Archive for March, 2005
Ugh. Roofnet is horribly horrible. I’m sure it’s great when you’re using the LiveCD, but getting it working properly on a Soekris takes far too much hair pulling. I shouldn’t have to edit Perl modules to trick things into thinking they are gateways - and then I found out that the gateway interface is hard-coded to eth0. Well, there goes that idea.
Had a very brief look at LocustWorld, but they only have CF images, which, although nice, I can’t do much with. Plus it’s geared towards their own MeshBox hardware.
SOWN is my next best bet, and it’s looking promising. Uses OSPF, which is nice and easy to understand and configure. Just need to get Pebble linux onto a Soekris, though seeing as Pebble is specifically designed for that kind of thing, it shouldn’t be a big issue.
March 30th, 2005
Here is my 420 proposal, which I handed in on Thursday. The date is wrong, because I re-LaTeX’d it at home to make a PDF out of it, seeing as I couldn’t get things working on voodoo. Oh well. GPDF doesn’t seem to like the resulting PDF file, but GGV and Evince seem to open it OK.
March 27th, 2005
Yesterday I set up one of the electronic compasses on a camera tripod, hooked up to a couple of multimeters. I rotated the compass and plotted the different voltages to see if we can find some sort of mathematical equation to turn the voltages into compass bearings. Looks like it’s pretty sensitive to other magnetic fields, so I’m going to repeat the experiment further away from the power supply and things like that to see if I can get better curves out of it.
March 24th, 2005
The 2 Dinsmore 1655 analog compass sensors arrived today from Wiltronics. Product Information.
Mounted one on veroboard, aquired a 5 volt power supply from Dean (he doesn’t know yet), and took it all down to Ruakura. Will go in tomorrow and do some tests to see how they work.
March 22nd, 2005
Yes, this is the first post, I hope it works. Lame, huh?
March 22nd, 2005