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Desire
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I'm sure she will love the playset, once the weather permits!
Though one thing Alaska has taught me is that there is nothing wrong with kids playing outside or at the playground when it is raining, that is why they make rain gear. ;D (Though I would not suggest having a kid use a wet slide with rain gear on!  )
Also, playgrounds when it is 30 degrees out or in the snow are just as much fun as when it is 70.
I also have realized that I can never, ever take my son to most states during the summer months or he will melt into a puddle goo.
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Atrophy Annie
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Oh man, scratch that. I look forward to using the swingset!
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Yinello
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| Posted: Tue May 28, 2013 9:21 am Post subject: |
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Animecon saturday squeeeee
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mouse
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| Posted: Wed May 29, 2013 1:01 am Post subject: |
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| Atrophy Annie wrote: |
Oh man, scratch that. I look forward to using the swingset! |
i would totally use that swingset even in the rain.
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Dogen
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| Posted: Wed May 29, 2013 1:17 am Post subject: |
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| Yinello wrote: | | Animecon saturday squeeeee |
Ummm yeah, I'm gonna need you to come in and work on saturday.
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eureka00
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| Posted: Wed May 29, 2013 5:05 pm Post subject: |
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| mouse wrote: | | Atrophy Annie wrote: |
Oh man, scratch that. I look forward to using the swingset! |
i would totally use that swingset even in the rain. |
We did play on it a little bit last night after we got home as there was a break in the rain.
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Him
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| Posted: Fri May 31, 2013 8:22 am Post subject: |
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I built a gravity bong. Listening to Fleet Foxes and greeting the morning with a hit from the bong. Oh how I've longed.
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nathan
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I've never understood the wake and bake. Intellectual fuzziness shouldn't be pursued until hope for humanity is lost, and that's rarely pre-5:30 pm.
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fritterdonut
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| Posted: Mon Jun 03, 2013 9:52 am Post subject: |
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Went to the Vancouver Mini Maker Faire. Lots of cool stuff around, from Tesla coils to a 50 ft. robotic, hydraulic-driven snake. Spent a long time lusting after the 3D printers on display, but the $1000+ price tags on most of them scared me away. Came away with a Raspberry Pi (a microcomputer, not the baked good) (http://www.raspberrypi.org/).
And so begun a puzzling hour of trying to install things when I have 4 accessories (a USB key, a mouse, a keyboard, and a wifi adapter), and only 2 USB slots - and not enough juice to power them constantly, meaning the Pi reboots EVERY time I plug either the wifi dongle or the USB key in:
Install the wifi adapter and connect to the internet.
The wireless internet needs a password.
The keyboard is impossible to type with due to amperage issues.
>copy password to text file, copy to USB stick
>use mouse to copy the text file to the Pi, and copy paste text into wifi setup
okay, now I need an on-screen keyboard to type properly with
>use USB stick to copy apt-get commands into terminal
Now you need the keyboard to hit "return" to enter the command
On screen keyboard is installed, everyone is happy. The Pi is hooked up to wireless internet and controlled by my wireless mouse, which can also do the typing thanks to the on-screen matchbox keyboard. Victory!
Wait a second, Raspbian (the suggested OS for the Raspberry Pi, Debian-based) doesn't have native flash (SWF) support. Dicks, I wanted to stream Youtube videos.
>Someone has to have made a plugin for this, right?
All the plugins for Raspbian flash play streamed flash too slow to be usable.
Now find a new distro that has better flash support (openELEC or RaspMBC?) and do it all over again.
>Double dicks.
Overall a lot of fun though.
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eureka00
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| Posted: Mon Jun 03, 2013 12:18 pm Post subject: |
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| fritterdonut wrote: | Went to the Vancouver Mini Maker Faire. Lots of cool stuff around, from Tesla coils to a 50 ft. robotic, hydraulic-driven snake. Spent a long time lusting after the 3D printers on display, but the $1000+ price tags on most of them scared me away. Came away with a Raspberry Pi (a microcomputer, not the baked good) (http://www.raspberrypi.org/).
And so begun a puzzling hour of trying to install things when I have 4 accessories (a USB key, a mouse, a keyboard, and a wifi adapter), and only 2 USB slots - and not enough juice to power them constantly, meaning the Pi reboots EVERY time I plug either the wifi dongle or the USB key in:
Install the wifi adapter and connect to the internet.
The wireless internet needs a password.
The keyboard is impossible to type with due to amperage issues.
>copy password to text file, copy to USB stick
>use mouse to copy the text file to the Pi, and copy paste text into wifi setup
okay, now I need an on-screen keyboard to type properly with
>use USB stick to copy apt-get commands into terminal
Now you need the keyboard to hit "return" to enter the command
On screen keyboard is installed, everyone is happy. The Pi is hooked up to wireless internet and controlled by my wireless mouse, which can also do the typing thanks to the on-screen matchbox keyboard. Victory!
Wait a second, Raspbian (the suggested OS for the Raspberry Pi, Debian-based) doesn't have native flash (SWF) support. Dicks, I wanted to stream Youtube videos.
>Someone has to have made a plugin for this, right?
All the plugins for Raspbian flash play streamed flash too slow to be usable.
Now find a new distro that has better flash support (openELEC or RaspMBC?) and do it all over again.
