Greetings List Lurkers,
Welcome to your official notice of the Barre Open Systems Institute (BOSI)
Adult Swim. The swim stars at 5:00 PM), when we shall continue the agony and
ecstasy of dealing with the all manner of technology, with an emphasis on open
source stuff, along with my continuing fetish involving the Arduino.
What I am looking for is a "subtractive" 3-D printing process. It turns
out that making stone or wood sculptures might be a profitable activity.
(Think wooden garden bears...:^)
The "tsp" site has been updated: http://docbox.flint.com:8081/tsp and will
be containing more pictures as the project goes forward. Chris Yarger is
on deck to do a presentation on this system at the Maker Fair in
Burlington (http://www.champlainmakerfaire.com/) on September 29th.
There are some pictures of the latest incarnation of the TSP on the site.
The hardware configuration is ***Elegant***, I say this with all humility.
I saw how "Wired" wanted to enclose and it and this blows. Our enclosure
method kicks ass. Again, the pellet furnace, and temperature monitoring
projects all seem to converge around this Amtel chip set.
Other ongoing, or maybe not so ongoing... projects that tend to gather here (or
hair :^) include:
http://docbox.flint.com:8081/arduino - moving in the arduino groove
http://docbox.flint.com:8081/javajive - to get better at Javascript
http://docbox.flint.com:8081/tsp - Temprature Senors Project
http://docbox.flint.com:8081/furmon - Furnace Monitoring
The snowba money pit...
On the subject of the snowba, beyond $200.00 worth of batteries required for
the base of the snowba, I went very nuts and walked into Barre Coins and
hobbies, there you can spend money like it was water, and maybe get where you
need to go. I found a 300 Amp motor controller for $50.00. Once we get
batteries we can test the damn thing. If it will drive the main weels, I will
buy the other. As you you arleady know that A "snowba" is a rumba with a
snowblower, I am going to continue to bet on global warming for now. As we
mentioned before, w have a parted out hi-quad wheelchair with the kind of
linear actuators that might do the trick. Anyway I keep hoping...
Otherwise Barre indeed remains a great venue for a Linux and Open Source
Software meeting. That said, continue to find our grubby mitts on the Dallas
Semi "1-wire" temperature probes, and the Arduino is clearly the coolest thing
all year.
Note well that the Barre library stocks "Linux World", the DVD are available as
well. Don't reveal your source, I think I have some fines overdue...
Anyway, come and do open source stuff. For more information about the BOSI
Adult Swim meeting time and location try this:
http://www.flint.com/adult_swim_location/index_html
Show up at the the Hedding United Methodist Church Basement if you have
questions or are interested in Linux or the concept of free and open systems,
The basement of the Hedding UMC facility is actually working out pretty well.
If you wish to be included on the "Linux_adult_swim" mailing list, send a
response to this note. Note that the mailing list system is a bit peevish
right now. Let me know if you have any difficulties.
Pardon my repitition but I gotta go catch a bus...
Kindest Regards,
Paul Flint
(802) 479-2360
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Barre Open Systems Institute
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Barre, VT
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Work: (202) 537-0480
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