Greetings List Lurkers,
I actually started using the number pad on my original 5151-style keyboard
with a glide-point and full number pad, the number pad of which is fully
supported under mint, and was mysteriously gone under Ubuntu.
It is minty fresh.
I guess the answer at the end of the day is labels (www.glabels.org) this
simple expedient helped us to win the battle against Drek. Guidance
methods and results will shortly be posted to
http://docbox.flint.com:8081/organized. Chris Yarger deserves a bit of
thanks...
So, this is the official notice of the Barre Open Systems Institute (BOSI)
Adult Swim. The swim stars at 5:00 PM EST, our continued vanity being to
include a goggle hangout https://www.google.com/calendar/render?pli=1 until
7:00 PM EST.
The google-cast aspect works well enough. Presuming that we have network
connectivity (presume away :^), again, I continue to want to see if we can
direct the video babble fest towards general community understanding of
git version control and why git is the most important thing in the world.
The hope is that we can once again hold for with Kevin Cole G+'ing in from
DC, and maybe some special guests with serious git insight to boot at 5:00
EST. Kevin can report on the great DC hackathon...
While it is one thing to get the technology ready and tested it is an
entirely other thing to get the politics lined up. We are still waiting
to go ahead with this lovely bit of technology. The EnGenius directional
801.11 G distance WAN between the Barre Old Labor Hall and the Barre
Central Library shall be tested as a link between the Old Labor hall and
Pellet House Barre. Even given that the goal here is to allow the library
another source of income, so that we can help defray the cost of the
LinuxWorld subscription physical access to one of the facilities is
stalled. Needless to say, these radio link things are very cool. The radio
links for 802.11 can go about 2 miles, we are looking for other test sites
as well. Want 300 Mb/s for about 2 miles? Respond and we can set you up.
The opto isolators as well as the right controller are now here for the
snobot. The lab is back online. We are in the process of developing a
complete working pinout of the output board. Bit Ed helped us figure out
about how to cascade Arduino motor control shield H-bridges to the Big Ass
FETS (BAFs) that run the two control motors, we are instead wusing out
and using optoisolated logic level inputs. The good news is that the
stationary test platform has been completed and is being used. The real
breakthrough in this area is the discovery that we can charge the snowbot
traction pack via an old APC UPS. Take out the old SLA batteries and go
traction.
Again, the latest in rPi land is here:
http://docbox.flint.com:8081/raspberry/pifm/index_html Turning the rPi
into an FM broadcast transmitter is a joint venture between Yarger, DTG
and Flint... This while having been neglected, is currently the coolest
thing this month.
We hope to expand use of "Andro-Mouse", which is a series of apps for an
Android controller and a Java control element. That said, ListNote, which we
are using as part of the great garage gestation is also fairly cool...
The "tsp" site has stabilized (http://docbox.flint.com:8081/tsp) there are now
live shots and consolidated shots of the working beasts (look at the first
three links off this site). One goal is to get the pictures better organized,
and we expect to have pictures of the spiffy new enclosure. You will find on
the site the actual programs that exploit the python miniterm class to gather
data from the Arduino based temperature sensors via the USB. The software
interface between the Arduino and mrtg is solid and have what we need in that
department. This baby is done for the first phase, now for the rewrite, after
we get organized (the triple t's again)...
With mrtg you can trend the sample data, and this is an example that shows you
how to configure MRTG to display this date. Did you remember to play with
pylab, an include that makes time-series data plotting and analysis a snap.
Hopefully this coming week will let us play more with pylab, but git has
priority!
As mentioned again last week, the Xbee 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 software should launch, OK - or maybe later.
Testing on the 802.11 transmitter that can replace the point-to-point
system, is completed, we are just waiting the the right customer...
Reading Linux World made me realize that I need Unit Tests for the
furmon...which ground to a halt this week.
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...
- http://docbox.flint.com:8081/raspberry - all rPi'ness
- http://docbox.flint.com:8081/organized - oh please let me be organized!
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 two
Arduinos, with lots of fixin's as well as several Raspberry Pi's and a boat
load of radio modules.
Needless to say the Arduino remains the coolest thing for 2012, the Raspberry
Pi the coolest thing so far for 2013, and Ras-BMC the coolest thing for the
month of April, xBMC for May, and PiFm the coolest thing for June...
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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