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Most of what you'll find at the East Bay Mini Maker Faire will inspire you to do something with your hands, but we also have fantastic talks about the history, future, and culture of making, talks that will feed your brain and spark your intellectual curiosity.
Nicholas de Monchaux is an architect, urbanist, writer, and Assistant Professor of Architecture & Urban Design at UC Berkeley. Nicholas is coming to EBMMF to talk about an unlikely but fascinating subject: the Apollo AL7 Pressure Garment, what Armstrong and Aldrin wore when they walked on the surface of the moon in 1969. As he puts it:
The Spacesuit they were wearing was made not by a military-industrial conglomerate, but by Playtex makers of women's underwear. Not only was the suit hand-sewn by seamstresses whose usual work was sewing bras and girdles, but the head of suit development for Playtex, Lenny Sheperd, had only previously worked as a television repairman. An artifact of maker culture long-before-the-fact, the Apollo spacesuit holds crucial lessons for how we approach technology, and our own human nature.
Nicholas will be speaking at 1pm; check the final program for location.
After a mind-opening exploration of this artifact of maker culture, be sure to wrap up your visit to EBMMF with a look into the future. Tim O'Reilly, whose company O'Reilly Media produces the Maker Faire and MAKE magazine, and whom Inc and others have called the Oracle of Silicon Valley, is going to share his thoughts on what this all means in our closing speaking slot at 4pm. We asked him what he wanted to say in his talk, and here is how he replied:
Right now it's easy to see the maker movement simply as a DIY movement. But of course the PC and Internet revolutions also began as DIY phenomena. Inside each of was set of enormous cultural and technological changes with implications far greater than were anticipated at the time. This talk will explore where the maker movement is taking us. We'll cover everything from what the maker movement tells us about the future of manufacturing, health care, education and the economy.
Join us on October 16 for these and many more fascinating, informational, and inspirational talks.


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Google's 100% self-driving car prototype lacks steering wheel, pedals
By Justin Pritchard, Canadian Press
Automation Motion Control Automotive google self-driving carsCompany says it will produce 100 vehicles for to-be-determined pilot program.
LOS ANGELES — Google plans to build and launch onto city streets a small fleet of subcompact cars that could operate without a person at the wheel.
Actually, the cars wouldn't even have a wheel. Or gas and brake pedals. The company says the vehicles will use sensors and computing power, with no human needed.
Google Inc. hopes that by this time next year, 100 of the two-seaters will be on public roads, following extensive testing. The cars would not be for sale and instead would be provided to select operators for further tweaking and have limitations such as a 25 mph top speed.
The announcement presents a challenge to automakers that have been more cautious about introducing fully automated driving and to government regulators who are scrambling to accommodate self-driving cars on public roads. Other companies are working on the technology but none as large as Google has said it intends to put such cars in the hands of the public so soon.
To date, Google has driven hundreds of thousands of miles on public roads and freeways in Lexus SUVs and Toyota Priuses outfitted with special sensors and cameras. But with a "safety driver" in the front seat, those vehicles were not truly self-driving.
Instead of the standard controls, the prototypes would have buttons to begin and end the drive. Passengers would set a destination. The car would then make turns and react to other vehicles and pedestrians based on computer programs that predict what others might do, and data from sensors including radar and cameras that read in real time what other objects are actually doing.
The route might be set by typing a destination into a map or using spoken commands, Chris Urmson, the leader of Google's self-driving car team, told reporters Wednesday.
The car will be powered by electricity and could go about 100 miles before charging. Its shape suggests a rounded-out Volkswagen Beetle — something that might move people around a corporate campus or congested downtown — with headlights and sensors arrayed to resemble a friendly face.
Major automakers have steadily introduced technology that helps cars stay in their lanes and avoid accidents. However, all those vehicles come with a steering wheel and pedals — and the expectation that a driver will jump in should trouble arise. Several companies have said they expect by 2020 to market vehicles that can drive themselves under certain conditions.
"Nothing is going to change overnight, but (Google's announcement) is another sign of the drastic shifts in automotive technology, business practices and retailing we're going to witness," said Karl Brauer, a senior analyst at Kelley Blue Book's KBB.com.
A French company, Induct Technology, has produced a driverless shuttle, which in February drove people around a hospital campus in South Carolina. But in terms of a truly self-driving car from a major company, Google looks to be first.
The tech titan began developing the prototype more than a year ago after it loaned some employees its retrofitted Lexuses and saw that some "would basically trust the technology more than it was ready to be trusted," Urmson said. Making a car that drives itself seemed more practical than somehow ensuring that people zoning out behind the wheel could take over at a moment's notice.
The first 100 prototypes will be built in the Detroit area with the help of firms that specialize in autos, Google said. It would not identify those firms or discuss the cost of each prototype.
This summer, Google plans to send test prototypes on closed courses, then later this year on public streets. Those test cars will have a wheel and pedals because under California law a test driver must be able to take immediate control.
By summer 2015, however, California's Department of Motor Vehicles must publish regulations allowing the public to use truly driverless cars. Big questions the DMV is wrestling with include who is liable if a driverless car crashes and how the state can be confident that an automated car drives at least as safely as a person.
That change in the law would allow the 100 prototypes that would be intended for a public "pilot project" — details to be determined — to not have a steering wheel or pedals.
Though next year is the goal for the pilot project, Urmson said public access "won't happen until we're confident in the safety."
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The following article is taken from the Singapore International Arbitration Centre. Click here to go the original article.
The Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC) is pleased to announce the appointment of Ms Delphine Ho as Registrar of SIAC with effect from 20 May 2016, and the promotion of its Deputy Registrar, Mr Kevin Nash, to Deputy Registrar and Centre Director, effective 1 May 2016. Ms Ho will succeed the former Registrar, Ms Tan Ai Leen, who has moved to an in-house role.
Ms Ho graduated from the National University of Singapore, and is qualified both as an advocate and solicitor in Singapore and as a solicitor in England and Wales. Ms Ho was previously in private practice with leading Singapore local firms, where her areas of practice included international and domestic arbitrations, cross-border commercial disputes, and building and construction as well as company and shareholder matters. Prior to joining SIAC, she was in public service as an Assistant Registrar of the Supreme Court of Singapore.
As Registrar, Ms Ho will oversee the SIAC Secretariat in the provision of case management services. In addition, under the International Arbitration Act, she will be the statutory authority for taxation of costs.
Mr Nash is currently the Acting Registrar of SIAC during the interim period prior to Ms Ho's commencement as Registrar. Following his promotion to Deputy Registrar and Centre Director, Mr Nash will assume additional responsibilities in business development and the recruitment and professional development of counsel in the SIAC Secretariat.
Mr Gary Born, President of the SIAC Court of Arbitration, commented, "The addition of Ms Ho and promotion of Mr Nash reflect the continuing growth of SIAC's caseload and our commitment to providing the highest standard of efficient, professional case management for international arbitrations."
