South West Makers

I'm still in to bring along a few things to show and tell. My son and his mates are in FLL this year, so this will be interesting all 'round

Well it would seem that my pi that hasn't been updated for ages it not susceptible to "ShellShock" vun: pi@backyardpiradio ~ $ uptime 20:43:36 up 375 days, 2:03, 1 user, load average: 0.41, 0.26, 0.24 pi@backyardpiradio ~ $ env X="() { :;} ; echo busted" /bin/sh -c "echo stu...

Nice! http://bjblaster.homedns.org/projects/renewable/hand_power/fax_light/large_slides/IMAG1143.jpg I've been busy modifying a couple of FAXLights I made for the kids to give them a bit more "Light per Wind" with some 3D printed gears. These are 2.15:1 which just fit. I haven't got a pic ...

I think the best utility to use is wicd-curses for wifi. It supports graceful eth0 (wired) handover and you can setup multiple Access Points with ease. If you don't have it do the 'ol $ sudo apt-get install wicd-curses to install it. Next make sure your wifi adapter has been detected using $ dmesg (...

I'm happy to contribute if we can get in!

I think the Pi platform just needs a standard. The Compute seems to fit it. Crack out a $5 break out board and you have the best of both worlds.

Still that is not bad ! Mine runs off my 12V network, which in theory shouldn't loose power until the battery bank or the sun dies... Batteries are second hand, dated 2003 and 11 years later it's still pretty good. If only I had a pi back then What are you using for your weather station? I'm using p...

Hi Guys, I was curious about the longest uptime on a pi. I have one running my "Backyard Radio" home media server and it's been up for: http://bjblaster.homedns.org/projects/electronics/vintage_radio/backyard_radio/pi/uptime.png Can you beat that? http://bjblaster.homedns.org/projects/elec...

I was just packing the car, and stopped to check my emails~!>!>!!

Nooooo!

Oh well I can finish my latest kid friendly project. Are you guys doing Robofair again this year?

Just to clarify, Does it start at 9 or 10?

The group email says 09:00 but this link says 10:00.

http://www.scienceweek.net.au/curtin-so ... ectacular/

I have had a rearrangement of plans, so I'm going to drive down on the morning.

Nice one!

That looks great

Sweet!

Has anyone made up some sort of lanyard 3D printed thing so we can be official SW makers?

So what's the gernal rundown for the Science Spectacular?
Who is bringing what?
I'm wondering, so I can get an idea of what to bring down other than my 3D printer and Picade?

What hands on kiddie things do you have? I'm thinking of making something during the week if I get a chance.

Well it seems the more water you have, the better off you will be: Here is my original system overview before I added a 500L subtank and an IBC for the trout. These are all joined to give a total of 2500L. Tee'd in the IBC to my existing rig. This is my 6 monthly tank - used for trout in winter and ...

What are you using for drawing your schematic? Looks almost KiCAD, but cant really tell it from Eagle?

Cheers

Bj

Good work, it's sad you can't even own a NAS without getting pwned these days... http://t.co/tHENLuep6W

I see thee has been spammed by a bot. Best change the settings so only an admin can register a new user...

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My whole logger system runs on PICAXEs I liked the built in RS232 that was very handy for me back then, now I'm reinventing the wheel so I can have everything on ethernet instead. They are a great stepping stone to micros and FPGAs in general

I don't know if you guys have seen this neat hack or not, but it sure is great for those who use Arduinos and aren't proficient in low level hex or assembler/machine code. Instead of using PIC508M's for small stuff I've (maybe become lazy) really like using the arduino's C style IDE so this was a ne...

I have this issue where I like to use open source software first, so I can really see what's going on. If I can't get it to work, then I will go for a closed source "point and click" thing. I do like the ability to hack it up a bit. Here is a good example of a useful hack to me: http://bjb...