Greetings List Lurkers, Vermont - Canadian wildfires giving us our favorite overcast...
I have spent a great deal of time protecting my considerable investment in Snapper lawn and garden equipment, not my favorite activity, but last night I got the front lawn cut, and I now have an excellent Snapper/Greenworks hack!!! While VMCE still rages, I have been enjoying what little sunshine we get outdoors up here, but there is stuff going on! Sadly upgrading the Orin Jetson Nano to regular Ubuntu has languished in the summer fun. http://docbox.flint.com:8081/geekland/jetson#Upgrade2Ubuntu I am so frustrated I may pack it up to bring to the meeting this evening. SUMMER DREAMS Generally, the weather is barely cooperating with my ridiculously ambitious plans for spring which again include my dream of a meet up of Adult Swim at SugarTower. A rehearsal of this is tentatively scheduled for Saturday 28 June 2025. The great news is that this has morphed into a Pig Roast and party lasting all day! More as this develops... I intend to keep the working title "Open Source Summer Camp" (OSSC): http://docbox.flint.com:8081/geekland/#Open_Source_Summer_Camp_(OSSC) While an experiment and a rehearsal, this may not be our last attempt! That all said we have a meeting tonight at 6PM. The life lesson here is that serious development remains for the winter. Winter should have allowed us to answer questions like: - Can I take a Caterpillar 315L and combine it with an ABB robot arm in order to do large scale 3D printing? - Can I combine the hardware and software into a "looperplex" (a musical instrument)? possibly about using RP2350? - A VIAOC based Arduino and Pi development environment that "Breaths" Code. By itself the concept of "breathing" code is essential and is really not part of the RP2040 / RP2350 architecture. I have not discovered how to get the code off of these buggers. http://docbox.flint.com:8081/geekland/#Virtual_Immutability_Associated_Containers_(VIAOC) - Can I use the upgraded to Ubuntu Jetson AI and Tabby to generate VisualBash scripts? (see https://github.com/dylanaraps/pure-bash-bible) - Would it make sense to store VisualBash functions in MariaDB? - Could all tie into Kubernetes? ...so more about these foolish ideas is available this Monday evening at 6 PM at the York Library in beautiful East Barre Vermont. Thus we are convalescing, centralizing and convocating at the York Branch Library this evening. That said, come in person or remotely and bring this and any other problems and questions and we shall do our thing! Again this evening, beyond the Library face-2-face & gizmo-2-gizmo, we shall use https://meet.jit.si/bosi to connect. Feel free to click the following link (around 6PM tonight) to join the meeting: https://meet.jit.si/bosi Let me know if this works for everyone... ===== Just want to dial in on your phone? Dial-in: +1.512.402.2718 PIN: 1992759198# Note that this dial worked with devastating effect from the road... Click this link to see the dial in phone numbers for this meeting: https://meet.jit.si/static/dialInInfo.html?room=bosi Kindest Regards, Paul Flint, Director Barre Open Systems Institute