Ms Lim Seok Hui, CEO of SIAC and the Singapore International Mediation Centre, said, "We are delighted to welcome Delphine, an experienced arbitration practitioner who has worked in both the private and public sectors, to the SIAC team, and warmly congratulate Kevin on his well-deserved promotion, which is a timely acknowledgement of his hard work, commitment and efforts since joining SIAC in 2012. We look forward to working closely together with the SIAC Board of Directors and SIAC Court of Arbitration to consolidate our position at the forefront of institutional arbitration by continuing to focus on delivering world-class dispute resolution services to users in the international arbitration community."
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My two debates with Sheikh Awal have been canceled, and due to this display of Muslim intimidation, manipulation, and bullying, Sam is no longer willing to debate Sheikh Awal. There is, however, no reason to cancel the debates with Sheikh Jowad Al-Ansari, so those will go on as scheduled (unless Muslims find some excuse to complain about those as well). There is also no reason for James not to debate Sheikh Awal, so I suspect that this debate will proceed as scheduled as well.
Unless another Muslim agrees to step in at the last minute (highly doubtful, with only a month remaining), in place of the canceled debates, we will have lectures on the debate topics at the scheduled times. There will be an open mic after each lecture, so that Muslims and Christians have an opportunity to ask questions, raise objections, etc. We will also announce that the debates were canceled due to Muslim complaints, and the reasons for the complaints.
I'm not sure who supported the cancellation of the debates, but based on past comments, I'm guessing that Yahya Snow is now engaging in manipulation to prevent open dialogue. (If I'm wrong in thinking that Yahya is the guilty party, please let me know and I will correct this post. I suspect Yahya because his work seems to revolve around complaining about people who inform others of the reasons for Muslim atrocities, and because he often goes behind people's backs to complain about them in an effort to create division.)
It seems that debate and dialogue have suffered a major hit today. When Muslims kill people for criticizing Muhammad, I will always (and I mean ALWAYS) show people why Muslims are killing. This is non-negotiable. But it also seems that Yahya Snow has started a campaign of whining in an effort to shut down all dialogue with people who insist that Muslim atrocities must be exposed. And since they are taking the extraordinarily desperate step of contacting people around the world in order to shut down debates, it seems I will now be debating atheists (who aren't nearly as sensitive and manipulative as our Muslim friends!). Of course, if this tactic is successful, we can expect further demands (e.g. nothing negative or critical about Islam, or no debates!).
I will say now that I regard the efforts of Yahya as a milder form of terrorism. To see why, consider Revolution Muslim's threats against Trey Parker and Matt Stone. The message was, "Don't insult Muhammad, OR ELSE" (where "or else" refers to being brutally slaughtered by Muslims). Yahya Snow has a similar message: "Don't show people why Muslims are brutally murdering people, OR ELSE" (where "or else" refers to shutting down debates, as if this will get me to submit to their demands). I might as well proclaim now, and for all time, that I will never (and I mean NEVER) back down in the face of such manipulation and intimidation. When Muslims kill and slaughter, I am going to post the reasons (whether cartoons, videos, etc.) that supposedly justify the killing and slaughtering. If that means that dozens of future debates won't take place, or that Sam and I will now need to focus on debating people who don't look for excuses to avoid losing debates, all I can say is . . . "Farewell Debate! Long Live Liberty!"
On the positive side, I now have a ton of time for my "Qur'an Errors" series! Stay tuned!
****UPDATE**** Yahya Snow has acknowledged his responsibility in calling for a shut down to the debates. You can visit his (horribly deceptive) website to assess his claims (such as his claim that Van Gogh's "Submission" is pornographic). He added in the comments section:
I must say David's claim of "mild terrorism" is far-fetched and sensationalistic to an extreme.
David misses the point. The point is not to silence Wood but to make a statement of responsibility; why should Wood's behaviour go over-looked?...It sends the wrong message to the Truth-seeker and other apologists.
The way to guarantee a debate is not to incite and provoke but to produce material of scholarly substance and intellectual honesty
As for the sheikh's cancellation...it appears some other person(s) communicated with the Sheikh prior to me...this just highlights the fact that it is not simply a rogue individual who feels David Wood is not a responsible choice for a debate opponent but it ponts to a collective feel...this "collective feel" is vindicated by the said sheikh withdrawing.
Rather than Wood attempting to pass himself off as a martyr he would be better advised to self-reflect upon his recent behaviour which drew concern from both Christians and Muslims.
Observe his comment: "The way to guarantee a debate is not to incite and provoke but to produce material of scholarly substance and intellectual honesty." Translation: If you do something to offend Muslims, no debates! (Isn't that what I said his message was? And isn't this why I called it an "OR ELSE" mild form of terrorism. "Don't tell people why Muslims are butchering people, or else!")
Yahya keeps referring to my "recent behaviour which drew concern from both Christians and Muslims." Where exactly is the Christian concern? So far as I can tell, virtually every non-Muslim on this blog agreed that it's relevant to post the reasons (even if those reasons are cartoons) Muslims are killing and threatening people. (And if Yahya really believes in listening to concerned individuals, he might want to check out the concern over his behavior.)
So Yahya calls for a cancellation of the debates, but says that other people must have contacted the Sheikh. But why did they contact the Sheikh? Because of my recent behavior? Nonsense. I've always posted cartoons when Muslims kill over them. Long before this blog even existed, I posted the cartoons here when riots erupted. No one went berserk. I had more than two dozen public debates with Muslims after I posted these cartoons.
Or was it because I posted the "pornographic" video "Submission"? "Submission" was one of the first posts on this website ever, and I have reposted it numerous times. No one ever threw a tantrum over it until Yahya Snow came along. He goes around the internet saying, "Look, David Wood has posted pornography!" Really? Then why can a four-year-old watch this "pornography" on YouTube? Doesn't Yahya know that four-year-olds can't watch pornography on YouTube? But this doesn't stop Yahya. He goes around complaining to Muslims until everyone is convinced that they'd better not click on that (brilliant and moving) video, since it's filled with "pornography." These Muslims then go around the internet like Yahya, saying, "Don't go to Answering Muslims! It's filled with pornography! Don't discuss things with David Wood! He's an evil pornography-poster!"
This is pathetic. Yahya, you've been an instigating, division-causing trouble-maker since you got here. You were banned once for treating Christians like your Dhimmis. Later, I started letting some of your comments through, and they were filled with more irrational complaints. Now debates have been shut down because of your complaints and whining. Not only debates with me, but debates with Sam will not take place this year because of you. And yet you'll say, "NO! IT'S BECAUSE OF YOUR BAD BEHAVIOR DAVID!" Nonsense. I've been critical of Muhammad for years, and I've been posting videos and news-worthy cartoons for years, and it's never been a problem for Muslims. It wasn't a problem until you came along. What makes all of this worse is that you pretend to be respectful and kind, when your entire goal is to divide and conquer.
Well Yahya, you are now officially banned from Answering Muslims. If you're shutting down debate and dialogue because I've posted news-worthy cartoons on this website, then practice what you preach. Shut down the dialogue and don't leave anymore comments. It's a matter of consistency, you see. You can't say, "No debate or dialogue with David Wood" and then attempt to have debate and dialogue with David Wood.
