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| 00:39.05 | agaffney | does such a thing exist? |
| 00:39.20 | agaffney | where you can turn on/off individual outlets over serial? |
| 00:39.47 | agaffney | because that would just kick ass |
| 00:40.53 | sunrunner20 | make one :p |
| 00:41.27 | agaffney | easier said than done :) |
| 00:41.33 | sunrunner20 | not really |
| 00:41.37 | agaffney | I'd have no idea where to start |
| 00:41.49 | sunrunner20 | you have any microproccessor experiance? |
| 00:41.55 | agaffney | none whatsoever |
| 00:42.05 | sunrunner20 | learn some c |
| 00:42.26 | sunrunner20 | and get some AVR knowladge |
| 00:42.32 | agaffney | I know C |
| 00:42.38 | sunrunner20 | well |
| 00:42.44 | sunrunner20 | then your better off than i am lol |
| 00:42.59 | agaffney | well, I know enough C to fumble my way around :P |
| 00:43.09 | joe_bleau | I have a network controlled power strip at work. I think it also has a serial console on it. |
| 00:43.18 | agaffney | ooh |
| 00:43.26 | agaffney | any idea how much one of those costs? :P |
| 00:43.38 | joe_bleau | Mine was a freebie. Maybe $50? |
| 00:43.47 | agaffney | that's it? |
| 00:43.48 | joe_bleau | It's APC, powermaster? maybe. |
| 00:43.52 | agaffney | ah |
| 00:43.54 | joe_bleau | The old ones are cheap. |
| 00:43.55 | agaffney | hmm |
| 00:44.08 | joe_bleau | Lemme see if I can find an email with the part number. |
| 00:44.28 | joe_bleau | APC 9211 masterswitch |
| 00:44.31 | agaffney | that'd be helpful |
| 00:44.33 | agaffney | nice |
| 00:44.35 | agaffney | thanks |
| 00:45.03 | agaffney | bah, *nothing* on ebay |
| 00:45.11 | joe_bleau | Yes, there is. |
| 00:45.31 | joe_bleau | 5881356725 ? |
| 00:45.59 | joe_bleau | 9714139874 |
| 00:46.08 | agaffney | hmm, ok, searching for "ap9211" helps :P |
| 00:46.09 | joe_bleau | 9714244983 |
| 00:46.12 | agaffney | I searched "apc 9211" |
| 00:46.15 | agaffney | and got nothing |
| 00:46.18 | joe_bleau | 9714402475 |
| 00:46.34 | joe_bleau | try masterswitch instead...they made a bunch of variants. |
| 00:47.01 | joe_bleau | I think mine is actually a 9210, but I was told it was a 9211. |
| 00:49.26 | agaffney | a bit more than what I can justify paying for it :P |
| 00:49.40 | joe_bleau | Sorry, didn't realize they were bringing that much. |
| 00:50.27 | agaffney | at least I know they exist :) |
| 01:03.21 | joe_bleau | You know what? You could almost do it with the $5 cayman router. It's got some LEDs that could be buffered to drive a relay |
| 01:03.31 | joe_bleau | Serial port connector on the back panel (DE-9). |
| 01:03.34 | joe_bleau | Flash memory. |
| 01:04.04 | joe_bleau | Might not be able to make enough room for the IEC AC jacks, but I'll bet you could fit the relay internally. |
| 01:29.50 | agaffney | that's all over my skill level |
| 01:29.59 | agaffney | I know very little about electronics |
| 02:09.25 | joe_bleau | What would you give/trade for a modified Cayman that switched AC? |
| 02:14.51 | jbevren | cayman gatorbox? heh |
| 02:27.02 | joe_bleau | Well, it sounds like an easy hack, and I'd like for the sucker to be put to a good use. |
| 02:27.16 | jbevren | I was asking if thats what you were referring to :) |
| 02:33.11 | joe_bleau | I guess. One of the $5 cayman routers from that surplus computer place. The 'gator' reference is lost on me, however. |
| 02:33.34 | jbevren | the cayman gatorbox is an older unit used to route between localtalk and ethertalk networks |
| 02:34.06 | joe_bleau | Oh, that's not what I've got then. |
| 02:34.23 | joe_bleau | Point being, I'll check my junkbox and see if it's feasible on this end. |
