The speaker for the February meeting has been lined up!
Hey Everybody, Great news! Andy will be speaking at the Feb. meeting! He's going to be doing a talk on Mesh networking. I figure this will "mesh" nicely with Frank's talk about 802.11*[nn]* networking. Once I get the official title for the talk I'll send out a more official reminder. On a different note... Is there anything that people are interested in that we could work on lining up speakers for? Here's a couple of ideas... * Software defined networking * Robotics * Home automation -- I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their constituents as "consumers".
Hi Tim, I don't get to the meetings that often, but any of those subjects would be great IMHO. While not specifically Linux related, maybe one on 3D printing would be cool? I don't have a 3D printer myself as of yet, but a buddy of mine does, and it's pretty awesome. It's amazing what you can create once it's 'dialed in' and you learn how to use it properly. (IE: The proper temperatures for the hotend and bed for different filaments and how to get the plastic to stay 'stuck' to the print bed.) And actually, there _is_ a Linux component to his printer now, lol. We setup a Raspberry Pi running "OctoPrint" on Raspibian to not only control his printer, but it gives it an HTML interface, wireless networking, a webcam monitor and time lapse function. It's really cool! Speaking of the Raspberry Pi, maybe a night about the Pi, the various models (A, B, B+ and the new A+) and some projects that use them would be of interest. For instance, one of my current projects is taking a Dummy Security Camera and converting it into a real HD Wireless Security Camera by putting a Raspberry Pi A+ with a camera and Wifi inside the dummy camera. (the A+ is quite small, so it fits quite well - all the other models won't fit without some potentially serious modifications to the Pi, the Camera case, or both.) One of my other projects is what I've named the 'ScamStopper', it's basically a smart call blocker. It's my solution to stopping the Jamaican Lottery Scammers from getting through to my 93yo Grandmother. It answers any 'unknown' caller with a message (even a custom message for the Jamaican scammers) and doesn't even ring her phone. Only "Known" phone numbers are passed through, sans the first ring. (And yes, we've changed her number a couple of times, but she replies to these 'surveys' and lottery 'entries' all too often, so they end up getting her new number.) Anyways, It's quite a hack in it's current incarnation, but it works well. It cost me about $125 just in components to build this working proof-of-concept. I am working on refining it to cut the cost down and hopefully produce a product I can bring to market. (IE: I'm currently using a $20 USB Modem to get the CallerID, a $40 Call Blocker device to suppress the first ring on her phone, and a $10 USB sound card [as the built-in audio was causing kernel panics, plus I wanted to be able to record on the Pi too, but haven't worked that out yet.]) It might also be cool to cover the Banana Pi, which is a more expensive, but more powerful version of a Pi (dual core processor, 1GB ram, SATA, etc) I have one, but really haven't done anything with it yet, unless you count installing the "Bananaized" version of Raspibian and tinkering a little bit. It's much faster than a Raspberry Pi, thanks to the dual cores and 1GB ram... I haven't decided what I'm going to use it for yet. Anyways, sorry about the 'book', and I hope you find my suggestion(s) helpful. I hope to be a more frequent attendee now that I actually live in Worcester again... Jeff On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 10:43 AM, Tim Keller <turbofx@gmail.com> wrote:
Hey Everybody,
Great news! Andy will be speaking at the Feb. meeting! He's going to be doing a talk on Mesh networking. I figure this will "mesh" nicely with Frank's talk about 802.11*[nn]* networking. Once I get the official title for the talk I'll send out a more official reminder.
On a different note... Is there anything that people are interested in that we could work on lining up speakers for?
Here's a couple of ideas... * Software defined networking * Robotics * Home automation
-- I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their constituents as "consumers".
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JeffA Maillists <jeffa.maillists@gmail.com> writes:
I don't get to the meetings that often, but any of those subjects would be great IMHO.
Great subject indeed. You should get to meetings more often.
While not specifically Linux related, maybe one on 3D printing would be cool?
Like the one listed on http://www.wlug.org/ ? May 8, 2014 - Kevin Harrington - Tour of Technocopia hackerspace & talk on OpenSCAD More fully described in email:
Date: Fri, 2 May 2014 18:43:00 -0400 From: Chuck Anderson <cra@WPI.EDU> To: Worcester Linux Users Group <wlug@mail.wlug.org>
Kevin Harrington has volunteered to give WLUG a tour of Technocopia, a new maker/hacker space just a few blocks from campus.
