[ale] Raspberry Pi and ... Of all the projects for a microcontroller... OMG....

[Ron Frazier (ALE)]

Probably shouldn't have even clicked the link.  I read the title and last couple of paragraphs and concluded all the info in between is stuff I just don't need to know about.  I'll leave this tech to you guys to sort out.

Ron


"Michael H. Warfield" <mhw at WittsEnd.com> wrote:

>Ok....
>
>There is no way I can post this without getting into a whole lotta
>trouble and yet there is no way I can NOT post this...  I'm sitting
>here
>laughing so hard I was in tears...  As old Red Skelton use to quip in
>his "bad little boy" skits "if I do dis, I get a whipping...  Yeah, I
>do
>dis..."
>
>Sooo...  We've been having this discussion over what we can do with the
>Raspberry Pi's and, by extension, the Ardunios (the Alamode is almost
>required for some sensors and the Ardunio Duo looks really attractive).
>
>I got my two RPs in on Wednesday right on schedule from Newark.  Both
>are running right now with Fedora (one with the Alamode on its bus).  I
>tried Raspian but was not real thrilled.  Only downside to Fedora 17 is
>that it doesn't fully support the 512M ram on the newer boards but I
>expect this to get fixed sooner or later.  At this point, well over
>half
>of my "no additional hardware required" project list is well within
>striking distance.  I've already had USB to serial connectors plugged
>in
>and could use these for remote USB console devices, easily.  Things for
>"syslog servers", "cron ssh little black boxes", "log harvestors", and
>"nagios servers" are trivial from where I have them already.  I'm
>getting ready to order several more for deployment into production
>environments.
>
>I'm already assembling the high voltage components for my big project
>(the power line disturbance analyzer) and I've got parts coming in for
>my sprinkler controller.  The IP KVM will have to wait...
>
>So, I'm on track...  Come middle of next year, if we want to have a
>meeting devote to Raspberry Pi and Ardunio projects, I will be there,
>no
>question, even if the line disturbance analyzer is not ready.
>
>But...  Then I ran into this.  I just don't know what to say.  I would
>have never thought of it, but...  Any further commentary from me will
>only dig me deeper...  I leave it to you all...  This is not for me to
>comment on...
>
>/me picks jaw up off floor and finds a nice quite place to hide in
>while
>waiting for the flash of light and mushroom cloud on the horizon...
>
>http://scanlime.org/2012/11/hacking-my-vagina/
>
>Regards,
>Mike


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