| 02:34.34 | joe_bleau | But I'm not doing it for nothing. Don't need money, but I'd want something in trade. |
| 02:34.42 | joe_bleau | Nifty toy, book, something. |
| 02:50.47 | jbevren | so youre talking about building a power control unit |
| 02:50.57 | jbevren | thats a pretty cool idea actually |
| 02:51.21 | jbevren | I dont have a use for it, but other hobbyists would find an inexpensive device like that attractive |
| 02:54.03 | joe_bleau | I dunno, agaffney was fishing for ideas, and I had one. |
| 02:54.09 | jbevren | yeah |
| 02:54.19 | jbevren | its a good one imho |
| 02:58.43 | jbevren | 9715672984 |
| 02:58.48 | jbevren | (ebay) |
| 03:00.13 | joe_bleau | Don't you have to use .net or something silly like that to customize the Lantronix products? |
| 03:00.36 | jbevren | dunno for sure.. there's a link on the page to lantronix's page |
| 03:00.44 | jbevren | I just thought the price was cool |
| 03:00.46 | jbevren | :P |
| 03:01.25 | joe_bleau | That may not be one that you can roll your own firmware for. Not sure. |
| 03:01.36 | jbevren | not enough info on it :( |
| 03:01.38 | joe_bleau | I went with the Digi WI-SP last week. |
| 03:01.50 | jbevren | did you get it yet? |
| 03:01.58 | jbevren | Ive been curious about its useability |
| 03:02.14 | joe_bleau | Nope, it was supposed to ship red on thursday. |
| 03:02.22 | jbevren | cool |
| 03:02.31 | joe_bleau | I'll have it tomorrow. The whole job has been a cluster, so I'm not holding my breath. |
| 03:04.05 | jbevren | dunno about rolling your own firmware, but the docs for the lantronix indicates you can configure it via rs232 |
| 03:04.40 | joe_bleau | Notice that some of the Lantronix (and Digi, for that matter) have a dev kit listed. That's the 'roll your own firmware' option. |
| 03:04.51 | jbevren | yeah |
| 03:04.55 | jbevren | hm |
| 03:05.01 | jbevren | the msslite docs talk about an antenna |
| 03:05.04 | jbevren | O.o |
| 03:05.10 | jbevren | shrug |
| 03:05.35 | joe_bleau | I'm not doing anything that exotic. Just a virtual serial port over 802.11b, thank you very kindly. |
| 03:05.42 | jbevren | hehe |
| 03:06.03 | jbevren | I pondered using sparkfun's bluetooth radios |
| 03:06.09 | jbevren | they can communicate point-to-point |
| 03:06.17 | joe_bleau | I did order an extra, so I'll have one to play with when the job is done. |
| 03:06.20 | jbevren | but everyone tells me bt's bad stuff |
| 03:06.45 | joe_bleau | I've used the Digi One IAP before--it's really nice, even if the PoE isn't truely compliant. |
| 03:07.34 | joe_bleau | I dunno. Haven't done any more than hotsyncing a palm with BT, and that worked fine. |
| 03:09.17 | jbevren | http://www.tankchair.com/default.htm |
| 03:09.18 | jbevren | :-O |
| 03:11.57 | jbevren | my only issue is that the chair is hard-mounted |
| 03:12.10 | joe_bleau | The Kamen wheelchair seems more impressive |
| 03:12.11 | jbevren | with all that tech, they could have put a balancing system in it to keep the chair upright on a slope :) |
| 03:12.16 | jbevren | url? |
| 03:12.49 | joe_bleau | Maybe here: http://www.mdtap.org/TT/1999.09/1-art.html |
| 03:15.00 | jbevren | cool stuff |
| 03:15.14 | jbevren | I thought about self-balancing systems over the weekend |
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| 18:14.13 | sorphin | prpplague: any good w/ amphenol connectors? |
| 18:14.17 | sorphin | GPSFan: same question to you |
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| 18:23.12 | prpplague | sorphin: good in what way? |
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| 19:22.26 | sorphin | prpplague: nevermind.. found out they make them normal or w/ degrees of offset to avoid crossconnection.. now trying to find if there's a way to pop out the neoprene insert and change the offsetr |
