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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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Open source Flash!
Cool.. I think I will check this out at some point. There is even an open source version of Generator..
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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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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
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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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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
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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
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My current setup
Most of this has been acquired over the last two years (I bought he RoboSapien around Christmas 2005). Some of
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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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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
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Tomahawk site – 1999
This was the cutting edge of technology in 1999… Or at least I thought it was!! Tomahawk 1999 in all its
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SteelArrow – my first baby..
It is a programming language that I wrote a couple of years ago and continues to be used at Tomahawk.
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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
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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
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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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Where do I start?
I think that I have had the idea of building a robot for quite some time. Lately robotos seem to