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Every problem is an opportunity waiting to be solved.
Projects
House Robot v2 - This robot is intended to be used in my vacation home in Oklahoma as an inside surveillance bot. He will be allow me to experiment and work towards my ultimate goal of an outside surveillance bot.
DSC Alarm - Information on the custom interface to the DSC alarm.
Power Saving External USB Drive - A need to build a external hard drive for more storage, but I don't want to waste electricity by leaving it on all the time.
Hack for Wii - Run HomeBrew games from a SD card, and backed up games from an USB hard drive or DVD-R
General Gumstix Tidbits - Various bits about the Gumstix and my findings with buildroot, i2c, etc.
i2C - Playing with i2c.
Bus Pirate - How to use the Bus Pirate for AVR programming, i2c, etc.
Future Projects
- Use gumstix/robostix to create an alarm
- Linux based camera interface
- http://www.olimex.com/dev/images/enc28j60-sch.gif
- http://www.saelig.com/ICTCPEB/ICTCPEB001.htm
Chip Makers
- http://www.maxim-ic.com
- http://www.microchip.com
- http://www.onsemi.com
- http://www.national.com
- http://www.ti.com
- http://www.analog.com
- http://www.intersil.com
- http://www.freescale.com
- http://www.cypress.com
Electronic Components
- http://www.digikey.com
- http://www.sparkfun.com
- http://www.mouser.com
- http://www.jameco.com
- http://www.alliedelec.com
- http://www.pololu.com
- http://www.futureelectronics.com
Build Sheets
Siren / Orc - Linksys WRTSL54GS - Interface with DSC alarm
Buffalo LinkStation NAS - Customize backup solution
Hydra - Ranch's Desktop / Debian
Griffin - Ranch's Storage and Remote Dial-Up (backup connectivity solution for DSC alarm)
Golem - Router, NAS, Plex, VMs
Elf - Netbook - Asus eee 901
Muse - Wife's Desktop / Dual Boot Debian & Windows
Dryad - Mom's Desktop / Dual Boot Debian & Windows
Lupin - Development + Gaming
California
Oklahoma
Oklahoma Trip: June 26th, 2009
Reset CAM: http://<IP>/setup/restart.vspx Oklahoma
To get IP when DSL modem wigs out, grab IP from brackets [::ffff:173.186.223.251]
[tucana]$ ftpwho -v standalone FTP daemon [8643], up for 11 days, 23 hrs 25 min 10097 camok [ 0m9s] (n/a) STOR video_20111213091611.jpg KB/s: inf client: ::ffff:173.186.223.25 [::ffff:173.186.223.251] server: ::ffff:173.236.192.96:21 (DreamHost FTP) protocol: ftp location: /cam
Misc
Geany - Decent programming editor that works quite well with a multitude of languages
lxc - Linux Containers - Similar to a chroot
Capturing Packets Remotely (Asterisk / Wireshark / tshark
RJ45 EIA/TIA 568B WIRING STANDARD
Links
Potential Projects
- Control devices through a parallel port and C#
- Nordic FOB, part # WRL-08602 (use for alarm control)
- ATNGW100 - Alarm main board / GPIO
- Bandwidth Limiting for *nix / HTB Linux queuing discipline manual
Stuff
- i2chip / linksys
- Advanced Bash Scripting Guide
- DSC IT-100 Data Interface Module Developer's Guide
- Ethernet Power Controller II
- Web Power Switch II
- Linux Hardware Compatibility List
- Filesystem Hierarchy Standard This standard consists of a set of requirements and guidelines for file and directory placement under UNIX-like operating systems.
Games
Docs
Wants
- Smith & Wesson Model 649: http://www.smith-wesson.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/CompareProductsDisplay?storeId=750001&catalogId=750051&langId=-1&catentryId=764944&catentryId=764945
- Ideas for hardware / customizing (although I'd prefer XBMC over Boxee)-> http://openboxeebox.com/the-boxeebox-cookbook/