Comments for Antitronics http://www.antitronics.com Hack, Make, Teach Fri, 16 Jul 2010 17:35:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Comment on Where did we go? by Emily Bodnar http://www.antitronics.com/?p=200&cpage=1#comment-197 Emily Bodnar Fri, 16 Jul 2010 17:35:52 +0000 http://www.antitronics.com/?p=200#comment-197 I sure miss you guys, but the trailer thing sounds pretty cool! Hope you and Susan are doing well. -emily I sure miss you guys, but the trailer thing sounds pretty cool! Hope you and Susan are doing well.

-emily

]]> Comment on Radio and Rocketry and Open Source. Awesome. by Avril http://www.antitronics.com/?p=187&cpage=1#comment-175 Avril Thu, 24 Jun 2010 12:47:26 +0000 http://www.antitronics.com/?p=187#comment-175 <i>I chatted with Bdale and Keith a bit about other uses like balloon launch, and they have been very helpful to me in my initial poking around with the TeleDongle. They’ve set up a mailing list, and that’s probably the best way to make contact to discuss things like this:</i> +1 I chatted with Bdale and Keith a bit about other uses like balloon launch, and they have been very helpful to me in my initial poking around with the TeleDongle. They’ve set up a mailing list, and that’s probably the best way to make contact to discuss things like this:
+1

]]> Comment on by sconklin http://www.antitronics.com/?p=78&cpage=1#comment-152 sconklin Wed, 09 Jun 2010 14:53:00 +0000 http://www.antitronics.com/?p=78#comment-152 Wow. One comment out of 70 that looks like it's probably not spam. I say probably because of a dubious URL that was supplied with it, which I removed. In any case, this is a really good question and I didn't know the answer, so I asked someone I know who is familiar with Ubuntu about how Ubuntu handles this. His response was: <blockquote>It depends what she means by reading/writing. If I understand it correctly: Reading: regardless of the language of the OS, she can read in any language. If what's meant here is changing the language of the OS (i.e. the language in which the applications are shown), that cannot be done on the fly. Once the UI language is changed, one needs to log out and log back in. (BTW, if you'd like to test this to see the effect, you can try to switch between American English and British English at System > Administration > Language Support) Writing: users with complex writing scripts such as Japanese use what we call an Input Method Engine (IME or IM). This allows them to input complex characters which are otherwise not available on a keyboard. Ubuntu uses ibus as the IME and it fully supports Japanese. Whenever the user wants to switch between writing Latin characters as in English or Japanese characters, this can easily be done by pressing a simple key combination. I would also direct her to the Japanese LoCo to get more help at: http://www.ubuntu-jp.org/ https://wiki.ubuntulinux.jp/JapaneseTeamMember </blockquote> I hope this helps. Wow. One comment out of 70 that looks like it’s probably not spam. I say probably because of a dubious URL that was supplied with it, which I removed. In any case, this is a really good question and I didn’t know the answer, so I asked someone I know who is familiar with Ubuntu about how Ubuntu handles this. His response was:

It depends what she means by reading/writing. If I understand it
correctly:

Reading: regardless of the language of the OS, she can read in any
language. If what’s meant here is changing the language of the OS (i.e.
the language in which the applications are shown), that cannot be done
on the fly. Once the UI language is changed, one needs to log out and
log back in.

(BTW, if you’d like to test this to see the effect, you can try to
switch between American English and British English at System >
Administration > Language Support)

Writing: users with complex writing scripts such as Japanese use what we
call an Input Method Engine (IME or IM). This allows them to input
complex characters which are otherwise not available on a keyboard.
Ubuntu uses ibus as the IME and it fully supports Japanese. Whenever the
user wants to switch between writing Latin characters as in English or
Japanese characters, this can easily be done by pressing a simple key
combination.

I would also direct her to the Japanese LoCo to get more help at:

http://www.ubuntu-jp.org/
https://wiki.ubuntulinux.jp/JapaneseTeamMember

I hope this helps.

]]> Comment on by Emily http://www.antitronics.com/?p=78&cpage=1#comment-151 Emily Tue, 08 Jun 2010 23:35:44 +0000 http://www.antitronics.com/?p=78#comment-151 Hi, I'm very interested in Linux but Im a Super Newbie and I'm having trouble deciding on the right distribution for me (Havent you heard this a million times?) anyway here is my problem, I need a distribution that can switch between reading and writing in English and Japanese (Japanese Language Support) with out restarting the operating system. Hi, I’m very interested in Linux but Im a Super Newbie and I’m having trouble deciding on the right distribution for me (Havent you heard this a million times?) anyway here is my problem, I need a distribution that can switch between reading and writing in English and Japanese (Japanese Language Support) with out restarting the operating system.