Say "Thank You" to Yahya, everyone. He's doing some amazing work in the world (though it seems to consist of nothing but complaining, manipulating, backbiting, ruining events, shutting down dialogue, and so on). Perhaps he can join Osama Abdallah's website. He'd fit right in. (Actually, I think I would get along with Osama better than I would get along with Yahya.)
****2ND UPDATE**** I have heard from two members of MDI (Yahya and Sami), who say that MDI has nothing to do with boycotting any debates. At the same time, one of the American members (Farhan) seems to support the cancellation. But any action taken by individual MDI members doesn't seem to reflect any official position of the organization. So I've removed references to MDI in this post.
This does leave open the question of Yahya Snow's claim that I am being banned by a UK apologetics organization. Yahya is banned from AM, but he gets a one-time pass to clarify this issue. Which organization has banned me, Yahya? Some organization that I've never heard of? Or were you making things up about MDI?
8:30--Still waiting, Yahya.
9:00--No, I'm not PMing you, Yahya. You're the one who has decided to cut off dialogue, and as I've said, this means there will be no more dialogue with you. I've offered you a one-time chance to clarify your claim that I'm under a boycott by a UK apologetics group. So post a comment clarifying which group this is. After that, you and I will never interact again.
9:30--I repeat, Yahya, I'm not PMing you. You gave up the right to rational discourse when you called for debate cancellations, and most of us here want nothing to do with you ever again. So either post a clarification concerning which UK apologetics group has called for a boycott (of the infamous David Wood, who insists that the reasons for Muslim violence should be shown to the world), or quit sending me messages.
6;30 (the next day)--Well, we've given Yahya Snow all the time in the world to tell us which UK Muslim apologetics group has boycotted me. He still hasn't answered, despite numerous messages sent to me. Was Yahya making this up? I know he's made up quite a bit in the past. Is this Taqiyya? So much for Yahya's "nice guy" charade.
7:30--Well, Yahya now says that he won't reveal the UK Muslim Apologetics group that has boycotted me. A secret boycott sounds quite strange. What's the point of boycotting someone who doesn't know he's boycotted? Yahya has also complained that I'm vilifying him, when he's shown such dear friendship and concern for me. I invite everyone to go through Yahya's website and videos. He's been attacking me and Sam for months, with practically no response from us. Then, as soon as I respond, suddenly Yahya is my buddy and how dare I criticize him for calling for an end to my debates, telling people I've been boycotted by an unknown group, deceiving people about me, etc. This is my message to Yahya: If you want to be on friendly terms with people, you shouldn't do the sort of things you do. Stop it, and maybe people will start treating you as a friend. As long as you continue to act the way you do, don't expect people to pay attention to you. Based on your never ending supply of videos and articles, it seems you desperately wanted attention from me and Sam. Now that you've got my attention, why are you complaining? Did you really think you'd go around the internet attacking me forever (e.g. your complaints to Negeen and Nabeel, attempting to cause division), without a response? Change your ways, Yahya. Attempting to shut down debate is unacceptable. Read the comments here and see how repulsed people are at your behavior. If you want to be on better terms with them, you'll need to make some changes.
10:00--Yahya says I should contact the founders of every UK Muslim apologetics group I know of in hopes that I might figure out which one has boycotted me. Sheesh! I give up. Here's a summary of the conversation over the past few weeks:
YAHYA: "Don't deal with the unethical, immoral, wicked David Wood who openly displays pornography on his website! I'll send messages to his friend Nabeel and his friend Negeen to try and cause division! Yes, stay away from this evil person! He's so evil, he's been boycotted by a Muslim apologetics organization here in the UK!"
DAVID: "So which organization has boycotted me?"
YAHYA: "I can't tell you."
DAVID: "You can't tell me? There's supposedly a boycott on me."
YAHYA: "Well, in order to find out which Muslim apologetics group is boycotting you, you'll have to start contacting the founders of Muslim apologetics groups. Maybe you'll find the one that's boycotting you."
DAVID: "Do you know what a boycott is, Yahya?"
Then, strangely, after months of attacks, insults, and outright deception, and after he called for an end to two debate careers, Yahya had the nerve to insist that he's been a great friend to me all along, and that he's secretly defending me behind the scenes. Well, with friends like Yahya . . .


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Humans aren't the only creatures seeking warmth and shelter during winter's harsh temperatures and snow. Many pests make their way indoors and invade our sacred space in search of food and hiding and nesting spots, according to the National Pest Management Association (NPMA).
Mice, one of the most common winter pests, can enter homes through openings as small as the size of a dime. Once inside, mice are capable of chewing through walls, electrical wires and baseboards and breed at alarming rates -- producing as many as a dozen babies every three weeks. Signs of an infestation include scampering sounds at night in walls and ceilings, droppings found in undisturbed places and damaged or partially eaten food.
While mice and rodents in general are the more rampant pests in winter, other pests such as spiders, ants, cockroaches and sometimes even nuisance wildlife find their way inside homes, posing a variety of risks to humans. Whether it's health risks such as Salmonella and allergies from cockroaches, painful and itchy bites from spiders or other diseases and property damage from rodents and wildlife, NPMA's experts encourage homeowners to take precautionary steps to keep these pests out of their homes this winter.
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TodayGardener and his crew will depart in their seed pod; the replacement crew is readyto carry on in their place. He iswearing his space suit undergarments. Not too stylish but functional. Hegave all of us an extra long smell. Hisnose twitched with the slightest tickle from the leaf hairs on little Zuc. He said that what will be is for thebest. It has been a wonderful journey;one chapter is closing, another is opening. He had tears in his eyes, not just a smalldrop at the corners but a pool that was making him blink. He reached up and turned out the light. In the frontier you should not be afraid ofthe dark.
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Hungry for a good dystopia? Well, as you may be gathering from reports of the millions of tickets sold before prints were even shipped to theaters, author Suzanne Collins has a feast for you in the first movie installment of her young-adult trilogy The Hunger Games.
In the novels, she imagined a society called Panem, built on the ruins of a war-torn, climate-ravaged North America, and it's been efficiently brought to screen life — a totalitarian society where the war's victors live in a shining city on a hill and keep the losers — the 99 percent? — in the direst poverty, living in 12 variously starving and miserable districts.
The 1-percenters can't help rubbing their dominance in, and Collins' central notion — reportedly inspired by channel-surfing between reality shows and news reports of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq — is that to be sure the losers never forget how completely they've been subjugated, the Capitol stages a televised ritual each year: kids fighting kids to the death.
It's called the Hunger Games, and it requires each district to provide two "tributes" between the ages of 12 and 18, a boy and a girl selected by lottery to battle in a huge arena where cameras capture their every feint, thrust and death throe.
It's the ultimate TV game show: required viewing for the subjugated masses — an effective way for a totalitarian few to say, "If we can kill your kids for sport, what else might we do?" — and cheery entertainment for the privileged few in the Capitol.
