Flint, What did you do to my baby??!!!
Regards, Chris yarger Sent from my iPod On Jul 8, 2013, at 3:34 PM, Paul Flint <[email protected]> wrote: > Greetings List Lurkers, > > 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. > > Today has been completely wasted on an upgrade from Vista to Linux Mint > Cinnamon. The main NT partition seems to have a virus that has taken over > the SAM and causes the system to exit with the "dirty" disk flag set. No > self respecting installer will allow Linux to co-exist in this condition, and > I cannot for the life of me figure out how to clean up the dirt. > > So I am down to knives and bearskins...(rsync and god forbid "dd" :^) > > The great news is that BOSI has been invited to the Mini Maker fair at the > Solar Fest in Tinmouth. We will be there on July 14th. > > Again a local benefactor, has arranged for the Adult Swim to handle the > re-distribution of the excellent collection of O'Reilly class books into the > arms of the awaiting young geeks as they arrive. This is what we live for. > > Our latest idea involves setting up a PXE boot distribution loader at the > Barre library which would allow folks to enter the library, and load onto > their equipment the distribution of their choice. While this would be a free > service and would not defray the cost of the LinuxWorld subscription it would > tend to center Open Source activity and extend outreach in Barre, which might > be a model for other state library institutions. > > With Yarger down south, activity on the Snobot has slowed to a crawl. I > believe I have managed to break it... > > Again, we have posted a partial working pin-out of the output board on the > snobot web site, look for Control Module for Ranger II MWD - current diagram. > At risk of repetition, the real payoff was to realize that a 24V APC without > batteries is an excellent power center and can charge the 24V general > batteries on the bot, as well as supply 110VAC for all sorts of nefarious > purposes. At the end of the day this breakthrough is the use of the > capability of adapting the APC UPS so that we can charge the snobot traction > pack and use the extra space where the old battery went to install the motor > system control. Pictures are on G+, Yarger has a video commentary up and > additional still and motion pictures shall be forthcoming. Now that the right > controller and power system are complete for the snobot, the damn thing will > be visiting Adult Swim again today, and we can begin the real Robot issue, > software... > > The FM project http://docbox.flint.com:8081/raspberry/pifm/index_html Turning > the rPi into an FM transmitter remains a solution looking for a problem. > There are numerous applications for this technology, stay tuned. > > This week 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 remains fairly > cool... Putting the latest set of labels on as we speak... > > Now that BOSI will exhibit at the Solarfest Mini Maker Fair, we really need > to clean up the "tsp" site (http://docbox.flint.com:8081/tsp) suddenly we > need to organize the now live shots and consolidated shots of the working > beasts (look at the first three links off this site). The goal is to get the > pictures and text 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)... > > At this point we have a working version of the the furmon project. The final > refactoring will make the entire beast a single python program. As mentioned > again last week about the furmon, 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. Regarding the furmon, with mrtg you can trend the sample > data, I want to also exploit pylab, an include that makes time-series data > plotting and analysis a snap. Maybe this coming week, with snobot keeping > everyone else out of my hair, we have the furmon at least to a release point. > Now to get more live winter data. > > Kevin has taken package management to the level where we may able to release > the code using the "quickly" product to package code as ".deb"s. Once I have > completed this I will cite this in yet another wiki. Watch this space... > The need to package software makes me reconsider my release dates, say two > weeks from now. > > Robotsrules.org has had some new stuff added. Who knew that there was a > python tarball apparently available? > > I am really looking foreword to going to the Barry Library and reading the > latest issue of Linux World. > > The ever growing list of projects includes: > - http://docbox.flint.com:8081/snobot - jesum they love this robot > - 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! > - http://docbox.flint.com:8081/music - this may be the least organized > site ever! > > 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 a boat load > of radio modules, and an embarrassment of riches in terms of books. > > 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, PiFm the coolest thing for June. My bet is > that Solarfest will be the coolest thing in July. > > Do not forget that the Barre library stocks "Linux World", and the latest > issue is on the shelf. The DVD's are available to checkout and copy, we > intend to continue provide copies and 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. > > > Kindest Regards, > > Paul Flint > > /************************************ > Based upon email reliability concerns, > please send an acknowledgment in response to this note. > > Paul Flint > Barre Open Systems Institute > 17 Averill Street > Barre, VT > 05641 > > http://www.bosivt.org > http://www.flint.com/home > skype: flintinfotech > (802) 479-2360 Home > (802) 595-9365 Cell > > Consilium _ > gratuitum .~. ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) > valet /V\ against HTML e-mail X > quanti /( )\ www.asciiribbon.org / \ > numerantur ^^-^^ > _______________________________________________ > Linux_adult_swim mailing list > [email protected] > http://docbox.flint.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux_adult_swim
