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Fedora ARM Meeting 2012 September 18


CDOT Fedora ARM Team Meeting 2012-09-18

Coming Events

  • Summer research presentations - Thursday (Sep 20)
  • MPs visiting Markham - Oct 10
  • FSOSS Oct 25/26 - Including Raspi Showcase

Summer Research Presentations - Thursday

  • What shows well?
    • RPFR17 including firstboot and splash
  • Max

MPs

  • High cool factor
  • Recommend multiple screens

Pre-FSOSS

  • 40" in window
  • Slideshow for FSOSS or cooler demo if available

FSOSS

  • Need some cool demos

Cool Stuff with the Pi

Ideas:

  • Robot creates maps
  • Video show of robot running around
  • Do a "street view" of a building
  • Wayfaring via robot
  • Chessboard that senses moves
  • Media demo (game? video?)
    • Simpler form: looped video playback
  • Quake III LAN party
  • Room sensor
  • Door prize system based on webcam shots

Tech that's available:

  • 4.3" screen
  • RFID
  • rangefinding
  • light/pressure/temp/humidity/stretch
  • GPS
  • lights

Timeframes

  • RPFR17 Final (armv5tel)
    • Before FSOSS - Ideally before OWF (Oct 17)
    • Kernel update
    • Scratch
    • Need to test GPIO libraries (wiringPi etc)
  • Pidora (armv6hl rebuild)
    • Start building on Koji by Sep 28
      • Koji, Koji-shadow, Builders, Toolchain
    • Release with F18 (Nov/Dec)

Tasks

  • TRAC
    • Test setup for Thursday
    • LDAP setup for next Thursday