>Double dicks.
Overall a lot of fun though. |
You and Wheels will have much to discuss.
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Yinello
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| Posted: Mon Jun 03, 2013 2:55 pm Post subject: |
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| Dogen wrote: | | Yinello wrote: | | Animecon saturday squeeeee |
Ummm yeah, I'm gonna need you to come in and work on saturday. |
Anyway it was fun.  I got kitty ears!
The black ones. >:3
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WheelsOfConfusion
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| Posted: Mon Jun 03, 2013 4:48 pm Post subject: |
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| fritterdonut wrote: | Went to the Vancouver Mini Maker Faire. Lots of cool stuff around, from Tesla coils to a 50 ft. robotic, hydraulic-driven snake. Spent a long time lusting after the 3D printers on display, but the $1000+ price tags on most of them scared me away. Came away with a Raspberry Pi (a microcomputer, not the baked good) (http://www.raspberrypi.org/).
And so begun a puzzling hour of trying to install things when I have 4 accessories (a USB key, a mouse, a keyboard, and a wifi adapter), and only 2 USB slots - and not enough juice to power them constantly, meaning the Pi reboots EVERY time I plug either the wifi dongle or the USB key in:
Install the wifi adapter and connect to the internet.
The wireless internet needs a password.
The keyboard is impossible to type with due to amperage issues.
>copy password to text file, copy to USB stick
>use mouse to copy the text file to the Pi, and copy paste text into wifi setup
okay, now I need an on-screen keyboard to type properly with
>use USB stick to copy apt-get commands into terminal
Now you need the keyboard to hit "return" to enter the command
On screen keyboard is installed, everyone is happy. The Pi is hooked up to wireless internet and controlled by my wireless mouse, which can also do the typing thanks to the on-screen matchbox keyboard. Victory!
Wait a second, Raspbian (the suggested OS for the Raspberry Pi, Debian-based) doesn't have native flash (SWF) support. Dicks, I wanted to stream Youtube videos.
>Someone has to have made a plugin for this, right?
All the plugins for Raspbian flash play streamed flash too slow to be usable.
Now find a new distro that has better flash support (openELEC or RaspMBC?) and do it all over again.
>Double dicks.
Overall a lot of fun though. |
I'm using a 10-port powered USB hub to both supply power to the Pi (via a 2xUSB-to-micro-B Y cable) and provide extra ports. I was having trouble with it, though, and need to see if an updated version of Raspbian can fix some of the issues that were being caused.
Apparently the Pi foundation had to kind of skimp on the USB controller hardware and it causes a lot of random hangups with many USB hubs. Also, this is a first-gen B board (with half the RAM of current versions); your board might not have the same problem. |
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fritterdonut
Joined: 24 Jul 2012
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| Posted: Mon Jun 03, 2013 5:17 pm Post subject: |
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| WheelsOfConfusion wrote: | I'm using a 10-port powered USB hub to both supply power to the Pi (via a 2xUSB-to-micro-B Y cable) and provide extra ports. I was having trouble with it, though, and need to see if an updated version of Raspbian can fix some of the issues that were being caused.
Apparently the Pi foundation had to kind of skimp on the USB controller hardware and it causes a lot of random hangups with many USB hubs. Also, this is a first-gen B board (with half the RAM of current versions); your board might not have the same problem. |
From what I've read, it appears the issue I was having was tripping the USB polyfuse when I tried to draw more than ~140mA from the USB sockets. Every time I plugged in the USB stick or the wifi dongle the sudden voltage spike required to start them would draw >140mA, resulting in the Pi restarting.
I'll be getting/making a battery pack with enough juice to run a powered hub and the Pi soon. Also going to pick up a cheap USB keyboard - the only keyboard I had on hand was my gaming keyboard, which uses way too much power.
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Him
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| Posted: Mon Jun 03, 2013 6:32 pm Post subject: |
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| nathan wrote: | | I've never understood the wake and bake. Intellectual fuzziness shouldn't be pursued until hope for humanity is lost, and that's rarely pre-5:30 pm. |
The week end is just one long day as far as I'm concerned.
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fritterdonut
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| Posted: Mon Jun 03, 2013 9:56 pm Post subject: |
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| fritterdonut wrote: | | WheelsOfConfusion wrote: | I'm using a 10-port powered USB hub to both supply power to the Pi (via a 2xUSB-to-micro-B Y cable) and provide extra ports. I was having trouble with it, though, and need to see if an updated version of Raspbian can fix some of the issues that were being caused.
Apparently the Pi foundation had to kind of skimp on the USB controller hardware and it causes a lot of random hangups with many USB hubs. Also, this is a first-gen B board (with half the RAM of current versions); your board might not have the same problem. |
From what I've read, it appears the issue I was having was tripping the USB polyfuse when I tried to draw more than ~140mA from the USB sockets. Every time I plugged in the USB stick or the wifi dongle the sudden voltage spike required to start them would draw >140mA, resulting in the Pi restarting.
I'll be getting/making a battery pack with enough juice to run a powered hub and the Pi soon. Also going to pick up a cheap USB keyboard - the only keyboard I had on hand was my gaming keyboard, which uses way too much power. |
Edit: Ordered a 7" TFT monitor for it, probably going to be using it as a NES/SNES emulator for a while.
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