppliers.
After this, Xia Xu, who had already achieved some success, brought Xiao Baihua to officially move into the Xinghai Industry Research Institute, and the design of robots gradually turned from practical entertainment to formal.
No mechanical manufacturing company could develop all the hardware by itself. It was certainly not possible for a rookie like him and Xinghai Industry, which had a weak technical background. All hardware had to be purchased and customized.
However, the hardware selection and adoption, structural design, appearance design, functional design, etc. were all presided over by Xia Xu himself, who was getting better and better.
With the super brain potion, one can learn things very quickly. The significance of scientific research talent lies not only in learning ability but also in creativity, ideas, and perspective on things.
Although he has no talent for mechanical engineering, he is not a fool.
Although he may not be able to come up with any groundbreaking technology after the super brain potion solved the problem of knowledge, he can still simply construct the existing technology and software and hardware into what he wants.
As for how to optimize the functions and appearance, how to solve defects and bugs, etc., this does not require him to work alone behind closed doors.
With the ability to mobilize cash, Zhou Xiaodong and other relevant talents have joined the R&D team to assist in supplementing and filling in the gaps. Various existing robot cases and the centipede robot left by Pan Yuanhang can also be used as references.
As for software, of course, simple ones are handed over to outsourcing companies, while the difficult ones are handed over to his personal programmer, Xiao Tang. For some parts that require additional professional knowledge in addition to program writing, a group of experts are also hired to provide assistance and consultation at all times.
So, more than a month later, Xia Mechanic Xu's debut work was released at the speed of light.
"Boss, this batch of hardware from Spot Industries is obviously much better than the previous ones. The CPU performance has increased by nearly 20%, and the performance of the servo motor is even more amazing. However, the multi-spectral lenses from the old manufacturer Rexchip Optics are more mature and stable..."
"Then let's adopt this solution for now, and then slowly debug and optimize it later."
Inside the Xinghai Industrial Research Institute, Xia Xu, who was wearing a pair of sunglasses that looked very similar to smart glasses but with black and red lenses, was listening to Zhou Xiaodong and others' reports while bending over and concentrating on soldering the circuits.
In fact, compared to the robot he pieced together through half learning and half practice, the first research result, or improvement result, was actually smart glasses.
The strength of the smart glasses left by Pan Yuanhang lies only in the brain control technology they are equipped with. In other aspects, the hardware is no longer top-notch after years of iteration, and the software is just a crude product of the open source Android mobile phone system. It is only used for perfunctory testing and no effort has been put into its refinement.
So during the past month or so, in addition to teaching Xiao Baihua robot design, he also tried to iterate the hardware and optimize the structure and appearance of the smart glasses. He then let Xiao Baihua try out the system of the smart glasses and tried to optimize and transform it.
Of course, not much can be done in one month, and the main focus is still on the robot, so he didn't ask Xiao Baihua to do much. Apart from optimizing some details, the main task was to redo Pan Yuanhang's shoddy brain-control operating software.
They naturally have no say in the brain-controlled interaction technology, but the brain-control software that provides the visual images, or the display system of the entire smart glasses, is really too poor.
Pan Yuanhang's design idea is obviously to position this pair of smart glasses as an AR device, augmented reality technology.
As the name suggests, AR devices are based on reality and use technical means to supplement and enhance reality.
To put it simply, the lenses of the smart glasses do not block the normal field of vision, so you can see the surrounding environment normally, but the virtual images generated on the lenses integrate the two, allowing you to see additional virtual objects and pictures in your normal field of vision.
It’s not that there is anything wrong with this design itself, but the technology in this area is clearly not mature at present.
Tiny virtual objects are fine, but if you want to fully display the video images sent back by the remote control device without affecting the normal field of vision, 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, you will be in a dilemma of being unable to see clearly or even unable to see at all.
After all, even if a device like a mobile phone is set to the highest brightness, it will be difficult to see clearly under the sun, let alone the image displayed on a transparent lens and blurred.
It is difficult to even see clearly under the sun, let alone the application scenarios where brain control technology needs to be used to quickly and clearly identify the returned images to make decisions.
It is for this reason that Xia Xu said that the smart glasses made by Pan Yuanhang were just a crudely made prototype. They were fine for laboratory testing, but were useless when actually worn out for use.
So after he had cram school on the basic knowledge of electronic mechanics, the first thing he did was to guide Xiao Baihua on how to operate the 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 at the normal level is still slightly ahead.
The optimization and transformation method is not difficult. It is to change the AR mode (augmented reality) of smart glasses to the VR mode (virtual reality) which is more familiar to many people and has a relatively lower threshold.
Of course, devices like smart glasses are actually quite vague on the boundary between these two technologies.
Augmented reality is just using lenses to display additional images on top of the normal field of vision, and virtual reality is just turning everything into 'virtual'.
In short, it no longer uses transparent display lenses like normal glasses, but is replaced by a dark red lens screen, completely abandoning the normal direct vision of children.
As for the lack of field of vision, it is certainly not like wearing VR glasses and being completely immersed and blind, but using the camera lens to capture the image and then projecting it onto the display lens.
This not only solves problems with image brightness and clarity, but also allows the image to be pre-processed.
For example, enhancing clarity, marking key points, displaying parameters, zooming in and out, and even if you don't mind the trouble, you can use beauty effects or mosaics on the images you don't want to see with a little development.
It just so happened that Pan Yuanhang's smart glasses were designed with a micro-lens at the corner of his eye for collecting data. After replacing it with a lens with better performance, his image could be directly called instead of the field of view.
Therefore, although the model of smart glasses transformation has changed, it is actually just a hardware iteration and replacing the lenses with black and red displays, which is mainly a software modification.
Moreover, the software is based on the Android system and does not need to be written from scratch. Many existing software and technologies can also be compatible and can be used after just some modifications. For Tang Youxin today, it is really a trial work that she can easily come up with in her spare time.
As for their actual work...
"La la la, Xiao Xia's number one has been successfully activated! Go for it!"
After the assembly was completed and the machine was turned on, the cheerful and sweet voice of Little White Flower came through the speaker of the robot in front of him.
"When did they add such an embarrassing startup sound effect?!"
Xia Xu's face turned a little red, and Zhou Xiaodong beside him couldn't help but hold back his laughter.
On the table in front of him was a robot the size of a basketball, shaped like a spider. As the shell had not yet been painted, it was currently the common silver color of metal, but it was polished to a shiny silver finish.
Arachnid predator.
Both the appearance and the name are somewhat similar to the tarantula.
God have mercy on him, he really designed this thing for combat purposes. Although the voice of the little white flower is cute, it is too embarrassing to build it into it.
Can you imagine that, facing the enemy, he coolly puts on smart glasses, controls several basketball-sized spider robots in a menacing manner, and then hears such a startup sound effect
I'm afraid I'll be embarrassed on the spot and feel socially awkward in an instant, and I'll be able to dig out a three-bedroom apartment from the soles of my feet.
"Comrade Xiao Tang, is your butt itchy again? Go ahead, believe it or not, I will..."
After taking a look at Zhou Xiaodong and the others' snickering faces, Xia Xu finally "fled" and walked aggressively towards the studio that was allocated exclusively for Tang Youxin.