Still crazy after all these years

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> On Feb 17, 2015, at 8:07 AM, Matthew Carpenter <matt at eisgr.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Monday, February 16, 2015 13:57:44 kwall at kurtwerks.com wrote:
>>> On 2015-02-16 10:55, Tony Alfrey wrote:
>>> That is really weird; the /kid/ gives the /old man/ the pi.  These
>>> things are (partly) advertised as DIY gadgets that are supposed to be
>>> used to teach kids how to program and build embedded controllers for
>>> what-have-you.  Clearly the kid knows what the old man likes.  Yes,
> it
>>> is a time suck.
>> 
>> I thought about playing with an Arduino awhile back as something to
>> attach to a Linux box to control random stuff. Never go past the
>> thinking about part. I'm ready to pull the trigger on that or a
>> raspberry pi now, though.
> 
> Arduino is better if you are interested in lower-level embedded 
> development.  I use it for lots of things where I want to create a 
> firmware thing from the ground up (with a community full of free source 
> code to do all sorts of things and a gui dev environment that is 
> amazingly simple).  Arduino uses an Atmega169 (or 328 for twice the 
> memory) and is akin to the kind of microcontroller found in refrigerators 
> and Smart Thermostats.
> 
> RaspPi is really a tiny Linux system.  It also has a bunch of GPIO pins 
> that you can connect some cool peripherals up to, and do many of the 
> things you can use an Arduino for, but it's real power is in how *many* 
> things it can do using full Linux, USB, NIC, etc...  It's more like a 
> smart phone than a fridge.
> 

I'm using a RaspPi to track airplanes overhead and feed the data to FlightAware.  The thing sits out in my barn and just ghugs away 24/7...,






> 
>>> On 2015-02-16 10:11, Matthew Carpenter wrote:
>>> lol, I have been doing that very thing
>>> 
>>> Actually, I've been using it for vulnerability research on embedded
>>> platforms.  Very handy little suckers.
>> 
>> Good to see you are all still here. I got pretty burned out for a
> while,
>> but I think I'm starting to come up for air again.
> 
> I have to admit to having checked the list once every 6-8months for a 
> while.  So focused on $DAYJOB.  About 8 years ago I chose Kubuntu and 
> have had very few questions about Linux.  I limited my tinkering in the 
> OS to focus on compiled binaries, to see how they worked.  I needed Linux 
> to *just work* and for the most part, it's gone that way.  Far better 
> than my luck with Windows.  Mac has been ok, but I still don't like it 
> much.  It is not optimized for the way I work.  I'm a die-hard KDE/Linux 
> boy.  The way it works is how my brain works.
> 
> Great to hear from you again, friends.
> 
> Matt
> 
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