Greetings List Lurkers,
The real interesting fallout from Pycon 2018 was Adafruit's new Gemma
M0...
https://www.adafruit.com/product/3501
They put these in the Swag bags. After some traumatizing play, I
discovered that you can have a serial session to this device just like and
Arduino, at:
/dev/ttyACM0
When you do you will find a program running. Hit <ctl> c and <enter>
and you are at this prompt:
That's right, the itsy bitsy Amtel AVR compatible ATSAMD21E18 32-bit
Cortex M0+ contains a complete Python interperter on the chip!
Well, actually a variant called "CircuitPython"...
This is so very cool and likely to change the way we use AVR based
systems.
YAK SHAVING This is asection that continues to occupy the middle of this
newsletter. Yak Shaving is the basic unit of activity for what I appear to be
doing all day. So I will likely line the Yaks of last week and compare them to
the Yaks of next week.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mmISldi060
I am doing some research as to exactly what evening is "Yackmas Eve", but as
you can clearly see, this is yet another Yak to shave...
The above is considered the highest form of Yak Shaving, which is recursive...
Big Yak #1.
As I mentioned the last weeks, I am gathering signatures on a petition to
get my name on the ballot to represent Washington County District three in
the Vermont House. I run as the Flatland Fred Tuttle... The web site will
go up when we somehow complete getting signatures on the petition to get
on the ballot. To sign you must be a Barre City Registered Voter. If you
are a Barre City voter, I would very much like your signature. Turns out
there will be a primairy August 14th, and there will be other candidates.
As, it appears that I will be running for the Vermont House from Washington
County District 3. You shall find out more information by keeping an eye on
the web site flint43.us, which should be going into operation by 1 June.
Way too many Yaks not enough time...
So, the short answer is we are still here and the meeting will take place today
at 17:00.
Cool Yak #2 There is a script built and tested which installs the Google
playstore on a Kindle Fire7 from a bash shell. The prototype for this script
is located here:
http://docbox.flint.com:8081/kindle#ifire7i.sh
I this week, given time, will attempt to use my feeble github skills to
get this uploaded there. While this caused great rejoicing last week, as
we were able to get hangouts working on the new fire7, we now need to
refine it and find another fire7 that needs the services of the Kindle
Liberation Front.
The problem here seems to be the Cosmic Law that you *do not fix that
which is not broken*, and sadly enough, while it sucks, Google Plus is not
broken, as we appear to have fixed the bandwidth issue.
For more information try: http://docbox.flint.com:8081/tada
That said, we seem to have the most traction on Google Hangouts...
CNC Yak
Now I need it to do finished holes. This involves learning a great deal
about Routers...
Another Yak that I am looking for is a way to dial a cell phone via the Android
Developer Port... Effin had an idea but...
Our standard topics once again remain:
- Open Source Educational Human Development
I am changing the priority
of our eternal needs, and placing education first, as manifest in a
Barre Brain Barn. - Maker Movement A Maker Space in Barre? Why not? We
clearly have a Maker Faire profile. Could it be that the commercial power
centers are beginning to appreciate the value of the maker movement.
See: http://bbbvt.org/
Here are the city and statewide plans:
http://docbox.flint.com:8081/bb
who has good ideas about a Barre Maker Space. Why not do digital
stone soup?
- Move BOSI towards reStructuredText.
I am researching
a tiddly2rest converter. This would allow us to become more git
centric... avoid the need to change to gittlywiki...
We still need to convert... Yea buddy... Shut up Effin.
- Blue Sky R&D,
Except in Vermont it will be Gun-metal Grey Sky(c) R&D
(GMGSR&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. While having #1Son around helped, I am still fighting DREK.
How to get over it? The secret may be empty pellet bags.
TechnoRubble is hereby defined as organized DREK. DREK is
just what you get prior to something becoming TechnoRubble.
Just to let you know I am desperately trying to turn DREK into
TechnoRubble. The ultimate goal being the development and
implementation of the TechnoRubble Taxonomy.
These four points are really Yaks and are quickly becoming more than our
policy, and more like a prayer... from now on they are Yaks.
On this last area here at Casa Flint Labs, we have made progress, as the DREK
is in remission, and Spring Cleaning is about to start. Do not all volunteer
at once!
Anyway, we have the technology and we will have Pizza tonight 5-7 at Hedding
UMC. Accept no substitutes... For those coming in via voice or the Internet,
so not forget this information:
...and we hope that there are folks who are gonna try, the swim "TADA" starts
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,
and figure out where our good chairs went. One direction we have been working
on is to begin thinking about classes. The curriculum that I am most interested
in is teaching documentation.
The goal of the meeting shall be unusual, as it will be more about planning and
vision and less about how 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 web page:
http://bosivt.org, works, and has just been updated.
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 Yaks (previously called projects, now on our web site
:^) includes the following with no particular organization or accuracy:
http://www.bosivt.org - Must feed this hungry beast. http://bosivt.org, works,
and has just been updates see javascript link to http://family.flint.com/flint
https://hangouts.google.com/hangouts/_/flint.com/tada
http://docbox.flint.com:8081/raspberry#MinecraftRaspberryPi Pi Minecraft, cool.
http://www.lakecraft.net/ This is the site we want to get Pi Minecraft working
with. http://bbbvt.org/ Barre Brain Barn. http://ledroid.org Ok, this is a real
project eh? http://docbox.flint.com:8081/travel#VTMakerConf2017
http://docbox.flint.com:8081/technorubble#TechnoRubbleTaxonomy
http://docbox.flint.com:8081/raspberry#PiRFID
http://docbox.flint.com:8081/trantor
http://docbox.flint.com:8081/blockchain#blockchainttt
http://docbox.flint.com:8081/bb http://docbox.flint.com:8081/vm A Docker copy
of VM370 http://docbox.flint.com:8081/kindle The Kindle Liberation Front
http://docbox.flint.com:8081/pyrs A pythonic interface to Income Tax?
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
http://docbox.flint.com:8081/bb A big noble idea.
http://docbox.flint.com:8081/grantbot A less noble idea to feed the
http://docbox.flint.com:8081/gitlywiki is tiddlywiki5 the answer?
http://docbox.flint.com:8080/bosivt.org/directions or, go to http://bosivt.org
This list has been updated... Next we shoot for accuracy!
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 Aldrich 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 free and open source stuff. For more information about the
BOSI Adult Swim meeting time and location try this:
Directions to the Adult Swim:
http://docbox.flint.com:8080/bosivt.org/directions or, go to http://bosivt.org
and click on 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 we like pretty well.
If you wish to be included on the "Linux_adult_swim" mailing list, send a
response to this note, or contact me.
I expect to be chastised by eagle-eyed Dr. Mark, or god forbid, Effin.
Note that Dr. Mark remains our Honorary Editor.
Remamber...
While time flies like the wind...
Horse flies like banannas...
It is summer. Lets hit the Adult Swim!
Kindest Regards,
Paul Flint
(802) 479-2360
(802) 595-9365 Cell
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