| 19:26.39 | prpplague | sorphin: the offset is usually milled in |
| 20:05.19 | sorphin | hrm |
| 20:05.33 | sorphin | it's just neoprene rubber turned X number degrees |
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| 22:56.19 | prpplague | joe_bleau: hey joe, whaddya knoe? |
| 22:58.34 | joe_bleau | The usual. Hard monday. I should have gone into sales; I could have done nothing all day *and* had an hour+ for lunch. |
| 22:58.56 | prpplague | hehe |
| 22:59.00 | prpplague | i know the feeling |
| 22:59.37 | joe_bleau | And then at the end of the day "did you get around to doing...". |
| 22:59.41 | prpplague | problem is, i couldn't be in sales, i'd feel too damm nasty at the end of the day, i'm almost OCD now, if i were doing sales, i'd be taking like 15 showers a day |
| 22:59.47 | joe_bleau | I dang near wrung his neck. |
| 22:59.57 | prpplague | hehe |
| 22:59.58 | prpplague | btdt |
| 22:59.59 | joe_bleau | Or drinking a lot. |
| 23:00.08 | prpplague | do that already |
| 23:00.25 | joe_bleau | I did good today. Held my tongue while he did nothing. Didn't say a word. Almost. |
| 23:00.30 | prpplague | joe_bleau: hehe, i'm going to OLS this year |
| 23:00.36 | joe_bleau | OLS? |
| 23:00.44 | prpplague | joe_bleau: Ottawa Linux Syposium |
| 23:00.52 | prpplague | joe_bleau: _the_ conference |
| 23:00.58 | joe_bleau | When? |
| 23:01.10 | prpplague | late july |
| 23:01.17 | prpplague | http://www.linuxsyposium.org |
| 23:01.25 | joe_bleau | When you say "_the_ conference", I think the embedded systems conference. |
| 23:01.36 | prpplague | no, its the linux conference |
| 23:01.43 | joe_bleau | Oh. Hey, the sunset will be really late at night at that latitude. |
| 23:01.45 | prpplague | but has lots of embedded |
| 23:01.49 | prpplague | yea |
| 23:02.05 | prpplague | joe_bleau: so.... |
| 23:02.26 | joe_bleau | so...nothing? |
| 23:02.26 | prpplague | i'm thinking i might have alot of attention with my choice of pda and laptop this year |
| 23:02.49 | joe_bleau | OK, I'll bite. Why is that? |
| 23:02.52 | prpplague | hehe, i'll have my pixter-MM running linux, and |
| 23:03.31 | prpplague | i've bought three different kids laptops to hack a s3c2410 processor inside |
| 23:05.26 | joe_bleau | McNealy steps down as CEO!? |
| 23:05.30 | prpplague | argh, ebay is cause my firefox to crash! |
| 23:05.34 | prpplague | joe_bleau: ?? |
| 23:05.45 | joe_bleau | It's on /. |
| 23:06.22 | prpplague | oh |
| 23:07.28 | joe_bleau | Sun has a special place in my heart; my first internet connection was through a Sun. |
| 23:08.17 | prpplague | hehe |
| 23:19.15 | prpplague | joe_bleau: what do you think of this one? http://cgi.ebay.com/Educational-Laptop-Computer-For-Kids-Kid-Top-Of-TheLine_W0QQitemZ6052816909QQcategoryZ11732QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem |
| 23:19.20 | prpplague | joe_bleau: get some attention? |
| 23:38.34 | joe_bleau | Sorry, I ran off for a minute. Lemme see... |
| 23:39.15 | joe_bleau | I dunno. The sales guy in the office next to me has vision problems; he might need something with a bigger font. |
| 23:39.24 | joe_bleau | Besides, I don't want to spend the time training him on the apps. |
| 23:39.49 | joe_bleau | The letter stuff might be doable, as would addition and subtraction. |
| 23:40.09 | joe_bleau | Taking orders, multiplication, division; that's a stretch. Even with a calc in his other hand. |
| 23:40.38 | joe_bleau | He'd probably enjoy hit the letters, especially if there were sound effects. |