USB 2 RS232 And Serial Display Hack Part 1; An Introduction

Posted: 7th February 2012 by Mike Trent in Android, Blog, Computer, Electronics, Technology
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This is an introduction to my current project, to design and program a system that will activate a mechanical relays from Android.  More will be posted on this topic as I progress and get the screen shots and pix organized.  I also will keep a post open for updates on tweaks and solutions that I come across for the BeagleBoard xM.

Remembering KISS (keep it simple stupid,)  for this development project I used components from previous projects before diving into the deeper end of the pool of design work.  This project uses a BeagleBoard xM running Gingerbread (Android 2.3.4 Rowboat,) a  FTDI TTL-232R  USB to TTL serial conversion cable, a Seetron BPI-216 2 line serial display, and a simple connector for the FTDI cable to the Seetron display.

Living With Linux – CDPATH

Posted: 18th December 2011 by Mike Trent in Blog, Computer, Linux, Ubuntu
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Here is an great time saver for those that regularly work from the command line.  There are many instances where someone will need to use the command line from a terminal window, building a kernel is a common one.  For this example create this folder tree from your root folder:  mkdir -p  ~/subfolder1/subFolder2/targetFolder/{dir1.dir2,dir3}

Living With Linux – Cloning Devices

Posted: 10th December 2011 by Mike Trent in Android, Computer, Linux, Technology, Ubuntu
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I am using the BeagleBoard development board that can run the Android platform to learn both kernel development and programming the Android platform.  As Ubuntu is the recommended platform for developing Android, I am working in the Ubuntu 11.10 desktop environment on an Acer Aspire set up with both Windows 7 and Ubuntu as a dual boot system.  I only reason that kept Windows 7 is that I have a lot of engineering software for windows, otherwise I would have built a purely Linux/Ubuntu computer

We Are The Economy, An Economy In Crisis.

Posted: 21st November 2011 by Christopher Saikes in Current Affairs, Economy, Politics
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Is the U.S. economy broken?  No, it’s shattered, at least for the millions of displaced workers it is.  Wall Street however, is doing fine thank you.  This untenable situation has given rise to both the TEA movement and OWS, otherwise known as Occupy Wall Street.  As we can all agree, the system is flat out broken.  The media giants, the machine of the corporations are playing fast and foot loose with truth, dishing out hyperbole crafted to divide our society even further.  The media,  the corporate propaganda machine is playing a well financed hand of Machiavellian Politics and we, every day Joe and Jane America will be the losers if we fall to its venomous bite.

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