[lug] Call for speakers - BLUG 2014

[Will]

I'm interested in system administration topics like,

Docker
LXC
OpenVZ
Open vSwitch
GO for building tool chains
What's new in RHEL 7
Mesos, Mesos+Marathon
BTRFS


On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 12:57 PM, Michael J. Hammel <
mjhammel at graphics-muse.org> wrote:

> On Tue, 2014-01-07 at 11:57 -0700, William D. Knoche wrote:
> > In fact it would be really helpful to have a comprehensive comparison of
> > each with notes about features, development toolsets, issues, etc.
> > Anyone already done this?
>
> Well, I have both the BeagleBoard (not BeagleBone) and RPi.  I switched
> to the Pi purely for selfish reasons - the guy doing the software for
> the BeagleBoard was less than friendly in his interactions with some of
> the community and generally so terse in his explanations as to be less
> than helpful.  I won't go so far to say he was rude, but I found it
> off-putting. The RPi community was much more inviting.  Both are
> annoying with their binary blobs for video support, but I've learned to
> live with that.  I found it a little easier to find the canonical
> sources for the kernel, firmware, etc for the Pi though if you follow
> Robert Nelson on the Beagle lists you'll find his repositories easy to
> work with.
>
> I'm working on a project called PiBox.  There is the PiBox Development
> Platform which is a general purpose custom build/distribution
> (Crosstool-NG/BusyBox/Buildroot/etc).  From that I've built the PiBox
> Media Server which I will run in my R-Pod trailer when we go camping.
> It lets me plug in an USB-connected SD card and stream it to my android
> devices.  It also provides a USB connected camera that I can use to
> stream to web browsers - I'll use this as a rear-view camera when we
> pull the trailer and may extend it for 360-degree viewing around the
> trailer.  It will (eventually) also include environmental sensors
> support and an on-board ~2" TFT touchscreen display to for display and
> control.  A web interface provides the camera streaming and network
> setup, the latter only from a local browser (re: via the HDMI connected
> to the Pi).  My goal with using a custom distribution is to strip out
> non-essential components to reduce the cost of the SD card along with SD
> wear and hold down memory usage to improve performance.
>
> Later I'll roll out the PiBox Media Player with XBMC, full codec support
> and some display mechanism (probably just a microDLP projector bought
> off the shelf that connects via the HDMI).  I recently found a cheap
> projector mechanism that uses a simple Fresnel lens and shoebox that
> I'll probably build first.  The goal is to play movies from the Media
> Server through the Media Player projected onto the side of my trailer.
> We have an attached, enclosed canopy inside which we'll watch the movies
> ala a drive-in theater.  I'll use Bluetooth audio to support multiple
> headphones.
>
> I'm looking into integrating things like WifiDirect to ease
> configuration, Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) for a sensor network and
> possibly (long term, cuz I'm not a hardware guy) roll out a custom USB
> hub connected to the GPIO pins specifically targeted at small-trailer
> owners.
>
> All of this is custom - I roll my own cross toolchain, build my own
> kernel and root file system and customize the lot with opkgs.  You'd be
> surprised how much you learn if you try to do the whole thing yourself.
>
> Anyway, that's just my little project(s).
>
> --
> Michael J. Hammel <mjhammel at graphics-muse.org>
>
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