Category: Technology
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NSLUg Rebirth and 5 years of dust
So tonight I dusted off my old NSLU device and managed to get back into it. The device was originally
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Arduino = Fun – part II
Thought I would list some other things that I have done in the last couple of days with the Arduino.
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Arduino = Fun!
Yes, I am a curious hacker that simply loves building things. I have played around with some robotics stuff in
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Asterisk Click To Call script
We use WHMCS as our client management software. We use Asterisk and FOP2 for our phone lines. The other day
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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OpenSlug home page
I played with UnSlung, and in the end settled on OpenSlug for the options that it offered (more of a
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NSLU2-LINUX wiki
Great place to start and get info on the LinkSys NSLU2. I found that a lot of the content is