I have started playing with the e-ink dev kit (it uses a Gumstix as the controller). The first problem was talking to the dev board using the usb-serial connection and OSX. I got it working ok last night using my XP virtual machine. This morning I got it up and running using OSX. The key steps:
Install the USB drivers for the serial port. I needed to install the FT232R drivers - which you can find here. You will need to reboot your Mac and then when you plug the USB into your machine you will be treated to a new tty under /dev (in my case /dev/tty.usbserial-A1002bao).
Install ZTerm I couldn’t get an intelligible connection using ’screen’. ZTerm allows you to set up the serial connection correctly.
Listening to: Banquet - Junior Sanchez Mix - Bloc Party
My devkit is literally sitting down the road at the FedEx office waiting for the customs paper work to get sorted. The next trick will be to find time… don’t even have time to blog evenly these days.
I have just finished uploading version 0.2 of my SketchUp plug-in to “Google Code” under GNU GPL v3. The plug-in and source code is available via the download area, and also via SVN.
This plug-in should allow users to export selected faces from SketchUp as Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG). This is of particular use for aiding in the design of laser cut products (especially using Inkscape and Ponoko).
It’s great to see that the VortexDNA guys are finally getting some coverage:
At a home nestled in the heart of Christchurch surburbia five men have mapped the structure of the human consciousness.
It allows predictions to be made about people and who they are, which could have huge ramifications for the insurance and advertising industries, says VortexDNA director Branton Kenton-Dau.
Listening to: EXPOSÉ on the Journal: Chemicals in Food and Jeffrey Toobin - Bill Moyers Journal
Here you go… It’s a gnat’s fart away from Spook Country - you’ve just gotta replace the ubiquitous Google Maps with you’re own massive data overlay system.
