<div dir="ltr"><div><div>I am the one who cross-posted the Maker Faire notice.<br><br></div>Last year I bought a pretty good-sized arduino hardware kit there at a bargain price. I'm quite comfortable developing arduino code on my linux box. <br>
<br>One of the booths there featured a device similar to this ( <a href="http://jasongriffey.net/librarybox/">http://jasongriffey.net/librarybox/</a> ) -- a small box with a wifi POP and an SD card slot which you could connect to with your phone or tablet to access content stored on the card (like, say, copies of _Fun_Home_ ( <a href="http://confessionsofaboytoy.com/2014/02/22/colleges-lose-funding-for-assigning-alison-bechdel/">http://confessionsofaboytoy.com/2014/02/22/colleges-lose-funding-for-assigning-alison-bechdel/</a> )). Of course its guts are Linux. I come here for distro wars, vi-vs-emacs, or in jokes about video drivers, The Maker Faire is fertile ground for innovative uses of open hardware and software.<br>
<br></div>-- CHS<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 5:51 PM, Jim Kinney <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jim.kinney@gmail.com" target="_blank">jim.kinney@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="">On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 5:35 PM, Michael H. Warfield <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mhw@wittsend.com" target="_blank">mhw@wittsend.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>On Wed, 2014-04-30 at 15:12 -0400, Jim Kinney wrote:<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
> On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 2:02 PM, Jim Lynch<br>
> <<a href="mailto:ale_nospam@fayettedigital.com" target="_blank">ale_nospam@fayettedigital.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> On 04/30/2014 11:59 AM, JD wrote:<br>
> So .... anyone interested in doing an "all linux for<br>
> everything" presentation?<br>
> Having never been to a maker event, I don't think I'm<br>
> the best person to head<br>
> this up, but I can certainly support others. ;)<br>
><br>
><br>
> I was very disappointed last year when I found no Linux<br>
> presence at the faire.<br>
><br>
><br>
> Maybe it's just my personal bias, but "no Linux presence" makes me<br>
> wonder how people can claim to actually hack things.<br>
<br>
</div>You're almost as bad as the people who claim that all hackers are bad<br>
guys. </blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>I can be a bit closed-minded/stubborn at times :-) I do know that there are many things that get hacked on that use software to control. It should be Linux (or another code base that allows the user to freely hack around under the hood - *BSD comes to mind.) for it to count as hackable to me (there's my closed-minded bias again :-)<br>
<br></div><div class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> You can hack a lot of things. You can even hack things that<br>
don't even have computers. I hack together woodworking projects or yard<br>
projects from time to time.<br></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>I must admit that _anything_ I do with wood these days is a hack and not a showpiece. ditto on my welding (I make "art" out of rusty scraps for fun), jewelry, sheetrock, tile, and few others as well. My code should probably be in that list as well :-(<br>
</div><div class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<br>
I do agree that having a Linux presence there would be a great thing.<br></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>Linux based controllers doing "stuff" is always cool! I'm looking at several RasPi projects with my son these days. Probably need to crank out a RasPi thermostat/duct controller (stupid split level house design with 1969-era ductwork).<br>
</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="">
<div>><br>
> What's the timeframe on this fair? Is there time to create a Linux<br>
> presence?<br>
><br>
><br>
> Jim.<br>
<br>
<br>
</div><div>> --<br>
> --<br>
> James P. Kinney III<br>
><br>
> Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you<br>
> gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his<br>
> own tail. It won't fatten the dog.<br>
> - Speech 11/23/1900 Mark Twain<br>
><br>
> <a href="http://heretothereideas.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://heretothereideas.blogspot.com/</a><br>
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</div>Regards,<br>
Mike<br>
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