So here's the plan:
WLUG Meeting Thursday, May 8 2014.
7:00 PM meet at WPI Campus Center, Chairman's Room.
7:15 PM or so, head down to Technocopia, 95 Prescott Street, Worcester, MA 01605
More information about the hackerspace is available here:
This was indeed one of the more interesting meetings we have had. I enjoyed the field trip through the strange part of town, to the nest of self-reprocucing robots.
Speaking of the Raspberry Pi, maybe a night about the Pi, the various models (A, B, B+ and the new A+) and some projects that use them would be of interest.
Like <ditto>? February 13, 2013 - Chuck Anderson - More Raspberry Pi Of course, it is not true that a subject can be covered once and forgotten. Do it again, in greater depth, from a different perspective, with latest news updates, in French with a Jazz harmony---OK maybe not that last. -- Keith
I'd say that cool new projects around a Pi would always be welcome, and blocking telemarketers and scammers *definitely* fits that criteria =) Also, as for the octoprint, we may have a 3d printer and octopi rig up and running in time for the next meeting (we're waiting on some a replacement for some defective parts) so we could certainly bring ours over across campus. Frank Sweetser fs at wpi.edu | For every problem, there is a solution that Manager of Network Operations | is simple, elegant, and wrong. Worcester Polytechnic Institute | - HL Mencken On 01/24/2015 01:34 PM, JeffA Maillists wrote:
Hi Tim,
I don't get to the meetings that often, but any of those subjects would be great IMHO.
While not specifically Linux related, maybe one on 3D printing would be cool? I don't have a 3D printer myself as of yet, but a buddy of mine does, and it's pretty awesome. It's amazing what you can create once it's 'dialed in' and you learn how to use it properly. (IE: The proper temperatures for the hotend and bed for different filaments and how to get the plastic to stay 'stuck' to the print bed.) And actually, there _is_ a Linux component to his printer now, lol. We setup a Raspberry Pi running "OctoPrint" on Raspibian to not only control his printer, but it gives it an HTML interface, wireless networking, a webcam monitor and time lapse function. It's really cool!
Speaking of the Raspberry Pi, maybe a night about the Pi, the various models (A, B, B+ and the new A+) and some projects that use them would be of interest.
For instance, one of my current projects is taking a Dummy Security Camera and converting it into a real HD Wireless Security Camera by putting a Raspberry Pi A+ with a camera and Wifi inside the dummy camera. (the A+ is quite small, so it fits quite well - all the other models won't fit without some potentially serious modifications to the Pi, the Camera case, or both.)
One of my other projects is what I've named the 'ScamStopper', it's basically a smart call blocker. It's my solution to stopping the Jamaican Lottery Scammers from getting through to my 93yo Grandmother. It answers any 'unknown' caller with a message (even a custom message for the Jamaican scammers) and doesn't even ring her phone. Only "Known" phone numbers are passed through, sans the first ring. (And yes, we've changed her number a couple of times, but she replies to these 'surveys' and lottery 'entries' all too often, so they end up getting her new number.) Anyways, It's quite a hack in it's current incarnation, but it works well. It cost me about $125 just in components to build this working proof-of-concept. I am working on refining it to cut the cost down and hopefully produce a product I can bring to market. (IE: I'm currently using a $20 USB Modem to get the CallerID, a $40 Call Blocker device to suppress the first ring on her phone, and a $10 USB sound card [as the built-in audio was causing kernel panics, plus I wanted to be able to record on the Pi too, but haven't worked that out yet.])
It might also be cool to cover the Banana Pi, which is a more expensive, but more powerful version of a Pi (dual core processor, 1GB ram, SATA, etc) I have one, but really haven't done anything with it yet, unless you count installing the "Bananaized" version of Raspibian and tinkering a little bit. It's much faster than a Raspberry Pi, thanks to the dual cores and 1GB ram... I haven't decided what I'm going to use it for yet.
Anyways, sorry about the 'book', and I hope you find my suggestion(s) helpful. I hope to be a more frequent attendee now that I actually live in Worcester again...
