The First 100 Years Are The Hardest

Linux Support for the Parallax BOE-BOT (Board of Education Robot) I'm leading a robotics class for the Boys and Girls Club of Collin County on Saturdays. Today I got my BOE-BOT working with Linux over USB! (albeit the interface is still limited to the command line). Here's how I did it: 1) Download the Basic Stamp Tools for Linux from SourceForge 2) Extract to a local directory and make/make install (w/ sudo when necessary) 3) Plug your Boe-Bot into the USB port, and use the "dmesg" command to deterime the correct port. My port was ttyUSBO: usb 2-3: FTDI USB Serial Device converter now attached to ttyUSB0 usb 2-3: New USB device found, idVendor=0403, idProduct=6001 usb 2-3: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3 usb 2-3: Product: FT232R USB UART usb 2-3: Manufacturer: FTDI usb 2-3: SerialNumber: A7005rCF 4) Create a symbolic link from your USB port to /dev/bstamp and to the Parallax Tokenizer shared library: bash

Good-bye Samba. Hello CUPS! I've finally resolved a long standing issue printing from windows PC (xp and vista!) to the laser printer attached to my Fedora based linux workstation. So far this solution has been very reliable and doesn't required SAMBA. 1) In Fedora, Define a " Raw Print Queue " and make sure its shared (select the "Generic" drop down when you reach the "Printer model" step of the wizard, then select "Raw Print Queue") 2) In Windows XP (or Vista), "Add Printer", select "Connect to a printer on the Internet", and use the CUPS URL for the raw print queue on your Linux workstation (mine is http://192.168.0.102:631/printers/Raw) 3) Print a test page from Windows. If you have a problem make sure you have the correct Windows/XP/Vista print drivers installed, just as if the printer were connected locally.

2009 Quotes “We choose to do these things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard… because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win.” (JFK) “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent… It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.” (Charles Darwin) “The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.” (Henry Kissinger) "Do, or do not. There is no 'try.’" (Jedi Master Yoda) “Look for the sudden and significant change…” (Judy Spitz)