First place gets the winner a life free from starvation. Second place ... well, there is no second place. But as everyone keeps saying, "May the odds be ever in your favor."
The tributes we follow hail from District 12, which looks a lot like Dorothea Lange's photos of Depression-era Appalachia. The names pulled from a fishbowl at the "reaping" are those of a baker's son (Peeta Melark, played by a bland but serviceable Josh Hutcherson), and a coal miner's daughter named Primrose (Willow Shields), who's so afraid of her own shadow that she wouldn't last two minutes in the arena. Knowing that, her older sister, Katniss (Jennifer Lawrence), volunteers to take her place.
Volunteers, that is, to be slaughtered on television in front of all of Panem — a great TV moment, wouldn't you say? And one that's captured on lots of on-screen screens so you won't miss that point. In the novel, it's easy to forget about the TV cameras, because 16-year-old Katniss is the narrator, and when she plunges into the arena you plunge in with her — a level of engagement most filmmakers would (pardon the expression) kill for.
Director Gary Ross (who shares screenplay credit with Collins and Billy Ray) wants a different sort of audience buy-in. He keeps cutting to blue-haired TV host Caesar Flickerman (Stanley Tucci, unctuous and clearly enjoying himself) to emphasize what you might call a celebrity-TV-on-steroids creepiness. This is, after all, kids killing kids as entertainment — American Idol with knives — and once the games begin, we in the movie audience will be as guilty of being entertained as the folks in the Capitol: To root for Peeta and Katniss, after all, is to root for other kids to be slaughtered (albeit in violence so sliced and diced in the editing room that it's earned a PG-13 rating).
The film's biggest asset is Lawrence, who makes Katniss just as tough and smart as the last coal miner's daughter she played — in Winter's Bone, where she took home an Oscar nomination for doing many of the same things she does here. (Shooting small game in the rural wilds, for instance, to provide for younger siblings and an ineffectual mother.)
If you're older than the film's target audience, that won't be the only outside reference that'll occur to you as you watch the film. There's the dressing-up-to-be-selected-to-die scene from the short story The Lottery; the Wizard of Oz by way of Dr. Seuss hairstyles and fashions of the Capitol; the plot that mirrors the Japanese teen flick Battle Royale, and a generous helping of fall-of-Rome references, from the tributes' introductory chariot ride through the streets of the Capitol to such sibilant character names as Cinna, Seneca and Caesar to the name of the country itself: Panem, which sounds like a shortening of Pan American but is actually from the Latin "panem et circenses," for "bread and circuses."
The cribbing from real-world and literary sources is so wide-ranging, in fact, that when Katniss is being coached for her first TV interview by a tipsy Woody Harrelson (largely wasted as District 12 mentor Haymitch) and a pansexually seductive Lenny Kravitz (making a substantial impression with very few lines but some fetching gold eyeshadow), it might occur to you that there's a Pygmalion thing going on with her makeover. Not because anyone's humming "The Rain in Spain" while she's being dressed to kill, but because The Hunger Games — like the Potter and Twilight franchises — is such a relentless aggregator of pop-culture references that you figure the connection must've occurred to someone.
Though the filmmakers have made some modestly interesting casting choices — both tributes from District 11, for instance, are what I suppose you'd have to call African-Panemian, something Collins doesn't hint at in the novel — the movie doesn't actually have a lot to say about the social issues it brings up. And its literalness did make me question things I hadn't while reading the book — say, that a society with hovercraft and digitally created carnivores is still this dependent on coal?
Still, The Hunger Games' pacing is brisk, its stakes as high as stakes get, and its leading lady engaging enough that the odds — at the box office at least — will be ever in its favor.
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MENTER, WILL: Song sculptures
A fine idea. Will Menter, sound artist and inventor of many beautiful sound-sculptures, some playable, some played by the elements (air, water) has, with singer Sianed Jones, who also plays violin, double bassist Benoit Keller, and slate marimba player Pierre Corbi - composed a cycle of open songs working with these resources, and occasional saxophone, which he also plays. There are very long beautiful passages and the sounds of the sculptures are exquisite, their use effective and imaginative. In fact I like almost everything about this record, except the texts and the way the voice is used. Its not a criticism of the singer, it's just the form, and a sensitivity, very personal, to a certain way with words. But there is much I like (the track Falling Water, without voice, is a pleasure that could be extended for an entire CD). And, of course my reservations may not be yours. A difficult call, so I include it, with reservation; it's an interesting undertaking...
Code: menterSculpture
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...because you'll need it! GO USA!
Ice Hockey - Men's Gold Medal Game - USA vs. Canada - 12:15 p.m. PT
top photo by Jon SooHoo/Dodgers; bottom photo by Julie Jacobson/AP
Random rantings and ravings about the Los Angeles Dodgers, written by a small consortium of rabid Dodger fans. With occasional comments on baseball, entertainment, pop culture, and life in general.
...because you'll need it! GO USA!
Ice Hockey - Men's Gold Medal Game - USA vs. Canada - 12:15 p.m. PT
top photo by Jon SooHoo/Dodgers; bottom photo by Julie Jacobson/AP
Take off, eh.
Knock, knock.
Who's there?
The Gunners and another broken leg.
Supply your own punch line.
2:52 left. This is a little tense.
Silence in the Great White North.
After Chelsea bottled it yesterday, I'm in a self-imposed Premiership news blackout. Sorry about Ramsey, though. At least it didn't look intentional (not that that changes anything).
Suck it you maple syrup swilling mountie mounters!
I don't know jack sh*t about hockey but I'm rolling over in my grave. USA USA USA
Back to the Lakers.
Oh well. Congrats to Canada!
Heh...nice one Pedro.
Orel, stop being a suck up. Fck Canada. How many World Series do they have again?
Fuck Canada.
Oh, and thanks for telling me that this would be a game thread.
Well, we got 104....USA USA USA
Canada has two more World Series than Jints do, modernly.
Hopefully this Canada win will be the springboard that J-Mart needs for success in the upcoming season.
Watching the baseball "classic" on the telly.
1) Glad UCLA is spanking the Spoiled Children.
2) Dude just jacked one out and they played the traditional post-home run house music.
3) Good crowd today but many left before the end of the game. Sounds familiar.
4) They played DSB!
5) Camera keeps showing Jackie Robinson retired number in the Pavilion. Any other situation and I'd complain about them going on and on about something. Naw. They could just have a #42 cam 24-7 and I'd watch it.
Dusty out...
Dammit. I was at the Dodgertown Classic, and I watched USA lose on a little TV next to the Dodger Dog stand.
Could be worse, could be raining.
No, Lakers could have lost. That would have made the trifecta for me.
That was pretty awesome, and I dont mind that Canada won. It's their game, their Olympics, we beat them earlier in the games, we scored late to make it a classic game, but they end up winning it. I think it all finished up very fairly.
Except the fact that it was Crosby who got the winner. Anybody but him.
