Developers
The software is currently undergoing intensive development and code from different work-in-progress projects will be merged with the general code base. We believe that in order to create a state-of-the-art surgical simulator, we need to collaborate closey with research and external communities who have the vast experience and expertise needed.The user-centred design of the simulator emphasizes on creating a comprehensive solution to the most pressing needs and requirements of the medical community for simulator based surgical training.
Forsslund Systems wishes to contribute to the advancement of these technologies, and specifically in the surgical simulation field. We are releasing the source code used in our simulator as Free and Open Source Software.
We value any contribution very much and hope to have the chance to work with you! If you are new to free and open source software development, don't hesitate to contact This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it for advice.
Platforms and HW requirements
Forssim can be run on a regular computer, a computer with a haptic device or with a full scale simulator setup such as the Forsslund Systems reference design (that wooden box you might have seen on www.forsslundsystems.se). In this chapter
we will guide you through the setup related to the configuration you have. All setups are based on Ubuntu GNU/Linux distribution
but you are of course welcome to use any other distribution.
Ubuntu 9.04 was released in April 2009 and is our main supported distribution.
Currently, the three supported hardware/software configurations are:
- Regular - a computer with decent Nvidia* graphics card. We recommend a Core2duo (or even Core2Quad) and Nvidia Geforce 8800 (or better)
- HapticStation - a computer as above, with IEEE1394 (firewire) port plus a SensAble Omni haptic device
- Alban - a computer with Core2Quad, Nvidia Quadro 3700, printer port, IEEE1394 (firewire), StereoGraphics emitter and shutter glasses plus Phantom Desktop haptic device
* We only use Nvidia cards ourselves, and do not recommend use of ATI/AMD based cards due to infamous driver issues. If you have such card and it does work well for you, please contact us and we will perhaps change the recommendation.
We recommend that you use two screens to get the best use of the graphical user interface.
License
GNU GPL v2 or later.
New releases
The latest release of forssim is 0.2.2, released 24th of July 2009.
Download from launchpad: forssim_0.2.2.tar.gz
The latest release of forssim_dependencies is 0.2.0, released 10th of July 2009.
Download from launchpad: forssim_dependencies_0.2.0.tar.gz
How to download and install forssim
Read more at Getting Started.
How to contribute
Read more at Contribute to Forssim.
How to get support
Use our mailing list or ask your question at the question system of launchpad
