Greetings List Lurkers,
What a full day of stuff is ahead of us.
Fleeky, my #1 SoN stormed into town last week with his Docker addicted
associate, Ashes and he proceeded to complete the 3 D printer that has
been languishing in the upstairs of the barn. Then it was attached to a
Raspberry Pi running Octoprint and the damn thing has taken off like a
scalded cat!
I am frantically trying to keep up with the progress at the following
tiddle:
http://docbox.flint.com:8081/3D_print
Last night after waddling down to the dollar store and getting some
hairspray (who would have thought you needed hairspray...), the damn thing
has actually printed out useful stuff. Today, if all goes well, we are on
our way over to visit Tyler at Filabot,
https://www.filabot.com/
In order to score some more filament. BTW if the timing works this may be
a field trip for the Adult Swim. Fleeky is in town for some family stuff,
but it is all good. We really need a laser cutter down in this part of
the world in the worst way.
Could it be that ability to print stuff will entice Rachael Little and the
gang from Norwich into sharing their meeting schedule? A field trip to
Northfield would be fun. Maybe Rachael will show again and bring her
friends.
With any luck I will be working on someone else's Docker image later this
week. Maybe all that pain was worth it.
Again if you are interested in the wonderful world of zVM, I have a demo
ziddlewiki available at:
http://docbox.flint.com:8081/hercules
The bottom line is that Docker and tmux work find together...
THE TECHNORUBBLE REPORT
TECHNORUBBLE - The Website http://technorubble.org, http://technorubble.com
I was dropping off the bodies left over from the MIT Wireless Flea Market
Boston deathmarch at the ReStore, and noticed that there was a large
bucket of TechnoRubble sitting there. Apparently they do not have the
resources to do more than collect this stuff. After some quick
negotiations We acquired it, so we have good stock for the Rutland Maker
Fair July 30th. That said we need to do a bit of organizing for this
impending event and so that may be the balance of todays meeting. (If we
do not A.D.D, out and do a field trip to Filabot.)
PITCHBOX
PitchBox parts were very handy to have when getting Octaprint working The
PiTch-Box is an enclosure built out of the shipping case the Raspberry Pi
Touch Display comes in. I am very happy with how this is coming along. My
goal is to draft Ashes into working on the idea of instead of getting
custom boxes built we have sticker kits that guide you in assembly.
More on the Pitchbox, becoming a household word...
The good news is that it appears that a most viable PiTchBox power supply
is an old PC supply, it however lacks stability. I have received half a
dozen 12VDC to 5V at 3A converters, successors to the venerable 7812.
One is going on the 3 D printer, the others are getting added to the Pitch
mix
http://docbox.flint.com:8081/raspberry#PiTch-Box
Could you turn the Raspberry Pi into an IBM VM emulator? Answer this
question for a free prize!
Anyway, we need to continue to develop the software and hardware PiTchBox
library such as...
JARVIS ON JENKINS
As you recall brother Kevin Cole has ported Jarvis, a voice recognition
product to run on a Raspberry PI3. This is exciting and we are attempting
to reproduce this here in the Casa Flint Lab...
http://docbox.flint.com:8081/raspberry#JarvisOnJenkins
In my travels this project went on a haiatus, but is not out of active
developent... This week will hopefully bring some developments...
PYRS
PYRS is in deep deep deep background, I remain fascinated with the idea of
writing a python tax library... PYRS - A python interface to the IRS!
(http://docbox.flint.com:8081/pyrs) Maybe the conference can dissuade me.
This is at the hold point...
KINDLE LIBERATON FRONT
As mentioned a few weeks back, Due to the bandwidth issue, and my own traveling
adventures the entire Kindle Liberation Front is lagging, we hope that a
rumored appearance of no less than Joe Hart himself will bring about
progress in the area detailed below.
The bad news is that all the new units are coming in with 5.1.3. Also, I
think I killed one of these 5.1.1. units with water. Good news is that I
took it apart and am drying it out. It may end up as parts. Hopefully in
the coming week.
http://docbox.flint.com:8081/kindle
Finally the Power Supply for the T60s came in, and I have validated the
proper operation the T60 wireless. This will please Brett.
To summarize, the meeting today is again at 40 Washington Street, Barre, VT
05641.
Topics for discussion as usual remain:
- Open Source Educational Human Development
I am working on an idea... I am changing the priority of our
eternal needs, and placing education first.
- Maker Movement A Maker Space in Barre? Why not? Could it be that the
commercial power centers do not yet appreciate the value? I need to
revise my paper on this subject and get it out to Lucas Jensen
who has good ideas about a Barre Maker Space.
- Move BOSI to become more git centric... develop gittlywiki... working!
check out tiddlywiki5 here: https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5
We still need to convert... Yea buddy...
- Blue Sky R&D, but in Vermont it will be Gun-metal Grey Sky(c) R&D.
- I fought the DREK and the DREK continues to win. Remember, What
really is holds us back is DREK!!! DREK is what happens to your
workspace (both hardware and software) when you fail to put stuff
away, or you let your friends or relatives use it. This is a cosmic
law. I am still fighting the DREK.
Anyway, we have the technology and we will have Pizza tonight 5-7 at Hedding
UMC.
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, and there are
folks who are gonna try, the swim stars at 6:00 PM EST.
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.
Once again, the goal of the meeting shall be as usual, to get organized and try
to get the various projects moving forward, despite DREK. We continue to wonder
about how to build the BOSI curriculum to this webpage:
http://bosivt.org/classes, Take a look if you dare...
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,
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...
- http://docbox.flint.com:8081/gitlywiki - is tiddlywiki5 the answer?
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 Format", 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 about a years worth of DVD's which is quite a task.
You may want to watch this space for developments.
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.
Somehow we need to make progress not more projects!!!
If you wish to be included on the "Linux_adult_swim" mailing list, send a
response to this note.
This is Flint signing off...
I will be refactoring our newsletter at some point in the future (do not hold
breath :^)...
Kindest Regards,
Paul Flint
(802) 479-2360
(802) 595-9365 Cell
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