Re: [57north-discuss] [57north-announce] Tuesday!

2015-11-17 Thread Tony Travis
On 17/11/15 12:54, Doc Ocassi wrote: > Hello Everyone. > > It is Tuesday, you hear that, Tuesday, > > You Know what to do. Hi, Doc. I'll be in having a look at Carl's Banana Pi, which I've now got running Ubuntu and looking at the spec. of the Banana Pi router! Bye, Tony. -- Minke

[57north-discuss] Missing component

2015-11-17 Thread Tanev, Ventsislav
Dear hackers, I am a fourth year student at the University of Aberdeen doing Computing Science. I am working on a project regarding message payload and its relation to battery usage. I was going to simulate this with Arduino/Raspberry pi. The idea is to get sensor data and 1) form a

Re: [57north-discuss] Missing component

2015-11-17 Thread Robert McWilliam
On Tue, Nov 17, 2015, at 12:37, Tanev, Ventsislav wrote: > I was originally hoping to measure the current consumption with a > multimeter, but the current consumption might fluctuate too quick for > me to register meaningful data. What I believe will work is to measure > how much power will be

Re: [57north-discuss] [57north-announce] Tuesday!

2015-11-17 Thread Hibberd, Dave
It is Tuesday, you hear that, Tuesday, No, I won't talk, you can't force me! Oh, alright. I'll be in and about probably, muttering about things, stuff and likely one or two other bits and bobs. I'll be returning the Doc's possessions to the Doc, Probably ANSI art-ing for the BBS. I dunno

Re: [57north-discuss] [57north-announce] Tuesday!

2015-11-17 Thread Mike O'Hagan
Hi, If I come along tonight - would someone be able to hrlp me how to a Fritzing part? - I have Fritzing & Inkscape and will bring the laptop. (The Graphic LCD panel I have turns out to be type A - the one in Fritzing is type B - it only needs the pin labels rearranging and should be easy...but

Re: [57north-discuss] Missing component

2015-11-17 Thread Robert McWilliam
On Tue, Nov 17, 2015, at 17:00, Tanev, Ventsislav wrote: > For the logging of data I was originally thinking of running a loop > and constantly sending messages. Then measuring the current > consumption with the multimeter and getting some average over 20 sec. The big advantage of simplifying

Re: [57north-discuss] Missing component

2015-11-17 Thread Tanev, Ventsislav
For the logging of data I was originally thinking of running a loop and constantly sending messages. Then measuring the current consumption with the multimeter and getting some average over 20 sec. The other option - with the current sensor would be to do a measurement every 50ms for 20 sec and

Re: [57north-discuss] [57north-announce] Tuesday!

2015-11-17 Thread Neil Pilgrim
I shall be along, probably working on my latest ESP-01 board, possibly making dinging noises, making lua noises, and maybe mapping. Mike: I'm using Fritzing, but also haven't yet got to the stage of rejigging parts, at least not entirely successfully yet. So, interested to discuss it and see what

Re: [57north-discuss] Missing component

2015-11-17 Thread Doc Ocassi
Hello Ventislav I believe I have one of these. https://www.sparkfun.com/products/8882 Though I will have to where it is and exactly what it is, it is a hall effect, I will be at the space tonight. Doc On 17/11/15 12:37, Tanev, Ventsislav wrote: > Dear hackers, > > > I am a fourth year

Re: [57north-discuss] [57north-announce] Tuesday!

2015-11-17 Thread Tom Jones
On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 12:54:31PM +, Doc Ocassi wrote: > Hello Everyone. > > It is Tuesday, you hear that, Tuesday, > > You Know what to do. Wooo! Wait, what do I put here? Tomorrow being the third Wednesday of the month also means that it is TechMeetUp. In fact it is the last TechMeetUp

Re: [57north-discuss] [57north-announce] Tuesday!

2015-11-17 Thread Dave
No, I wasn't aware of this however it could be very beneficial to us. I'll not make it along in time, sadly. The closing date is November 30th, I'll put in some calls for advise from my sekrit societies and get an application in before then with the other directors. Andy, you're always down

[57north-discuss] odroid xu4, anyone wanting one less than rrp?

2015-11-17 Thread Andy Gaskell
Hiya Was anyone planning on buying an Odroid XU4? I've got one spare, and was going to return it, but just wanted to check if anyone wanted it. It's a beast of an mini sbc, see http://www.hardkernel.com/main/products/prdt_info.php for details. I tried it with Linux and Android and it works

[57north-discuss] odroid xu4, anyone wanting one less than rrp?

2015-11-17 Thread Andy Gaskell
> Hiya > > Was anyone planning on buying an Odroid XU4? > > I've got one spare, and was going to return it, but just wanted to check if anyone wanted it. > > It's a beast of an mini sbc, see http://www.hardkernel.com/main/products/prdt_info.php for details. I tried it with Linux and Android and