ThoughCraosby came through in the clutch, Derek Jeter was still tournament MVP in my book.
I think we can award him the unobtainium medal on general principle. What's the official anthem of Derek Jeter nation?
unobtainium medal - nice!
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5/13 vs. SD (W, 4-2): Sax
5/30 vs. WSH (W, 9-3): Sax
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Metro Vancouver sales should start to pick up as prices decline
Homebuyers in the Lower Mainland remained on the sidelines in January, with markedly lower sales in both Metro Vancouver and the Fraser Valley.
The Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver saw 1,351 sales cleared through the Multiple Listing Service in January, down 14 per cent from the same month a year ago. And January's sales were down 18 per cent from the previous month.
In the Fraser Valley, the sales decline was even steeper – 23-per-cent lower, to 617.
"January's numbers are not a surprise," according to Cameron Muir, chief economist for the B.C. Real Estate Association.
Muir said stricter mortgage rules introduced for first-time buyers last summer bit into sales earlier, but now the bigger factor in declining sales is consumer sentiment that home prices will continue to decline.
Prices in both regions have edged lower from peak levels seen last spring. In Greater Vancouver, the benchmark price for a typical home across the region declined six per cent to $588,100, from $625,100 last May. That price is now 2.8-per-cent lower than the same month a year ago.
In the Fraser Valley, the benchmark price of $420,900 across all property types for typical homes sold was down 2.5 per cent over the last six months.
In his most recent forecast, released last week, Muir estimated lower prices will make housing more affordable for more buyers, and help turn around the decline in sales by the next quarter.
He added that the fundamentals of employment growth, population growth and stronger economic activity that B.C. is experiencing should support a higher level of housing sales than the Lower Mainland saw in January.
"Some buyers may be sitting on the sideline waiting for a deflationary spiral to develop," Muir said.
"When that doesn't develop, when they realize they're not going to see significant declines in pricing, they'll get on with their lives and move on with purchasing decisions."
The January numbers do hint at a slowing in the trend of declining sales, according to Tsur Somerville, director of the centre for urban economics and real estate in the Sauder School of Business at the University of B.C.
He noted that in December, Metro Vancouver's decline in sales was deeper at 31 per cent, so January's numbers "suggest that there is a possibility the decline in sales should well flatten out."
And there are some signs home sellers are also beginning to head to the sidelines.
In the Greater Vancouver board, while its inventory of 13,246 homes is 5.6-per-cent bigger than the same month a year ago, new listings slowed 11 per cent to 5,128 in January compared with the same month a year ago. In the Fraser Valley, new listings in January dropped four per cent to 2,643 compared with the same month a year ago, and the overall inventory of 8,031 homes is down 3.5 per cent from last January.
"When a home seller isn't receiving the kind of offers they want, there comes a point when they decide to either lower the price or remove the home from the market," Eugen Klein, president of the Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver said in a statement. "Right now, it seems many home sellers are opting for the latter."
Source: Derrick Penner, Vancouver Sun


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This Oct. 12, 2013 photo shows actor Matthew McConaughey at the Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif. McConaughey stars as Texan Ron Woodroof in the based-on-a-true story, "Dallas Buyers Club." The film releases, Friday, Nov. 1, 2013. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)
by Jessica Herndon
AP Film Writer
LOS ANGELES (AP) — In 1986, Texan Ron Woodroof was diagnosed with HIV and given 30 days to live. When receiving the news, the rodeo-lover argued with the doctor, saying only homosexuals got such a disease-and he was as straight as they came.
Matthew McConaughey, as Woodroof in the based-on-a-true-story "Dallas Buyers Club," out this Friday, is magnificently cringe-worthy as this very scene plays out in the film.
"We had to go all the way unabashed with that," said McConaughey in a recent interview to promote the film. "I would go as far as I could with the stuff that Ron thought, which was the stuff that made people go 'You bigot, racist.'"
But the beauty of Woodroof's story, and McConaughey's ability to portray him, is in its arc: Following his diagnosis, Woodroof illegally imported drugs from other countries to counteract the effects of HIV and AIDS because of the lack of treatments in the U.S. approved by the Food and Drug Administration. He also became friends and business partners with a transgender named Rayon, played by Jared Leto.
To immerse himself in this role, McConaughey read Woodroof's diary and listened to hours of taped conversations between Woodroof and "Dallas Buyers Club" screenwriter Craig Borten.
"I saw a guy who was a dreamer and who was lonely, isolated, and who could never finish anything," said McConaughey. "He was aimless and the irony is it took him having HIV to help him find a goal."
To look the part of the gaunt Woodroof, McConaughey lost over 45 pounds. The first time the actor saw himself on-screen, he thought, '"Whoa, you look like a reptile, man.' I didn't feel like I was watching me."
But sacrificing his good looks for the role "was not a huge concern," said the 43-year-old. "There is something valuable to not being able to use certain things that may be a strength. You use other instruments."
While losing the weight, the actor said his family's reaction was subtle. "They saw me every day. But there was one day when Vidy goes 'Why is your neck like a giraffe?'" he added with a chuckle, remembering his 3-year-old daughter's reaction to his shrinking physique.
Wife Camilla Alves "helped me stay controlled," added McConaughey of his minimalist diet, which included meals like a 5 oz. piece of fish and a cup of vegetables. "But I found some sort of sick pleasure in doing all the cooking. I also needed less sleep and my memory was incredibly sharp."
But McConaughey was soon back to his 182-pound frame to play a finance fast-talker in Martin Scorsese's upcoming "The Wolf of Wall Street" and a detective in the HBO series "True Detective," premiering in January.
Grittier roles, including 2011's "Killer Joe," and 2012's "The Paperboy" and "Mud," demonstrate McConaughey's versatility, and there's talk "Dallas Buyers Club" could score him an Oscar nomination.
"I'm very excited about that possibility," he said. "I feel that it is more than fair to judge art. If that happened that's wonderful."
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- 1 Welcome!
- 2 Ideas
- 2.1 Upstreaming Beagleboard.org Kernel Patches
- 2.2 Create Linux userspace libraries for use with Wiring/Processing environment using the Arduino IDE
- 2.3 IIO debugging tools
- 2.4 node-webkit based cross-platform getting-started app
- 2.5 OpenEmbedded support for npm packages for node.js
- 2.6 Bonescript web pages with live-running examples and documentation
- 2.7 Integrate support libraries into Angstrom
- 2.8 SYSFS entries for IIO and PWM
- 2.9 Using BeagleBone PRUs to control CNC and 3D printer stepper motor Drivers
- 2.10 PRU upstreaming
- 2.11 PRU firmware loader
- 2.12 BotSpeak virtual machine for Bonescript and PRU
- 2.13 Android-based boot host
- 2.14 Android under Angstrom
- 2.15 Library of Arduino-compatible functions for StarterWare
- 2.16 Previous ideas
- 3 Mentors
BeagleBoard.org hopes to be accepted as a mentoring organization in the Google Summer of Code for 2013! Below, we've collected project ideas for the 2013 GSoC.
