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, our latest vanity being to include a
goggle hangout https://www.google.com/calendar/render?pli=1 until 7:00 PM EST.
We will continue communing on the google-cast and discussing all the
projects I am late in delivering...
Debug, we don't need no steenking debug.
First let me state that the combination of screen and gedit is sustaining
me... Who knows, I may actually start using bash debuggers...na...
Stop the presses.
The coolest thing of the week is Linux Mint. The bad news is that this
bootable distro fits requires a DVD (it is 890 off megs), the good news is
that this rocks my world. An alternative to kubunu is most welcome!!!
An apparently sane implementation of the beloved gnome... This will be a
significant subject for this afternoons meeting.
This week, many things have been in play. The right controller for the
snobot may actually be on it's way. We still need help with is how to
somehow cascade Arduino motor control shield H-bridges to the Big Ass FETS
(BAFs) that run the two control motors. The idea here is you can graduate
from a toy car to a robot and not change a thing. Anybody got any ideas
about how to cascade H-bridges?
I have the new wiremould boxes that allow for a roomy enclose of the
Arduino and a few shields. This allows for a very nice fit, and will be
posted on G+ and the web site as soon as the Lorazopan takes effect.
Finally as I mentioned last week the BOSI VP, Chris Yarger got himself a
new mini electric car. So that's were we are gonna scale from.
The Raspberry Pi also needs an enclosure, after I get back from the
exercise walk the wife insists upon, I am gonna try out an idea for and
enclosure for the pi. This will also get be up as pictures. Chris has
been distracted from using the pi as a tftp boot server for old laptops.
That said it is still a very cool idea, and will no doubt be based upon
LTSP. Anyone want to call this "edupi"?
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 spiffy new
enclosure now as well as the actual programs that exploit miniterm to
gather date from the Arduino based temperature sensors via the USB. With
this you can remotely sample data, and there will be an example that shows
you how to configure MRTG to display this date. That said, we should have
gotten back to thinking about all the other projects, Javascript, the
snowbot and Robots Rules. We are making no progress...(damn you
Netflix!), particularly "House of Cards"...
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...
- http://docbox.flint.com:8081/mrtg - remedial raw mrtg for the slow...
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
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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