{"id":1328,"date":"2014-05-23T16:27:51","date_gmt":"2014-05-23T23:27:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/logicalelegance.com\/journey\/?p=1328"},"modified":"2014-05-23T16:27:51","modified_gmt":"2014-05-23T23:27:51","slug":"are-you-ok-is-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/logicalelegance.com\/journey\/2014\/05\/are-you-ok-is-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Are you ok is up!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The build instructions for my are-you-ok widget is up on <a title=\"Sparkfun tutorial\" href=\"https:\/\/learn.sparkfun.com\/tutorials\/are-you-okay-widget\" target=\"_blank\">SparkFun<\/a>! How neat!<\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t the end for that project. I&#8217;ve been working on getting email on Maxwell (surprisingly not difficult). I&#8217;m going to visit Hugh this weekend to see why his accelerometer is fussy.<\/p>\n<p>In a couple weeks, Elizabeth will be on the podcast again to talk about what needs to happen next, if she&#8217;s happy with the system and what changes to make. There is a rumor that SparkFun will have a kit of parts for me to give away at that time to podcast listeners. (I need a contest! Guess a number? The quotes are too easy thanks to google.)<\/p>\n<p>For someone who seems to be always starting a contract next week (sigh), I have been busy. My EELive talk is going up on element14. I&#8217;m staying about a week ahead though this week I have to do the summary and I&#8217;m not ready. \u00a0Also, on element14, Sophi Kravitz asked me questions about consulting but I kept distracting her with RTOSs and stories of are-you-ok widgets. I&#8217;m happy with her <a title=\"Sophi Interviews me\" href=\"http:\/\/www.element14.com\/community\/people\/sophikravitz\/blog\/2014\/05\/21\/elecia-white-on-the-life-and-times-of-a-consulting-engineer-the-element14-interview#comment-35408\" target=\"_blank\">resulting interview<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I went to the SOLID conference. it was interesting and eclectic. O&#8217;Reilly gave a big stack of my books away while\u00a0I signed them and stress-chatted with people. I was there as press, recording things for the podcast. But Christopher says the noise level is too high, the results are too difficult to listen to. Argh. I&#8217;m not sure what I&#8217;m going to do. I do need to do something to &#8220;pay&#8221; for the press pass (and all the people I talked to).<\/p>\n<p>I am still working with the Beagle Bone Black, though slowly. I updated my MacBook Pro from Win7 32-bit to Win7 64-bit which lets me use more than 2G of RAM. That is a complete re-install so I&#8217;m still finding things I forgot to back up (my bookmarks!). One reason to do this was to run virtual machines so now I have Linux running too. (It is the Oracle 6 one which seems to be Fedora based, I&#8217;m still orienting on how things work.) I&#8217;m trying to build Angstrom, just to update the OS that is on the board (step 1: update with known good image, step 2: update with my built image that should be the same as the known good, step 3: break everything).<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m currently installing Python 2.7 because some precursor to actually building Angstrom needs it. It just gave me an error in the build process of python because it doesn&#8217;t have some library it needs. This is exactly how I remember Linux being.<\/p>\n<p>I hope you have a good, relaxing weekend. I plan to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The build instructions for my are-you-ok widget is up on SparkFun! How neat! This isn&#8217;t the end for that project. I&#8217;ve been working on getting email on Maxwell (surprisingly not difficult). I&#8217;m going to visit Hugh this weekend to see why his accelerometer is fussy. In a couple weeks, Elizabeth will be on the podcast [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[52,13],"class_list":["post-1328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ayok","tag-plans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/logicalelegance.com\/journey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/logicalelegance.com\/journey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/logicalelegance.com\/journey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/logicalelegance.com\/journey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/logicalelegance.com\/journey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1328"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/logicalelegance.com\/journey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1330,"href":"https:\/\/logicalelegance.com\/journey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1328\/revisions\/1330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/logicalelegance.com\/journey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/logicalelegance.com\/journey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/logicalelegance.com\/journey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}