BeagleBoard.org is a volunteer organization that seeks to advance the state of open-source software on open-source hardware platforms capable of running high-level languages and operating systems (primarily Linux) in embedded environments. Born from taking mobile phone processors and putting them on low-cost boards to build affordable desktop computers, BeagleBoard.org has evolved to focus on the needs of the "maker" community with greater focus on the I/O needed for controlling motors and reading sensors to build things like robots, 3d printers, flying drones, in-car computer systems and much more. Past BeagleBoard.org GSoC projects included an RPC framework for heterogeneous processor communication, a transparent USB packet sniffer, ARM optimizations for XBMC, ARM optimizations for FFTs, make-shift pulse-width-modulation and RPC optimizations for OpenCV. BeagleBoard.org has benefited from sponsorship from Texas Instruments, CircuitCo, Digi-Key and others, but avoids any dependence on that sponsorship for sustaining the effort. The project has evolved over the past few years with over 100,000 boards in circulation with developers worldwide and strong roots in the Linaro, Yocto Project, Angstrom Distribution and Linux communities---and support for running most major Linux distributions including Ubuntu, Android, Fedora, Debian, ArchLinux, Gentoo, Buildroot and many more.
BeagleBoard was inspiration for Raspberry Pi[1] and will be more affordable at the time GSoC launches[2], but is more than a throw-away computer. It is true open hardware, exposing users to the broader world of electronics, demystifying computers and fostering an environment of clones that have changed the industry.
Students will be expected to demonstrate an understanding of cross-compiling before being accepted, but support for demonstration is available through the IRC channel that typically has approximately 150 online chatters logged on at any time, most with sufficient experience to explain the process.
Every accepted student will be sent a BeagleBone Black before the first week of coding for testing their project.
Additional hardware will be provided depending on need and value.
For more information, check out http://beagleboard.org and http://beagleboard.org/brief.
Students looking for ideas
Student proposals can encompass projects inspired from the following list of ideas or can include personal project ideas. Previous Google Summer of Code projects show that the key to success is being passionate about your project, so propose something that is extremely interesting to you, even if it is not on this list. We will be glad to help students develop ideas into projects via the BeagleBoard IRC or the BeagleBoard mailing list. There are many potential project ideas and we will match students to projects based on their interests and help scope the proposals to something that can be completed in the Summer of Code timeframe.
There are more than 300 existing projects listed at http://beagleboard.org/project. If you are interested in one of the projects listed on the BeagleBoard.org projects page, talk with the project members to see if there are any aspects of their projects that can be used to create a GSoC project. There are also several ideas on theECE497 class project idea list. You can also check out last year's idea page.
Mentors wondering where to help
Please start by registering your ideas for student projects below by following the template provided with the existing ideas. Furthermore, scroll down to the bottom and give everyone a bit of information about your expertise and availability by adding yourself to the table. Jason will make final approvals for mentor assignments based on if we first get accepted as a mentoring organization and best matching mentor skill sets with student project ideas deemed valuable to the community.
General requirements
All projects have the following basic requirements:
- Once accepted, the project must be registered on http://beagleboard.org/project.
- All newly generated materials must be released under an open source license.
- Individual students shall retain copyright on their works.
- Source code generated during the project must be released on github.com (to be cloned to github.com/beagleboard on successful completion).
- The registration on http://beagleboard.org/project must include an RSS feed with project announcements and updates at every milestone. Sources for the RSS feed should be blogger.com, wordpress.com, or some other established blog-hosting service with known reliability.
- To help you to break your project down into manageable chunks and also to help the project's mentors to better support your efforts, weekly project status reports should be e-mailed to the project's mentors and the organization administrator (Jason Kridner). Each status report should outline:
- what was accomplished that week,
- any issues that prevented that week's goals from being completed and
- your goals for the next week.
- Students will provide two recorded audio/video presentations uploaded to youtube or vimeo (screencasts are appropriate), one near the beginning of the project summarizing their project goals and another in the wrap-up phase to summarize their accomplishments. Examples can be found on http://beagleboard.org/gsoc.
- Students will demonstrate their ability to cross-compile and utilize version control software by creating a "Hello World" application and generating a pull request to https://github.com/jadonk/gsoc-application/tree/master/ExampleEntryJasonKridner. For assistance, please visit http://beagleboard.org/chat or utilize the beagleboard-gsoc Google Group. The "Hello World" application must print your name and the date out in an ARM Linux environment. Freely available emulators may be used to test your application or you can ask anyone on the chat or mailing list to help you test.
- All projects will produce reusable software components and will not be "what–I-built-over-my-summer-vacation" projects. Including a hardware component is welcome, but the project *deliverable* will be software that may be utilized by a wide audience of the BeagleBoard.org community.
There are several areas needing contributions:
Kernel: Improving the state of the Linux kernel including improved ARM/OMAP/Sitara platform support, simplifying the development of add-on hardware for embedded systems and exchanging hardware connectivity information with userspace.
Secondary processor support (RPC/gcc/etc.): Enabling usage of DSPs, PRUs, FPGAs, Cortex-M3s, Arduinos, MSP430 launchpads and other attached processing platforms.
Scripting libraries and web interfaces: Improving the Bonescript JavaScript library, web-based interface libraries, examples or alternatives in other languages.
Frameworks for open-hardware projects: Consolidating support for simplified home manufacturing (CNC, 3D printers, laser cutters, pick-and-place machines, etc.), drones/bots (ROS, IMU, video streaming, etc.) or other common tasks.
Optimizations to existing userspace applications/libraries: Optimizations to applications and libraries like XBMC to make them run better on resource constrained environments or to take advantage of more specialized processing elements.
Upstreaming Beagleboard.org Kernel Patches
The BeagleBone currently relies on a number of out-of-tree kernel patches in order to boot. These patches are maintained by Koen Kooi (CircuitCo) and come from many sources, including TI employees and various mailing lists. Getting more of these patches upstream would make it easier to boot a BeagleBone and also make use of a BeagleBone easier for users and kernel developers who need to track upstream kernel changes, or who otherwise need to be closer to the bleeding edge of Linux kernel development. The current patch set is maintained at github and contains scripts to easily patch an upstream kernel. The scripts in this repository are used to build the BeagleBoard.org kernels which ship with the Angstrom SD card images.
Goal: Push as many patches as possible to Linus's mainline kernel tree via the appropriate staging kernels for the subsystems involved.
Existing Project: The Mainline Linux Kernel, patches needing to be pushed
Hardware Skills: Able to read schematics, understand basic digital logic and monitor logic-level digital signals.
Software Skills: Able to write software in C, create patches to the Linux kernel and perform cross-compilation and testing.
Possible mentors: Matt Porter, Koen Kooi, Alan Ott
Create Linux userspace libraries for use with Wiring/Processing environment using the Arduino IDE
For doing basic physical computing tasks, the most popular and understood API is clearly the Arduino API based off of Wiring. This project would utilize the Linux interfaces provided to userspace applications for the hardware functions.