]]> Comment on Radio and Rocketry and Open Source. Awesome. by sconklin http://www.antitronics.com/?p=187&cpage=1#comment-115 sconklin Mon, 26 Apr 2010 14:30:42 +0000 http://www.antitronics.com/?p=187#comment-115 I chatted with Bdale and Keith a bit about other uses like balloon launch, and they have been very helpful to me in my initial poking around with the TeleDongle. They've set up a mailing list, and that's probably the best way to make contact to discuss things like this: http://lists.gag.com/mailman/listinfo/altusmetrum I chatted with Bdale and Keith a bit about other uses like balloon launch, and they have been very helpful to me in my initial poking around with the TeleDongle. They’ve set up a mailing list, and that’s probably the best way to make contact to discuss things like this:

http://lists.gag.com/mailman/listinfo/altusmetrum

]]> Comment on Radio and Rocketry and Open Source. Awesome. by sconklin http://www.antitronics.com/?p=187&cpage=1#comment-114 sconklin Thu, 22 Apr 2010 17:20:55 +0000 http://www.antitronics.com/?p=187#comment-114 $350 for the telemetry unit. The store is open now: http://auric.gag.com/ and Bdale said that he's hoping to have the Telemetrum units for sale soon. Here's his blog post about it: http://www.gag.com/bdale/blog/ It would be ideal for balloon launches. It also has an uplink capability that can turn on two FET switches. These are used for firing ejection charges, etc in rockets, but they could be used for anything. You may need to hack the code to use them that way, Bdale explained to me that the on-board processor tracks different phases of flight using the sensors, so you can't (for example) fire the ejection charge during boost. If you have your own sensor package, the telemetrum boards might give you a cheap, easy radio link. $350 for the telemetry unit. The store is open now: http://auric.gag.com/ and Bdale said that he’s hoping to have the Telemetrum units for sale soon.
Here’s his blog post about it: http://www.gag.com/bdale/blog/

It would be ideal for balloon launches. It also has an uplink capability that can turn on two FET switches. These are used for firing ejection charges, etc in rockets, but they could be used for anything.

You may need to hack the code to use them that way, Bdale explained to me that the on-board processor tracks different phases of flight using the sensors, so you can’t (for example) fire the ejection charge during boost.

If you have your own sensor package, the telemetrum boards might give you a cheap, easy radio link.

]]> Comment on Radio and Rocketry and Open Source. Awesome. by Jeff Cotten http://www.antitronics.com/?p=187&cpage=1#comment-113 Jeff Cotten Thu, 22 Apr 2010 14:59:31 +0000 http://www.antitronics.com/?p=187#comment-113 hey, we're getting ready for a high altitude balloon launch over at Makers Local. This sounds like it would be cool for our tracking system solution! Do you know how much these cost? Part of the high altitude balloon competition is that we have to spend under a certain amount, I'm hoping that these are within budget! hey, we’re getting ready for a high altitude balloon launch over at Makers Local. This sounds like it would be cool for our tracking system solution!

Do you know how much these cost?

Part of the high altitude balloon competition is that we have to spend under a certain amount, I’m hoping that these are within budget!

]]> Comment on The Makerbot Travels by Adam Waddell http://www.antitronics.com/?p=107&cpage=1#comment-53 Adam Waddell Wed, 25 Nov 2009 09:47:12 +0000 http://www.antitronics.com/?p=107#comment-53 Hi Steve, thank YOU for the shout out! Your friendly online LP guru, Adam Hi Steve, thank YOU for the shout out!

Your friendly online LP guru,
Adam

]]> Comment on The Makerbot Travels by Colin King http://www.antitronics.com/?p=107&cpage=1#comment-50 Colin King Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:49:41 +0000 http://www.antitronics.com/?p=107#comment-50 Steve, glad to see the makerbot got to UDS with you safely. Have you been able to demo it yet? Steve, glad to see the makerbot got to UDS with you safely. Have you been able to demo it yet?

]]> Comment on Power Monitoring Almost in Place by Back to the power monitoring http://www.antitronics.com/?p=26&cpage=1#comment-43 Back to the power monitoring Wed, 28 Oct 2009 04:38:28 +0000 http://www.antitronics.com/?p=26#comment-43 [...] back in July I thought I was almost done with the power monitoring [...] [...] back in July I thought I was almost done with the power monitoring [...]

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