[clug] LCA H/W talk

[Paul TBBle Hampson]

On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 05:27:24PM +1100, Robert Edwards wrote:

> Did anyone on this list go to Jon Oxer's H/W tutorial (connecting
> the real world into secondlife) and get a kit of parts? Want to offer
> to do a talk at CLUG sometime about it?

> I have ordered a couple of the Arduino boards from Little Bird
> Electronics in Sydney and hopefully will have them by the next CLUG
> meeting and might be in a position to do a talk about it/them if
> anyone else is interested. These boards are relatively cheap ($40
> incl. GST) and interface over USB (and so also get power over USB).
> They are based on the Atmel AVR series of microcontrollers, with
> full C support via gcc, so great potential for Open Source projects
> as well as little hardware interfacing hacks around the home. The
> boards themselves are open source (h/w design etc.).

I scored a kit, but have forgotten all the cool ideas I'm sure I had by
the end of the session. Granted, it _did_ get me back looking at the
Debian second-life packaging, but once I'd logged in I realise why I'd
lost interest the first time 'round.

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Of course Pacman didn't influence us as kids. If it did,
we'd be running around in darkened rooms, popping pills and
listening to repetitive music.
 -- Kristian Wilson, Nintendo, Inc, 1989

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