Goal: Provide an implementation of most major Arduino functions for Linux userspace and verify on BeagleBoard-xM and BeagleBone Black.
Existing Project: Engeria userspace Linux fork
Hardware Skills: Understanding of serial ports and busses and how to use a scope
Software Skills: C/C++ and Linux kernel interfaces
Possible mentors: Jason Kridner, Dave Anders
IIO debugging tools
Quick background: IIO is the new way of doing sensors but being a newer interface, it lacks tools
for debugging. This project is to produce sometools to debug drivers.
There are several ways this project can happen:
1. We can implement userland tools that read IIO data similar to the evtest tool.
2. We can implement a event handler for the IIO driver. This way existing tools and code can be used. There was references from another mailing list (probally LKML) talking about this.
Goal: Userspace application similar to evtest that captures debug events and instrumented IIO driver code to produce those events.
Existing Project: patched kernel with IIO driver
Hardware Skills: None.
Software Skills:C coding (1), (2) requires kernel coding
Possible mentors: Hunyue Yau
node-webkit based cross-platform getting-started app
Newbies often have a difficult time following directions that could be replaced by an application. The steps to download and install an application is something that even newbies can typically manage. This avoid issues like having bad browsers or not having typical development tools like 'ssh'. This is a common problem across all embedded Linux platforms and node-webkit provides a good solution for making it cross-platform.
- Provide instructions for getting up-and-running with the board based (incorporate the Getting Started Guide)
- Automatically discover boards on the LAN using mDNS and predetermined IP addresses
- Act as a browser to interact with the board, including performing SSH and SCP
- Discover the latest SD card images from multiple distributions
- Bootload the board with a USB-mass-storage-class application
- Program SD cards through the board or a USB adapter
- Program on-board eMMC
Goal: Provide a downloadable application for Linux, Windows and Mac that enables unexperienced users to get going enough to start learning about using Linux and the embedded I/O.
Existing Project: Incomplete node webkit app for the BeagleBone Getting Started guide
Hardware Skills: N/A
Software Skills: Able to write software in JavaScript and work with node.js modules
Possible mentors: Jason Kridner
OpenEmbedded support for npm packages for node.js
Using npm for packages works well for grabbing most recent versions of things, but it doesn't work well to make sure you are getting tested versions built for your platform, it doesn't integrate with the native package manager, it is a huge security hole and it generally is a mess for distributions. OpenEmbedded provides a great vehicle for creating distributions that can professionally support deploying node.js packages rather than relying on a tool that is really only geared for prototyping.
- Create a bitbake 'npm' class
- Cross-build native code using node-waf, node-gyp and nw-gyp
- Create dependencies using package.json
Goal: Bitbake 'npm' class and recipes for tools like 'node-serialport', 'express', 'socket.io' and more.
Existing Project: http://www.openembedded.org/wiki/BitBake, https://npmjs.org/
Hardware Skills: N/A
Software Skills: Familiarity with C++, JavaScript and Python. Basic understanding of build systems.
Possible mentors: Jason Kridner
Bonescript web pages with live-running examples and documentation
Goal: Dozens of web pages with executable script that demonstrate how to connect up sensor and actuator hardware
Existing Projects: https://github.com/jadonk/bonescript, BMP085 Bonescript example, ECE497 examples
Hardware Skills: Basic knowledge of digital circuits.
Software Skills: JavaScript and some familiarity with Linux
Possible mentors: Jason Kridner
Integrate support libraries into Angstrom
Many BeagleBone and embedded Linux support libraries in various programming languages exist as projects that aren't included in the distro shipped with BeagleBoard and BeagleBone. These need bitbake recipes added to meta-beagleboard such that they can be easily downloaded and incorporated into the shipping distro.
- Python PyBBIO
- Ruby beaglebone-ruby
- Perl bonelib
Goal: PyBBIO, beaglebone-ruby and bonelib included in the distro shipping with BeagleBone
Existing Project: PyBBIO, beaglebone-ruby, bonelib
Hardware Skills: Able to wire up simple hardware, like LEDs
Software Skills: Familiarity with Python, Ruby, Perl, embedded Linux and build systems.
Possible mentors: Jason Kridner
SYSFS entries for IIO and PWM
IIO and PWM provide mechanisms for sampling touch screens, performing general purpose A/D conversions to read sensors, generating voltage levels and driving motors. The Linux kernel SYSFS mechanism provides a simplified mechanism for userspace applications to set parameters and read/write data values.
Goal: Push patches to Linux mainline providing SYSFS entries for IIO and PWM useful for building a demo robot
Existing project: http://github.com/beagleboard/kernel
Hardware skills: Able to read schematics, understand basic digital logic and monitor logic-level digital signals
Software skills: Able to write software in C, create patches to the Linux kernel and perform cross-compilation
Possible mentors: Laine Walker-Avina
Using BeagleBone PRUs to control CNC and 3D printer stepper motor Drivers
This project is to write code for the PRU (realtime processors on the AM335x used in the Beagle Bone) so that it can generate multiple step and direction outputs based on a queue of commands in real time. This needs to be done in real time so the acceleration and coordination of multiple stepper motors can be controlled and coordinated. A step/dir signal is commonly used in a lot of stepper motor drivers. While it is possible to generate stepper phase information from the PRU, it is also undesireable from a testing stand point. An example of a reason for doing this is controlling the X/Y directions of the head of a 3D printer so that it can generate precise curves. While similar code has been done, it is not done in a real time fashion so it is difficult to add coordination between motors and/or maintain a known acceleration.
Goal: create code to use the AM335x PRUs to generate multiple step and direction outputs for reprap and CNC applications
Existing projects: Pru Documentation, UIO Driver documentation
Hardware skills: Able to read schematics, understand basic digital logic and monitor logic-level digital signals
Software skills: Assembly and C coding. Node.js for g-code interpretation
Possible mentors: Tom King, Jason Kridner, Hunyue Yau, Laine Walker-Avina
PRU upstreaming
Remove HWMOD dependency requirement for PRU along with adding device tree bindings so it can be upstreamed into Linus's tree.
Goal: Push patches to Linux mainline providing support for the AM335x PRU
Existing project: https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/
Hardware skills: Able to read schematics, understand basic digital logic and monitor logic-level digital signals
Software skills: Able to write software in C, understand existing patches with PRU support, create patches to the Linux kernel and perform cross-compilation
Possible mentors: Start with Jason Kridner and Matt Porter, but we'll get some others involved
PRU firmware loader
Allow "firmware" which are really binary PRU applications to be loaded directly on PRU cores and executed using the request_firmware() functionality of the Linux Kernel. This should also be Cape Manager to load PRU cape specific applications.
Ideal workflow:
- Cape detected that uses the PRU
- Setup pinmux
- Find the respective firmware file for PRU core (or both cores) /lib/firmware/cape_A020_pru0.bin
- Load onto PRU and begin execution.
