Greetings List Lurkers,
Ah, it is good to have a good day, today was a good day, anyway so far...
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.
Bit Ed and Mrs. Alex Hutchinson continue to be great people. BOSI got
invited onto WGDR to talk about various topics, including open source,
the SolarFest and general technology, and this was a very positive, if
early experience.
WGDR was an excellent place to refine the presentation on the topic of
Open Source SNMP for both sink and source energy information transport,
Mrs. Alex ran the board, Bit Ed took a chair, we talked and the audience
likely understood 0.05% of what we said, but the chairs were nice.
Again, the presentation slides are available at:
http://docbox.flint.com/~flint/sfhtml/Solarfest_2013-07-12-5.html
One upshot of the Solarfest Presentation is a new web site dedicated to
the development of an open source Stream Gague.
(http://docbox.flint.com:8081/streambot) the proximitity detectors are on
the way and I hope to have an analog domain prototype by next week. This
is my first project with fritzing, all I can say is GET IT!
Aprpos of nothing, keep in mind the donated O'Reilly class books are still
available if anybody wants one...
We are expecting a lively G+ with Cole and Yarger from down south. Yarger may
actually get on the line and castigate me as I believe I have managed to break
the Snobot...
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 again, stay tuned.
Realistically, next 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 has exhibited at the Solarfest Mini Maker Fair, we still
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). Note I have added a new
reference site to a rPi based tsp which looks to be honest to be a step
ahead in the right direction, (drat :^).
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? Next week we play with robots rules...
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/streambot - this is the latest and is thin.
- 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, have
assembled 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,
and Solarfest the coolest 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.
It is 4:00 PM see you at the swim in one hour!
Kindest Regards,
Paul Flint
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