Greetings List Lurkers,
Spring is in the air here in Beautiful Barre, and this last week I have
remained fascinated with my number one son's bright idea, high powered
Light Emitting Diode array illumination.
This Bright Idea now has a name, LEDroid, and oddly enough, a web site:
http://ledroid.org/
I have been working on this stuff and truly find it fascinating. Anyone
out there who has ideas about Very Bright illumination, drop me a line, as
it has been a very illuminating experience for yours truly. This project
will no doubt by next week find a place in the project list below.
The damn LED arrays want about 40 VDC; then you need cooling
fans...Arduino and who knows what else. What we have come up with is what
I am affectionately referring to as the "Berserker-mod" for a standard PC
power supply. While this actually works, I am still banging out the
engineering you will need to make this work. Check out the LEDroid site
for more information.
All this activity continues put a crimp in new shower at casa open source.
Later today I intend to call the good folks at Vermont Computing
Cooperative of Randolph Vermont which we had the pleasure of visiting last
month. We should all attend as Ian, Matt, Bob, Dan et al. have taken Open
Source by the horns and formed a Worker owned computer cooperative. This
remains the candidate for the coolest thing of the month. I really think
that these folks are onto something, and the minute that I can take a
shower I intend to follow up.
Anyway, we have the technology and we will have the pizza...
This is the official notice of the Barre Open Systems Institute (BOSI)
Adult Swim. For those coming in via the Google Plus and the Internet, The swim
stars at 5:00 PM EST, our continuing vanity being to include a goggle hangout,
which we will get going this time at
https://www.google.com/calendar/render?pli=1 until 6:00 PM EST. Note that we
really want to support TOX based video conferencing
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tox_%28software%29).
Does anyone know how to set up a G+ session from a command line?
For some reason many of our projects are turning into hardware. Anyone
want to computer control a gas powered model race car?
Our ongoing major objective is to continue to try to figure out how to
invest the time and resources to turn the Barre Open Systems Institute
into more than just the Adult Swim technical clinic and more into a real
learning facility. One direction we have been working on is to begin
thinking about classes. The curriculum that I am most interested in is
teaching documentation.
We continue to wonder about how to build the BOSI curriculum to this webpage:
http://bosivt.org/classes Take a look if you dare...
As I cannot say too damn often, the meeting today is at 40 Washington Street,
Barre, VT 05641 from 5:00 to 7:00 PM!
Remember, the BOSI Adult Swim is essentially about helping out fellow users of
open source products in a clinic environment. Despite my very best of
intentions, the Adult Swim is really almost a perpetual Linux install-fest, and
only secondarily a learning environment,
Once again, the goal of the meeting shall be as usual, to get organized
and try to get the various projects moving forward.
The ever growing list of projects (now on our web site :^) includes:
- http://bzinga.net - What happens when you combine Bash and Zenity?
- http://docbox.flint.com:8081/nodejs - ok, it is on the list.
- 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 versions
- http://docbox.flint.com:8081/strembot.org - maybe a very cool project.
- 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!
- http://docbox.flint.com:8081/bb - A big noble idea.
- http://docbox.flint.com:8081/grantbot - A less noble idea to feed the
big idea...
Note I fully intend to review and imbellish the above list by next week...
Otherwise, Barre indeed remains a great venue for a Linux and Open Source
Software discussion and general system rejuvenation. Expect to be remotely
preached at on the various topics of Open Source and how I am confident it
shall cure all the evils and ills of this wicked world. In a perfect meeting,
people would come in, sit down, see the stuff we have been doing and hopefully
help us get the DIY stuff we are doing done, or maybe just fix a laptop.
So, do not forget that the Barre library stocks "Linux World", and the latest
issue is on the shelf, and it is good. The DVD's are available to checkout and
copy, we shall to continue provide copies and isos of each and every one. I am
continuing to duplicate abot a years worth of DVD's which is quite a task.
Anyway, come and do open source stuff. For more information about the BOSI
Adult Swim meeting time and location try this:
http://bosivt.org/directions
Show up at Hedding UMC if you have questions or are interested in Linux or the
concept of free and open systems. Again, we are in the basement of the Hedding
UMC facility which 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.
After I finish the new group shower, we fully intend to get organized. I mean
it this time.
Kindest Regards,
Paul Flint
(802) 479-2360
(802) 595-9365 Cell
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