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RubyForge: YM4R: Project Info

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 07:39:01 -0700

YM4R (Yellow Maps for Ruby) has a Rails plugin for Google Maps (YM4R/GM), a plugin for Mapstraction (YM4R/Mapstraction), a gem with ruby helpers for geocoding and the Yahoo! Maps Building Block APIs and tools to generate tiles for custom Google Maps.

Linux Robot, more hardware ideas

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 03:21:21 -0700

http://www.adamsinfo.com/linux-robot-more-hardware-ideas/

Follow on from: http://www.adamsinfo.com/linux-robot-watch-this-space/

I’ve been giving the layout and hardware of the device some thought. Hardware should be split up as follows:

Main board At minimum, CPU, IO pin out, RAM, CF/SD, and USB controller. Wifi and/or ethernet would be nice. It will need to be linux friendly of course.

Custom IO board Connect to Main board via 16 bit bus. The custom IO board will have some logic gate chips and maybe some memory. It will then connect child boards for LEDs, the ultrasonic sensors, switches and relays. The relays will then be connected to the wheels. I’ll consider adding other sensors for temperature, light, etc.

[ FILL IN INFO: I’m currently struggling to find a set of eyes for the device. It could contain some kind of laser scanner underneath which it can scan over the ground as it moves, trying to find something better and define a purpose for the eyes]

Each of the 4 wheels need to be at least 3 speed but 4 or 5 would be better.

[ FILL IN INFO: I need research and some good ideas on protocol and flow for the main board and custom IO board to communicate]

The wheels would ideally be ‘balls’ such as from mice. Need to research if this is practical/doable. For the battery, ideally it would be at least 6v and preferably 12 for the motors however this needs to be USB friendly and as such I’m considering a 4.2-4.7v Li-ION battery that will last a good few hours at full 350mA draw. Minimum might be around 180mA from initial research, but I may need more.

If I do need more which I’m considering a reasonable possibility, I might be able to step up 5v/60mA from the USB port to 12v/25mA and trickle charge an 11.2v battery. I don’t like the idea much though and the heavier the battery, the more power the device will end up using having to haul it around all day.

The radio at first was going to be an FM based setup. The USB base would contain a FM oscillator transmitter and the device would contain a receiver. It would use this receiver to locate the base station. I’m thinking that this is going to become a limitation and so I’m open to better ways of the devices maintaining simple communication.

The system will present all hardware inputs and outputs as available to software, including battery level.

All settings and fine tunes will be available on the device as variable resistors and can be hand tweaked. Ideally and in future, this would be software[automatic] controlled.

Short of a pair of wings or some kind of weapon, I think that’s about all the hardware we’ll need. I’m going to make sure that the IO card is mapped out in a way that allows for even more expansion. I will want to add an FM transmitter/receiver, some kind of sound device, possibly an LCD and definitely a camera and mic.

Thanks to Reader Phil, although I was looking at the beagleboard originally I’m thinking that this: Proposed Board

Proposed Board

http://foxlx.acmesystems.it/?id=4

I’m sure that there’s more hardware out there but I’m having a hard time tracking it down.

The board isn’t available for order until the 13th October [08] so unless I can find anything more suitable, I’ll plan on working with this one.

At this point if anyone is interested in contribute any expertise or assistance, any extra help would be appreciated!

If anyone has any thoughts on this to now, please share in the forums

I’m going to keep researching boards but plan on using this one for the moment. I then need to start looking at the IO board and components.

B&T's Tips & Scripts

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 20:57:35 -0700

iClarified - iPhone - How to Create Custom Ringtones for an iPhone

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 09:49:02 -0700

Manual:Using custom namespaces - MediaWiki

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 01:48:33 -0700

Custom Eclipse Builder

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 09:47:13 -0700

EPP/Packaging Site - Eclipsepedia

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 09:47:13 -0700

SummerBoard for iPhone

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 14:10:03 -0700

iPhone Theme maker

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 14:10:03 -0700

Chapter 2. Entity Beans

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 07:58:23 -0700

@Embedded @AttributeOverrides( { @AttributeOverride(name="iso2", column = @Column(name="bornIso2") ), @AttributeOverride(name="name", column = @Column(name="bornCountryName") ) } )

Adam’s Custom Kernel

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 03:17:15 -0700

http://www.adamsinfo.com/adams-custom-kernel/

I haven’t been doing much custom kernel building lately. I find that the only kernels I change are those on my VM host machines, and/or using apt-get for a general upgrade.

