[OCLUG-Tech] Shell scripting: how to loop through characters of a string?

2017-07-28 Thread rpjday
Curious about the best(?) way to do some simple operations in a shell script that I would *prefer* to be POSIX-compliant, so here's the first question -- how to loop through the individual characters of a string? I just stumbled across this solution I'd never heard of: $ echo "rday" |

[OCLUG-Tech] good place to get embedded board power adapters locally?

2017-05-17 Thread rpjday
i need to pick up a couple power adapters as described here: http://www.96boards.org/product/power/ trick is that the connector is smaller than normal -- 4.75/1.7 mm as opposed to 5.5/2.1 mm. i know i can get an adapter to step that down at gervais electronics, but the basic power adapter