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.
The google-cast may actually be a little bit better this session, as we
have actually made some progress in the old lab.
We are adopting Linux Mint 14, with the gnome interface as the coolest
thing of the month. If you need this on your computer, and you do see me
as I have Linux mint on a boot-able USB Again, the bad news is that this
boot-able distro fits requires a DVD (it is 890 off megs).
This week, many things have been in play. The right controller for the
snobot is actually here. Bit Ed has helped with figuring out how to
cascade Arduino motor control shield H-bridges to the Big Ass FETS (BAFs)
that run the two control motors. The plan is to use opto-isolators. 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?
The new wire-mould boxes that allow for a roomy enclose of the Arduino and
a few shields are very nice. These allow for a very nice fit, and pix
shall be posted on G+ and the web site. The old skinny wire-mould boxes
may end up in the furmon project.
The Raspberry Pi also needs an enclosure, the idea for and enclosure for
the pi is to use an old 5.25" floppy box, this works great, again, I
expect to get this up as pictures. Chris demonstrated and installed
"Andro-Mouse" which is a series of apps for an Android controller and a
Java controlled. This is very slick and we should have a web page set up
for it ASAP.
Now that Chris has a nice shiny HP stylus based flip top, the project of
using the pi as a tftp boot server for old laptops has depreciated, but is
still out there... That said, piLTSP or edupi is still a very cool idea,
and will no doubt be based upon LTSP.
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. I have been laboring on
the software interface between the Arduino and mrtg and feel that we are
very close to what we need in that department.
With this you can trend the 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!).
We just got a radio link work from the pellet furnace. This is a
milestone since we now have live data to play with. For more information
see the furmon site as detailed below.
The ever growing list of projects includes:
- http://docbox.flint.com:8081/furmon - monitor that pellet furnace.
- 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 system rejuvenation. That said, we expect to
assemble more of the Dallas Semi "1-wire" temperature probes, and we have
the two Arduinos, with Ethernet shields.
Needless to say the Arduino remains the coolest thing for 2012 and the
Raspberry Pi the cooled thing this year.
Do not forget that the Barre library stocks "Linux World", and the latest
issue is here. The DVD's are available to checkout and copy, as I just
made isos of each and every one.
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
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