Greetings List Lurkers,
This is the official notice of the Barre Open Systems Institute (BOSI)
Adult Swim. The swim stars at 5:00 PM EST, I am developing a real
love-hate relationship with google, as in the goggle hangout
https://www.google.com/calendar/render?pli=1 until 7:00 PM EST.
The big news is that the BOSI vice president, has realized that without a
pocket you do not have a geek tee shirt scam going...http://teespring.com/BOSI.
Our beloved VP is actually in town and will be (with any luck) making a
special guest appearance...
Bigger news is that the Raspberry Pi's are showing up in the mail, and it is
now time to play with them. What a sublime bit of engineering!
With this weather I would consider the Google Hangout approach if I
were you...
This weeks triumph of engineering was to actually get the first channel of
the mrtg temp sensor combination online, just in time for this freezing
weather. We did complete the changeover contactor switch-gear to flip the
water heater to electric whenever we get a hard alarm from the pellet
furnace. The switch hardware is actually elegant, the next to final part
involved obtaining and installing the proper NEMA plug/socket set for
220V. The final part is I am gonna use an external 24vdc supply rather
than blowing the one up in the pellet furnace.
Finished reading Bill McGibben's book "Eaarth"... It appears that
according to bill we will leave our children a planet fit for Vampires and
Flesh Eating Zombies (FEZs). If you knew my kids you would be comfortable with
this (at least they are not lawyers!). I am thinking about writing a
response.
The furmon is working but I need to rewrite the Arduino output for a bit more
sanity. Todays activates at the Swim are gonna involve checking out the
donated hardware we just acquired and writing this down.
The "tsp" site has been updated: http://docbox.flint.com:8081/tsp and we expect
to get more pictures and we have have pictures of the enclosure now as well as
snippets of mini-term and how you can remotely sample data. That said, we would
have gotten back to thinking about all the other projects, Javascript, the
snowbot and Robots Rules.
The ever growing list of projects includes:
- 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 - Temperature Sensors Project
- http://docbox.flint.com:8081/robotsrules - The quest for Roberts Rules -
- http://docbox.flint.com:8081/visual.bash - Yea, I am not kidding...
Otherwise, Barre indeed remains a great venue for a Linux and Open Source
Software meeting and general hucksterism. That said, we expect to acquire more
of the Dallas Semi "1-wire" temperature probes, and we just got another the
Arduino, with two ethernet shields. The shield TCP/IP stack is apparently done
in around 10K. We live in an age for miracles, this remains the coolest thing
all year. This all fits neatly in the magic plastic wire-mold box...
Do not forget that the Barre library stocks "Linux World", the DVD are soon to
be available, I just made isos of each and every one. Don't reveal your
source, as 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://family.flint.com/adult_swim_location/index_html
But the key appears broke. More stuff to fix, and still not fixed.
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. Note that I will be
updating the list-server by next week.
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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