Greetings List Lurkers,
June brings more rain, but I suppose it is better than drought...
I was able to overnight to number one son a control system for his bright
idea, high powered Light Emitting Diode array illumination, which he used
in a show Sunday. The good news is he was able to get it working at his
theater in San Francisco. The jury is out on whether it actually work for
stage-lighting.
As we mentioned last week, this Bright Idea now has a name, LEDroid, and oddly
enough, a web site:
http://ledroid.org/
I continue on this stuff and truly find it fascinating. One angle I
intend to pursue is can these little bright lights be directly attached to
tin ceilings? 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.
In addition, we have come up with is what I am affectionately referring to
as the "Berserker-mod" for a standard PC power supply. So what else comes
out of the PC supply is 170 VDC. While this actually works, I am still
banging out the engineering necessary to get line isolated 40 VDC from
this, besides putting 4 high power LEDs in series. Check out the LEDroid
site for more information. My latest approach to this issue now has the
working name "Butterfly Capacitor"
In addition I am back on the new shower project at casa open source.
Also, let's keep the spotlight on the 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 quarter. I really think that
these folks are onto something, anyone with assignments or service
opportunities should contact Mr. Ian Stewart of VCC, Randoph. These are
good folks and this is a shameless plug. Keep the faith VCC!
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? J.
Hart really wants us to get our act together on Google Plus. Thus I
remain interested in a way to reliably getting a Google plus session going
at every meeting!
For some reason many of our projects are turning into hardware. Anyone want to
computer control a gas powered model race car? There will be a web site coming
soon!
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://ledroid.org - Ok, this is a real project eh?
- 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...
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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