Durring my time here at the ISL I have worked on various projecsts. I try to keep decent logs of my progress on each project, and I hope you can benifit by reading them. Hopefully you can avoid some of the mistakes I have made and make some new ones of your own. Don't forget to keep logs so that future generations can learn from both our wisdoms.
Projects:
Below you will find breif descriptions of the projects I have or are currently working on. If you would like to track my progress follow the link to my worklog. Note: These are my worklogs that I try to keep as up to date a as possible. Therefore please excuse any misspellings and or grammer errors, as well as typos.
The Color Sensor Workshop
The color sensor workshop was an attempt to create a workshop that could be taught in the context of the robotics class. It was intended to give students experiece building a sensor from scrach for their Boe-Bots.
Worklog :
Gumstix Project
This project is a sub-project of the Hummer Project. We are adding a Gumstix computer to the Hallway Hummer to give it more onboard computing power, as well as allowing it to connect to our wireless network.
Worklog :
Subversion Server: Turtle
I have setup a subversion server for the ISL. Its host name is turtle.ecst.csuchico.edu. The idea is that members of the ISL can login to turle and check their projects into a subversion repository, for version control. Right now I have a major stumbeling block, that is I'm having problems allowing only the members of the isl group login to turtle. The ecst system currently uses nis to serve account info. I have setup nis (ypbind) on turtle and that works fine. The problem comes when I try to modify the /etc/passwd file. According to all the documentation I can find, adding the line '+@isl' should allow the isl group to login to turtle. However I cannot get it to work. Adding the line '+' adds all the nis users on the nis server, but I don't want just anyone with an ecst.account to be able to login, it is very frustrating. Luckely our Sys-Admin (Elbert) tells me that we will be upgrading to a mySQl database for authentication this summer. Hopefully when that happens I can work with him to get turtle and all our other linux boxes setup with the new mySQL authentication scheme.