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>> Walktime Blog #19: No dominant Open Source home automation projects?
If you're just getting into home automation and go searching for Open Source HA projects, you'll discover there aren't any obviously dominant players - more a mix of partly-developed personal projects that aren't very portable. Why is that?
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Links for this ep:
* Allison Randal: www.twitter.com/allisonrandal
* Desktop Home Hacks: www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8asl5SsGy4
* Mister House: misterhouse.sourceforge.net
* Open Remote: www.openremote.org
* SuperHouseTV: www.superhouse.tv
>> Walktime Blog #18: Interview with Marco Ostini at LCA2012
Despite Australia's strong involvement in the early history of space exploration, we're now lagging way behind many far smaller nations in our commitment to the industry. At linux.conf.au 2009 in Hobart, Marco Ostini gathered together a group of like-minded people to create Lunar Numbat: a project to develop Open Source space technology as part of the White Label Space team competing for the Google Lunar X-Prize. At linux.conf.au 2012 in Ballarat I managed to pin him down long enough to film this interview.
View or comment directly on YouTube: youtu.be/6PQ6mIEmKfc
Links for this ep:
* Marco Ostini: www.twitter.com/marcoostini
* Lunar Numbat: www.lunarnumbat.org
* White Label Space: www.whitelabelspace.com
* Google Lunar X-Prize: www.googlelunarxprize.com
>> Walktime Blog #17: Interview with Matt Evans at LCA2012
At linux.conf.au 2012 I had the good fortune of meeting up with old friends and also making new ones, including the amazingly talented Matt Evans. Matt did a great talk called "Hack Everything: Re-Purposing Everyday Devices", so I caught up with him briefly afterwards to talk to him about it.
View or comment directly on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIQl0u-YZ5s
>> Walktime Blog #16: Arduino Miniconf 2012
A quick walk-around of the hardware assembly tutorial at the 3rd Arduino Miniconf, which took place on January 16, 2012 as part of linux.conf.au.
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>> Walktime Blog #15: Arduino light switches
As part of my @SuperHouseTV home reno the entire house has been rewired, including replacing all the light switches with Freetronics Arduino-compatible control surfaces running on the LAN using Power-over-Ethernet. To save time assembling all the switches I designed a custom PCB for the control surface.
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>> Walktime Blog #14: Maker Faire Melbourne, Arduino Miniconf
Maker Faire is coming to Melbourne! Followed 2 days later by the Arduino Miniconf at linux.conf.au 2012 in Ballarat, it'll be a great time to be in Victoria if you're into Open Hardware.
Comment or view directly on YouTube: http://youtu.be/aiZCufdgc9c
Links for this ep:
- Mini Maker Faire Melbourne: www.makerfairemelbourne.org
- Arduino Miniconf: www.arduinominiconf.org
>> Walktime Blog #13: Cool tools - SSH
Another cool tool that can help break you free of any particular computer is SSH. It's for more than just getting a shell on a remote machine though: it can also do X session forwarding, and local and remote port forwarding.
Note: Before anyone accuses me of doing anything nasty to Google's corporate network, I didn't do anything I shouldn't and I expect that Google's network is as tight as tight can be. My comments about networks with crispy shells and soft centers weren't meant to imply that's what Google's are like, but after listening to the video it sounded like it may have come across that way. Sorry!
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>> Walktime Blog #12: Cool tools - Git, Dropbox, Google Docs
I hate the idea that everything I work on is trapped inside a specific computer, and that if I don't have that computer with me I can't do anything - or worse still, if it's stolen or explodes I'm in big trouble. I've (mostly) managed to make myself non-computer-specific using a combination of Git, Dropbox, and Google Docs.
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