Jeff
On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 10:43 AM, Tim Keller <turbofx@gmail.com <mailto:turbofx@gmail.com>> wrote:
Hey Everybody,
Great news! Andy will be speaking at the Feb. meeting! He's going to be doing a talk on Mesh networking. I figure this will "mesh" nicely with Frank's talk about 802.11/[nn]/ networking. Once I get the official title for the talk I'll send out a more official reminder.
On a different note... Is there anything that people are interested in that we could work on lining up speakers for?
Here's a couple of ideas... * Software defined networking * Robotics * Home automation
-- I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their constituents as "consumers".
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I've been watching the whole software defined network mania fairly closely, and while I honestly don't even know what a presentation about it would look like, I'd always be happy to just chat for a while about if it there's interest. (One little teaser - a good segment of it involves running Linux directly on enterprise class network gear!) Frank Sweetser fs at wpi.edu | For every problem, there is a solution that Manager of Network Operations | is simple, elegant, and wrong. Worcester Polytechnic Institute | - HL Mencken On 01/21/2015 10:43 AM, Tim Keller wrote:
Hey Everybody,
Great news! Andy will be speaking at the Feb. meeting! He's going to be doing a talk on Mesh networking. I figure this will "mesh" nicely with Frank's talk about 802.11/[nn]/ networking. Once I get the official title for the talk I'll send out a more official reminder.
On a different note... Is there anything that people are interested in that we could work on lining up speakers for?
Here's a couple of ideas... * Software defined networking * Robotics * Home automation
-- I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their constituents as "consumers".
_______________________________________________ Wlug mailing list Wlug@mail.wlug.org http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug
Regarding SDN, the following link is rather interesting. http://www.att.com/Common/about_us/pdf/AT&T%20Domain%202.0%20Vision%20White%20Paper.pdf -David On 01/26/2015 12:49 PM, Frank Sweetser wrote:
I've been watching the whole software defined network mania fairly closely, and while I honestly don't even know what a presentation about it would look like, I'd always be happy to just chat for a while about if it there's interest. (One little teaser - a good segment of it involves running Linux directly on enterprise class network gear!)
Frank Sweetser fs at wpi.edu | For every problem, there is a solution that Manager of Network Operations | is simple, elegant, and wrong. Worcester Polytechnic Institute | - HL Mencken
On 01/21/2015 10:43 AM, Tim Keller wrote:
Hey Everybody,
Great news! Andy will be speaking at the Feb. meeting! He's going to be doing a talk on Mesh networking. I figure this will "mesh" nicely with Frank's talk about 802.11/[nn]/ networking. Once I get the official title for the talk I'll send out a more official reminder.
On a different note... Is there anything that people are interested in that we could work on lining up speakers for?
Here's a couple of ideas... * Software defined networking * Robotics * Home automation
-- I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their constituents as "consumers".
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For the holidays I setup my raspberry pi to act as an automatic christmas tree waterier. Thus I've become quite acquainted with the GPIO (General Purpose I/O) pins on the raspberry pi. I could definitely give a talk that would be a primer on controlling TTL devices using a raspberry pi and python. On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 2:45 PM, David Glaser <dglaser@glaserresearch.net> wrote:
Regarding SDN, the following link is rather interesting.
http://www.att.com/Common/about_us/pdf/AT&T%20Domain%202.0%20Vision%20White%20Paper.pdf
-David
I've been watching the whole software defined network mania fairly closely, and while I honestly don't even know what a presentation about it would look like, I'd always be happy to just chat for a while about if it there's interest. (One little teaser - a good segment of it involves running Linux directly on enterprise class network gear!)
Frank Sweetser fs at wpi.edu | For every problem, there is a solution that Manager of Network Operations | is simple, elegant, and wrong. Worcester Polytechnic Institute | - HL Mencken
On 01/21/2015 10:43 AM, Tim Keller wrote:
Hey Everybody,
Great news! Andy will be speaking at the Feb. meeting! He's going to be doing a talk on Mesh networking. I figure this will "mesh" nicely with Frank's talk about 802.11/[nn]/ networking. Once I get the official
the talk I'll send out a more official reminder.
On a different note... Is there anything that people are interested in
On 01/26/2015 12:49 PM, Frank Sweetser wrote: title for that we
could work on lining up speakers for?
Here's a couple of ideas... * Software defined networking * Robotics * Home automation
-- I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their constituents as "consumers".
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