Re: [OCLUG-Tech] still more dev kits to give away to good homes

2015-05-29 Thread Justin R
Hello, We spoke briefly of a good board with easily accessible sensor and servo interaction. You recommended the Galileo, and I agree it's best for my purposes: * Embedded GNU/Linux (thus Direct access to I/O via sysfs) * Native I2C support * Native PWM support * Toggleable 3.3v and 5v If you w

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] first few dev kits to give away

2015-05-14 Thread Justin R
As an absolute beginner in microcontroller programming, do you think these would be a good way to prototype some simple sensor interfacing code before trying to flash some AVR microcontrollers with my nonsense? Since the Minnowboard ties it's expansion slot up to an odd connector (A99244-ND) I don

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Recovering data from a potentially damaged drive

2014-10-26 Thread Justin R
If the data isn't worth professional recovery, consider swapping out the controller card attached to the drive. You will need at least one additional and identical drive for spare parts (preferably two), a motherboard or drive controller which does not search the drive for content on boot (partiti

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] how to start ripping all my music CDs?

2013-03-25 Thread Justin R
The biggest concerns are: - Physical damage to the Audio CD. See (CIRC) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-interleaved_Reed–Solomon_coding - Capabilities of the CD-ROM drive. (cdparanoia can analyze your drive and tell you what) http://www.xiph.org/paranoia/ - Unfortunate CD copy protection feat