[ale] Fwd: [freeside] It's Official: Atlanta Maker Faire (Not Mini!)

[Charles Shapiro]

I am the one who cross-posted the Maker Faire notice.

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.

One of the booths there featured a device similar to this (
http://jasongriffey.net/librarybox/ ) -- 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_ (
http://confessionsofaboytoy.com/2014/02/22/colleges-lose-funding-for-assigning-alison-bechdel/)).
 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.

-- CHS



On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 5:51 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 5:35 PM, Michael H. Warfield <mhw at wittsend.com>wrote:
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>> On Wed, 2014-04-30 at 15:12 -0400, Jim Kinney wrote:
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>> >
>> > On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 2:02 PM, Jim Lynch
>> > <ale_nospam at fayettedigital.com> wrote:
>> >         On 04/30/2014 11:59 AM, JD wrote:
>> >                 So .... anyone interested in doing an "all linux for
>> >                 everything" presentation?
>> >                 Having never been to a maker event, I don't think I'm
>> >                 the best person to head
>> >                 this up, but I can certainly support others. ;)
>> >
>> >
>> >         I was very disappointed last year when I found no Linux
>> >         presence at the faire.
>> >
>> >
>> > Maybe it's just my personal bias, but "no Linux presence" makes me
>> > wonder how people can claim to actually hack things.
>>
>> You're almost as bad as the people who claim that all hackers are bad
>> guys.
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>
> 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 :-)
>
>
>>  You can hack a lot of things.  You can even hack things that
>> don't even have computers.  I hack together woodworking projects or yard
>> projects from time to time.
>>
>
> 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 :-(
>
>>
>> I do agree that having a Linux presence there would be a great thing.
>>
>
> 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).
>
>> >
>> > What's the timeframe on this fair? Is there time to create a Linux
>> > presence?
>> >
>> >
>> >         Jim.
>>
>>
>> > --
>> > --
>> > James P. Kinney III
>> >
>> > Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you
>> > gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his
>> > own tail. It won't fatten the dog.
>> > - Speech 11/23/1900 Mark Twain
>> >
>> > http://heretothereideas.blogspot.com/
>>
>> Regards,
>> Mike
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> Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain
> at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail.
> It won't fatten the dog.
> - Speech 11/23/1900 Mark Twain
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