Goal: Push patches to Linux mainline providing support to loading firmware on PRU cores and executing
Existing project: https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/
Hardware skills: Able to read schematics, understand basic digital logic and monitor logic-level digital signals
Software skills: Able to write software in C, create patches to the Linux kernel and perform cross-compilation
Possible mentor(s): Matt Porter
BotSpeak virtual machine for Bonescript and PRU
Goal: Implement a BotSpeak interpreter that off-loads hard real-time tasks from Bonescript onto the PRU and include that in the Bonescript project
Existing projects: http://github.com/beagleboard/am335x_pru_package, http://github.com/jadonk/bonescript, Chris' language definition
Hardware skills: Able to read schematics, understand basic digital logic and monitor logic-level digital signals
Software skills: Able to write software in JavaScript and assembly
Possible mentors: Chris Rogers, Jason Kridner, Tom King
Android-based boot host
Boot your BeagleBone using your Android phone. Combined with the Android Accessory Development Kit code available for BeagleBone and an application to help code/run small applications, this gives you a complete development environment that is easy to distribute to other users.
On a phone/tablet that supports USB host mode (which sadly not all modern devices do), the phone/tablet would provide the early boot loader and kernel code to the Bone using libusb in host mode. After booting the kernel the Bone could switch to USB host mode (the ADK setup) to e.g. load the filesystem and/or communicate with an App on the phone side.
Another way that will work on all certified Android devices is to have the boot loader already on the sdcard and to run the boot loader in USB host mode with the Android device is USB device mode. The bootloader would then get only the kernel and filesystem from the Android device.
Besides using Android to provide a kernel/filesystem to the Bone, one could also use it as an input/display device, relaying touchscreen events to the Bone and displaying the Bone GUI output on the phone/tablet screen.
Goal: Download a Linux image from the web and boot a BeagleBone using it over USB
Existing Project: https://github.com/SpecLad/libusb-android, BeagleBone implementation of Android Accessory Development Toolkit
Hardware Skills: Some knowledge of USB
Software Skills: Java, C and familiarity with Android
Possible mentors: Start with Jason Kridner, but we'll get some others involved
Android under Angstrom
Some people want to play Angry Birds or run other Android apps on their BeagleBoard/BeagleBone. Of course, you could use the Rowboat Android project as-is, but then you'd have to give up all of their typical Linux/X11 applications available in Angstrom. This project would use an Android-enabled kernel and a combination of both Angstrom and Android file systems. The input and display methods required for Android would need to be adjusted to run in on a virtual terminal and chroot/chvt would be used to invoke the various user space windows.
This has essentially been done once as part of Always Innovating's Super-Jumbo demo running Ubuntu, Angstrom, ChromeOS and Android simultaneously. The fundamental challenge is getting it reproducible and integrated into the OpenEmbedded build system for Angstrom and then starting to minimize the wasted file space by sharing libraries. Eventually, even making Android applications run in a window is desired.
Goal: Run Android applications under Angstrom and toggle back-and-forth using CTRL-ALT-Fn key presses.
Existing projects: http://arowboat.org, http://www.angstrom-distribution.org
Hardware skills: Minimal
Software skills: Able to write software in C and Java, experience with X11 and Android
Possible mentors: Hunyue Yau
Library of Arduino-compatible functions for StarterWare
This would be an implementation of Arduino utilizing the BeagleBone Black and the StarterWare O/S independent library for accessing the hardware.
Goal: Utilize the Energia fork of Arduino to push support for BeagleBone and BeagleBone Black
Existing Project: Energia, StarterWare
Hardware Skills: Yes
Software Skills: C/C++
Possible mentors: Jason Kridner (others can be referred if there are interested students)
Previous ideas
Name | IRC nickname | Native language | Other languages | Timezone | Software help | Hardware help | Focus projects |
David Anders | prpplague | English | Klingon | US Central | bootloader, kernel, userspace, debugging | schematic, layout, debugging | Arduino IDE for userspace linux |
Jason Kridner | jkridner | English | - | US Eastern | JavaScript, C, u-boot | wiring, timing diagrams, basic debug | Bonescript development |
Vladimir Pantelic | av500 | German | English, Serbian | CET | Experienced on most areas of Embedded Linux, Multimedia | Schematic Review + Design | Embedded Linux, Linux Multimedia, Android |
Philip Balister | Crofton | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Russ Dill | Russ | English | None | US Pacific Time | Experienced on most areas of Embedded Linux or Systems | Schematic Review + Design | ARM/AM335x Kernel Development |
Matt Porter | mdp | English (U.S. Midwestern Dialect) | None | US Eastern | Embedded Linux Firmware/Kernel and system level design. Designing Linux drivers to make the best use of existing infrastructure. | Schematic Review + Design | ARM/AM335x/OMAP/PRU U-Boot and Kernel/Driver Development |
Koen Kooi | koen | Dutch | English | CET | Experienced on most areas of Embedded Linux, buildsystems | - | - |
Tom King | ka6sox | English | None | US Pacific Time | Experienced on most areas of Embedded Linux or Systems | Schematic Review + Design, Board Layout | ARM/AM335x Kernel Development |
Jayneil Dalal | jayneil | English | Hindi, Gujarati | US Central Time | Basic Embedded Linux, Documentation | - | Application based hw/sw projects on the Beaglebone |
Laine Walker-Avina | Ceriand | English | - | US Pacific | C, Assembly, Buildroot, Reprap | USB protocol & logic analyzers, Various JTAG probes, 3d printer | OpenOCD, bootloaders, Linux kernel, Reprap firmware |
Alan Ott | alan_o | American English (Central Florida Dialect) | American English (Midwestern Dialect) | US Eastern (EDT) | Linux Kernel, Firmware | Breadboard wire-jamming | 802.15.4 Wireless, USB |
Hunyue Yau | ds2 | English | - | US Pacific | Android, C, Linux, scripting | Yes | - |
Tom Rini | Tartarus | English | - | US Eastern | C, u-boot, OpenEmbedded | - | U-Boot or OpenEmbedded development |
Luis Gustavo Lira | lglira | Spanish | English | GMT/UTC -5 | Embedded Linux, C, Android | Design, Debug, Wiring | Projects on the BeagleBone |
Derek Molloy | molloyd | - | - | GMT (London) | C++, Java, Embedded C/C++ | Digital Circuits, Interfacing to Sensors | Beaglebone Applications, Linux Multimedia, Embedded Linux |
Steven Frank Barrett | steveb | English | - | US Mountain | C | microcontrollers, BeagleBone | - |
Frans Meulenbroeks | eFfeM | Dutch | English | CET | Linux (including drivers), U-Boot, C, Documentation; Coding Style, QA | device interfacing (for drivers), review FPGA code | - |
Andrew Bradford | bradfa | English | - | E{S,D}T | C, some u-boot and kernel | PMICs, SD/eMMC, schematic review | Cross Linux from Scratch, Debian, 6LoWPAN |
Pantelis Antoniou | panto | Greek | English | GMT+2 | Linux Kernel, S/W Architecture | - | Embedded Linux architecture fixes |