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 pomp 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 cleaned up the old class area.
I am making a new bootable Linux Mint 14 usb stick, with the gnome
interface, which remains the coolest thing of the month. If you need this
on your computer, and you do see me as I have Linux mint on another
boot-able USB still, 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. As 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, which
we just ordered. The theory here is you can graduate from a toy car to a
robot and not change a thing. So when the opto isolators come in we hook
them to the motor shield as the way to cascade H-bridges. This will no
doubt be placed in one of the new wire-mould boxes that allow for a roomy
enclose of the Arduino and a few shields. These big boxes allow for a
very nice fit, and pix shall be posted on G+ and the web site. The old
skinny wire-mould boxes are to 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. If you try this mount the pi pretty
far from the edges as you will need as much as one inch connector
clearance. 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.
Chris has had a death of the nice shiny HP stylus based flip top, rather
than send him back to LTSP, if anyone has any idea how to fix or a broken
HP stylus portable, say with a broken screen here is a great opportunity.
The "tsp" site has been updated: http://docbox.flint.com:8081/tsp there
are now live shots of the working beasts. We expect to get more pictures
and we have have pictures of the spiffy new enclosure. You will find on
the site the actual programs that exploit miniterm to gather date from the
Arduino based temperature sensors via the USB. I have completed the
software interface between the Arduino and mrtg and have what we need in
that department.
With mrtg you can trend the sample data, and this is 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
and Ras-BMC!).
The radio link work from the pellet furnace is now on the pbug development
system. 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, the
Raspberry Pi the coolest thing this year, and Ras-BMC the coolest thing
all month...
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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