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

[Charles Shapiro]

Saw this on BoingBoing.  I reckon I'm safe as long as I am taller than Judy.

-- CHS



On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 4:40 PM, arxaaron <arxaaron at gmail.com> wrote:

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>  <http://scanlime.org/2012/11/**hacking-my-vagina/<http://scanlime.org/2012/11/hacking-my-vagina/>
>> >
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> Freaking brilliant project!  Though I have to say I'm more than a
> little surprised by all the prudish and juvenile responses here.
> You'd think this was the Illinois legislature and that you'd
> never heard the medical term vagina before.
>
> I shared the link with my friend Jeri.  I think those of you who
> know who I'm talking about will agree that she will appreciate
> some playful and pleasure minded "outside the box" thinking
> about inside the box hacking.  Opens up a whole new realm of
> adventurous ideas! Way, way cool.
>
> in peace
> aaron
>
>
> On 2012/11/24, at 19:02 , Michael H. Warfield 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/<http://scanlime.org/2012/11/hacking-my-vagina/>
>>
>> Regards,
>> Mike
>> --
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>>
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