Greetings List Lurkers,
You know that things are bad when you think 25 degrees Fahrenheit is
"warming up"...
This past week here in Barre City has been a cloud covered frozen surcease
of sorrow, with no end in sight...
The snowman of mid November is actually fine... Fortunately we can expect
warmth in the Hedding United Methodist Basement when we meet today 5-7 PM.
On to the Yaks! Why won't these Yaks show some consideration? The September
Yaks are mostly clean shaven... the rest of the herd morphed into November Yaks
and now not much is getting done as they have transformed into December Yaks...
So, we will need to look over the growing herd as we stumble through
December...
Birth of a new Yak:
If you want the best deal you can find on making your bike electric, check out:
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For $169.94 you get to DIY an electric bicycle. What a wonderful Yak!
Our project Site to allow for vicarious enjoyment of the profound pain this Yak
will cause is:
http://docbox.flint.com:8081/bikes#iWheel
So far it has been excellent...
The trick here is the battery... More to come on this...
Additioal YAK SHAVING
To stipulate, shaving one Yak is the basic unit of activity for what I appear
to be doing all day. Thus, what we are doing is lining up the Yaks of last
week and comparing them to the Yaks of next week, extracting the present Yaks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mmISldi060
Since last week, new Yaks hover around me, all looking to be shaved... Let me
just write about them in what appears to be priority order:
Yaks that evade shaving...
Son Yak: #1 son in August I got to see his lighting system, which is so
damn cool I cannot believe it. I am working on reproducing his setup.
Very awesome... We actually opened the back pack last week... This is now
a monitored Yak, destined for the Serenity Garden...
This same tech I can use these lights at SugarTower Spring Festival, but first
electricity...
http://docbox.flint.com:8081/sugartower#power
Maybe my approach which involves Atmel hardware is to long a journey, but that
is the way that I am going here... Especially if we can develop in
Circuitpython...
The CircuitPython vs Sketch Yak
Then big thing with this Yak, is can I build a battery monitoring system out of
the Adafruit Trinket? There is why...the real interesting part of the frantic
research that I have been up to is that apparently Lady Ada is moving into the
realization that in many classrooms you cannot even teach python, because the
CC&CM (Configuration Control and Change Management) Mafia will not even let you
load Python on the system...
Lady Ada is one smart cookie...
Now we need crossed libraries! I gotta write code!
Still working on this (sixth week on the charts)... Right now in sketch,
but this is the idea for a project for the Gemma M0 that will make
everyone weep in frustration...
This boring old dude will tell you what is:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1miwCJtxeM
The Juypter Yak.
Is the answer to all of my problems Juypter Notebooks? If so why is
Anaconda such a dog to install? (Fourteenth week on Yak list). It the
ticket to do this all in Docker? The answer is, you can but try to get
Docker to display it!!! Wonder what port it is using? How do I get this
working? Round two is next! (6th week on chart...)
The Yak of Reuse.
I want to change the flint43.us site into a good site for technorubble.org.
thus http://flint43.us will become the new http"//technorubble.org.
The plan here is not to waste the site, but reuse it. Got to get Kevin to hand
the site to me... Maybe NoVa Web can help with this...
The CNC Yak
After breaking way too many router bits, Anderson, our excellent neighbor,
pointed out that we need new spindle motors. Got them they are beautiful. Now
that the aluminum adapter plate is in place , and we have a lot of test
styrofoam that fits the tool "throat" things are really good.
ADB hacks!
I am mostly interested in what we can do with Android Developer Bridge (ADB).
What I wanted was to develop a Get Out The Vote system called govt.sh, which
is, of course, a new Visual Bash Yak. Since the election, I have decieded to
get this working as a general purpose tool.
Thus, this Yak remains. As an election tool this is not yet a gleam in my eye,
but as a Yak, this gains strength...
Another Yak.
I am trying to develop a replacement for "find". I am gonna call it "ff.sh"...
This now has a Wiki area:
http://docbox.flint.com:8081/visual.bash#ffind.sh
It is kinda fun...
Yet Another Yak (YAY) - the Email Yak...
A Yak I am shaving:
As I am trying to manage the universe with Visual Bash, for years I have been
archiving my mail to one of the big hard drives here at the casa.
Want to watch the tragedy?
Here ya go:
http://docbox.flint.com:8081/email#MailManagerScript
...very beta...
Damn, I was just looking for this code...nice.
I need me a mail manager, Visual Bash becons...
I chip away... (pun intended :^)
So, the short answer is we are still here and the meeting will take place today
at 17:00, and there will be pizza...
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... Maybe the answer is Juypter Notebook...
- Blue Sky R&D,
Except in Vermont it will be Gun-metal Grey Sky(c) R&D
(GMGSR&D). The kid is in town... A great researcher...
- 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, less like conventional Yaks, and more like prayers... But from now on
they are also Yaks.
On this last area here at Casa Flint Labs, we have made progress, as the DREK
is in remission, and Spring Cleaning continues into summer and on into fall...
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 (bandwidth willing).
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.
It is summer. Lets hit the Adult Swim!
This done, I am gonna work on a policy paper about our Rights!
Kindest Regards,
Paul Flint
(802) 479-2360
(802) 595-9365 Cell
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