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Holiday season update

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Posted by Justin on December 23, 2010 – 4:14 am
Filed under General

Sorry every one been busy with Holiday stuff, updates will continue soon after Christmas(Xmas)

NXP challenge is coming along nicely, I have most of the hardware finished, but I Have to wait for a few connectors and some odds and ends.

Also coming is a review of some cool trinkets and some more msp430 projects are on there way. Also look for updates starting in JAN for my STM32 challenge updates and entries :)

Thanks every one for your support, comments and opinions and suggestions.

Thanks

-Justin

upcomming small projects

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Posted by Justin on December 1, 2010 – 6:15 am
Filed under electronics, Hardware
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Upcoming project and circuit

  • Motor Driver for Helicopter
  • Servo power supply for helicopter
  • interface board to hook up mbed, gyro and accelerometer

Im hoping to get most of these done in the next week and a half

pics of my work in progress to come :)

edit Pics :)

PCLinux: a great alternitive to Ubuntu

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Posted by Justin on December 1, 2010 – 1:43 am
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Recently i have been having issues with my Ubuntu install, well no really recently but ever since i upgraded to 9.10 and then to 10.04 and then to 10.10,  I have had nothing but trouble with the system. So off i went to look for a new Distro, Gentoo, openSuse, PClinux Mint linux, Debian, and a few other smaller ones. But i had to narrow it down a little further. I wanted a Gnome interface (personal preference), a Debian based distro was preferable and we cant forget good old bash lol. First one i tried was PCLinux  with the Gnome desktop. My first thoughts…….:) gnome loads and my keyboard and mouse works and so does the sound….what more could i ask for lol.

Some key things that i like

  • Easy configuration manager
  • Supports my hardware right from the start
  • live CD works great
  • easy network setup
  • great list of repositories

Cons or things i didnt like

  • Duel monitor support ? it works but no settings changes and the screen blanks every 5 mins or so
  • Boot up is a little long
  • themes, are just OK lol
  • no other real complaints —Yet……

as of right now im sticking to this distro, i will be testing some of the others in a few weeks.

http://www.pclinuxos.com/