Nevertheless, here’s how I go about building my custom kernels for VM host machines running debian etch, using 2.6.18 of course:

apt-get install linux-source-2.6.18

[ You can also grab one from: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ ]

Make sure you install other relevant tools that you might not have: apt-get install gcc libncurses5-dev libc6-dev automake binutils

cd /usr/src/ tar -xjf linux-2.6.18.tar.bz2 ln -s /usr/src/linux-2.6.18 /usr/src/linux make clean make menuconfig

Scroll to the bottom and select the option to load a configuration. Select /boot/config-2.6.18.

I then set my Processor family to suit, usually support RAM size up to 64G, and change the tick speed from 250MHz to 1000MHz.

Save and exit, now run:

make dep make make modules make install make modules_install mkinitramfs -o /boot/initrd.img-2.6.18 2.6.18

Lastly edit your /boot/grub/menu.lst, and add [where /dev/sda1 is your root device]:

title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.18 root (hd0,0) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18 root=/dev/sda1 ro initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.18 savedefault

Make sure that you leave your existing kernel entries in place so that you can boot them if your upgrade fails.

Before reboot, check the following: - root=/dev/sda1 is a correct and valid root device for your setup. - All files mentioned in the addition to menu.lst exist and are named correctly - You have backups of your current kernels and modules, and are able to boot them if necessary

reboot

git-sh

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 12:31:49 -0700

A customized bash environment suitable for git work

Custom Toolbar Buttons Maker

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 09:29:10 -0700

Joomla! • View topic - Different Content Types (available solutions)

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 03:14:12 -0700

Why Joomla ? - Custom content types - thanks Google Summer of Code!

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 03:14:12 -0700

A List Apart: Articles: Validating a Custom DTD

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 08:20:51 -0700

Create a Custom Toolbar | Conduit

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 09:15:33 -0700

custom rap widgets

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 06:23:15 -0700

Creating custom widgets in RAP is a hot topic and we see the need to cover this in an article which you are just reading here.

Build Your Own iPhone Search Engine in 5 minutes

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 05:19:58 -0700

Building a customized iPhone/ iPod Touch search engine has never been so easy. BuildaSearch now allows anyone to build a custom search engine or site search for the iPhone in 5 minutes or less.

Solidsystem - CP and JF2 for J!15 tutorial

Sun, 28 Sep 2008 11:11:21 -0700

translate tags at will - if you have

SharePoint 2007 Features – Creating Site Columns and Content types

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 07:26:15 -0700

Tip on looking up GUID's of existing fields & content types in MOSS

Schema.xml

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 02:17:58 -0700

Reference of the elements of a schema.xml that describes a list in MOSS

GeneralFAQ < Main < TWiki

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 13:13:33 -0700

Extend and Customize OpenCMS through its Java API

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 22:54:25 -0700

Packt Publishing, the publisher of computer related books, announced the release of its new book OpenCMS 7 Development.

OpenCms is a professional-level open-source Website Content Management System, based on Java and XML. Many companies or organizations have requirements that go beyond what is available in the standard OpenCms application. Thankfully, OpenCms can be used by Java developers to create sophisticated add-ons and customizations that extend the power of OpenCms in virtually unlimited directions.

Targeting version 7 of OpenCms, this book is for Java developers interested in extending and further customizing OpenCms through its Java API.

Starting by showing how to set up a development environment for OpenCms work, the book moves you through various tasks of increasing complexity. Some of the common tasks covered are building OpenCms, XML asset type development, templating, module development, user and role setup, and search integration. In addition to these common tasks some more advanced topics are covered such as self-registering users, RSS support, developing custom widgets and extending the administrative interface. All the topics include examples and are presented while building a sample blog site.

The book is for Java developers with a basic knowledge of the operations of OpenCms. No previous experience of developing OpenCms is expected.

More information about the book can be found at: “Packt’s OpenCms7 Bookpage ” http://www.packtpub.com/opencms-7-development/book

[Trac] Custom status values.

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 03:17:33 -0700

flash development, actionscript coders, flash actionscripter, freelance actionscripter, php, .NET, flash developers

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 00:10:20 -0700

N'Liven Technologies is a Software & Web Development Company, providing a wide spectrum of services starting from database applications to embedded systems.

Bathroom remodel with minumum cost-Phone:(619) 206-7590

Tue, 23 Sep 2008 22:03:14 -0700

The bathroom is one of the rooms that can be a great asset to redesign and you can be very imaginative in the process.The bathroom remodel cost of the project can be reduced by using fixtures made of composite materials or alternatives.

Custom Access for Groups in Joomla! | Joomla Hacks

Tue, 23 Sep 2008 10:09:56 -0700

The RunUO Script Library

Tue, 23 Sep 2008 03:09:55 -0700

We got all scripts you need for your custom freeshard ran by the Ultima Online emulator RunUO!

Customizing JAXB Bindings

Tue, 23 Sep 2008 01:23:33 -0700