Greetings List Lurkers,
Welcome to your official notice of the Barre Open Systems Institute (BOSI)
Adult Swim. The swim stars at 5:00 PM), this is despite the fact that I
appear to have seriously sprained my ankle while marching in the
Northfield Labor Day parade... The ankle is nothing compared to the agony
(and ecstasy) of dealing with the all manner of technology, with
an emphasis on open source stuff, particularly the Arduino.
Chris Yarger and I are dated up to do a presentation on this system at the
Maker Fair in Burlington (http://www.champlainmakerfaire.com/) on
September 29th. The damn thing is actually letting me know that the water
temperature out of our "hippie" water heater is 111 degrees f... Now to
plot it. Sometime we will publish on the site pictures of the latest
incarnation of the TSP, and the current applications. Again, the pellet
furnace, and temperature monitoring projects all seem to
converge around this Amtel chip set.
Other projects that tend to gather dust or move in spurts 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
http://docbox.flint.com:8081/snowbot - The snowbot autoplow...
The snowbot money pit...
On the subject of the snowbot, Chris guilt-ed me into spending $160.00 on
new batteries and I got a 250 Amp rectifier to fix my battery charger
(this thing is a beast) The very cool part of this use of a quad chair is
that the controller has serious physical compatibility with the Arduino.
What we really need now is some technical documentation...(closed source
sucks). Soon I will once again roll into Barre Coins and hobbies, where
you can spend money like it was water, and maybe get the next step a model
car radio controller. Either with the 300 Amp motor controller, or
hacking the existing controller output section, add the batteries we can
test the damn thing. That said, anybody got a plow?
As you you already know that A "snowbot" is a rumba with a snow plow or
blower, I am going to continue to bet on global warming for now. As
mentioned here before, we have a parted out hi-quad wheelchair with the
kind of linear actuators that might do the trick.
We are seriously considering going our on the net and finding well-healed
patrons to realize the research potential of the Barre Open Systems
Institute and cut us a large check.
Otherwise Barre indeed remains a great venue for a Linux and Open Source
Software meeting, even on Labor Day. 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, but we are ordering a
Raspberry Pie, now that I have held one in my hand...
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.
Kindest Regards,
Paul Flint
(802) 479-2360
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Paul Flint
(802) 479-2360
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Paul Flint
Barre Open Systems Institute
17 Averill Street
Barre, VT
05641
http://www.bosivt.org
http://www.flint.com/home
skype: flintinfotech
Work: (202) 537-0480
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