May 2007

Hardware.. still no software

I have to admit, it is very hard to find the time to commit to developing some software. I have

Great page full of Slug hardware mod photos..

http://1wt.eu/articles/nslu2

Open source Flash!

Cool.. I think I will check this out at some point. There is even an open source version of Generator..

Slug says Hello through Windows

First things first… I spent a fair bit of time trying to figure out where my program was being cached.

Getting video working on my OpenSlug..

Seems pretty straightforward until the /dev/video device doesn’t appear!! Followed the instructions here.. www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/HowTo/AddUsbWebcam Then found I did not have lipjpeg, libpng

How exciting… next steps!

Okay so taking inventory…. OpenSlug with a working USB camera that supports upto 640×480. (though I will likely only ever

Successful cross compile of the test program!! WOOHOO!

I’ve added C++ code to the sample code found else where on this site. At first I was not able

SELinux has no place on a dev box

Disable SELinux on your dev box! I spent a huge chunk of the weekend trying to figure out how to

Free tools – Great link

I’m one of those people who find great tools on the internet and then forget to write them down. I

My current setup

Most of this has been acquired over the last two years (I bought he RoboSapien around Christmas 2005). Some of

Velleman K8055 USB board

Here’s some links I found on the net with code specific to the K8055http://soft.pmad.net/k8055/http://linuxk8055.free.fr/ k8055-utbm-src-0.3.zip  (this is what I have been

My past resume of activities

Haven’t updated my resume in a long time, and I guess I haven’t done any real programming in a long

Tomahawk site – 1999

This was the cutting edge of technology in 1999… Or at least I thought it was!!  Tomahawk 1999 in all its

SteelArrow – my first baby..

It is a programming language that I wrote a couple of years ago and continues to be used at Tomahawk.

Tomahawk Technologies

As president/owner/CEO I have to include a link to the best hi-tech company in the area!!  Tomahawk Technologies Inc. With

The device itself with specs etc.

Network Storage Link from Linksys NSLU2 on www.linksys.com

NSLU2-LINUX wiki

Great place to start and get info on the LinkSys NSLU2. I found that a lot of the content is

OpenSlug home page

I played with UnSlung, and in the end settled on OpenSlug for the options that it offered (more of a

Where do I start?

I think that I have had the idea of building a robot for quite some time. Lately robotos seem to