Well, I've returned home (hopefully for a while this time), and am starting
to make a list of all the LRP things I haven't gotten to recently that need
to get done. Once I get caught up on e-mail (600 messages in the LRP list,
but they go quick), paying bills and the like, I plan on digging in and
doing some long-overdue LRP stuff.
The first thing on the list is to fix my web server. I have a new system
built, and am about 90% done with a HOWTO that goes through installing 2.9.8
as a thin-server system with ROOT ON A SCSI RAID array (ie no root ramdisk).
Hopefully, some of what I did can mesh nicely with ladybug. I also need to
re-structure my site so the content integrates nicely into SourceForge,
seperate the downloadable files from the web content, allowing the ftp and
web to access the same file repository, and various other general
housekeeping. Finally, I need to bring my co-lo site online, which will
likely become my primary site, unless bandwith usage forces me to migrate to
SF's free bandwidth.
I welcome any input or help on restructuring/updating my site. I will
likely also migrate away from FrontPage 2000 for web development, since
other folks may be editing the site. I'm currently thinking about going
with DreamWeaver, but would appreciate thoughts on this as well.
Other items to deal with once the web site is taken care of:
- Updated weblet lrp:
Incoprerate web page enhancements from list members
Include bandwidth monitoring java applet
Add connection keep-alive support <optional>
- IPSec V1.8 (or maybe 1.9 by now)
- Setup snmp/mrtg (and write HOWTO)
- Updated EigerStein images
- Cardbus & WaveLAN suport <optional, see below>
- Motor controller/interface circuitry & software <see below>
- Whatever else I didn't think of here...
!! - WOW - !!
In addition, waiting for me when I got home was one of the Embedded Linux
Journal development kits. The box includes Blue-Cat linux, a PC-104 board
using the ZF-Linux MachZ chip, an 8 Meg DiskOnChip, 32 Meg SDRAM, a PC-104
to ISA backplane, ISA VGA & ethernet cards, floppy disk, power supply,
cables, and pretty much everything needed to make a working embedded system,
even an O-Reilly book on programming embedded systems. I guess it was worth
sending off an application for the ELJ design contest!
Current plans call for the PC-104 system to become the controller in my next
robot (a middle-weight for the May 24-27 BattleBots event in San Francisco).
I'm not sure yet if I'll use wireless NIC's or my current R/C system, but
the computer will be doing active servo control regardless. I'll probably
start with LRP on the computer system, but may check out BlueCat to see what
it's like.
Charles Steinkuehler
http://lrp.steinkuehler.net
http://c0wz.steinkuehler.net (lrp.c0wz.com mirror)
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