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My first Linux based robot

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hoffmanjon
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My Robot

I successfully connected my BeagleBone Black running Angstrom Linux to a Dagu Rover 5 Tracked Chassis using the Rover 5 motor driver board.  I then wrote Python client/server scripts that allowed me to control the robot over a Bluetooth RFComm connection.  The blog posts listed below document the steps I took to create the robot, from start to finish, with videos and images.

 

I just got my BeagleBoard Black, now what?

My first working robot, It’s Alive

My first working robot, It’s Alive – Part 2

My first working robot, It’s Alive – Part 3

 

Opera 24 On Chromium Now Available For Linux

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Phoronix
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In early 2013 it was announced Opera would be switching to Google’s Chromium Engine over its own internal web rendering engine it had been using up to that point. They switched to Google’s forked WebKit engine and for about a year now have been doing new Windows releases while Linux was left out…

Read more at Phoronix

Spyware Subsidizes High-End Android Phone

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ZDNet
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We’re all used to crapware subsidizing Windows PCs. Now firmware-based spyware is subsidizing Android phones. Here’s what to look for.

To Get Developer Adoption Today You Have To Build a Community

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DevX
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Michael Williams, BIRT Product Evangelist & Forums Manager at Actuate, outlines some key points to keep in mind for building your own open source community.

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How to Sync Microsoft OneDrive on Linux

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The Linux Foundation
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OneDrive (previously known as SkyDrive) is a popular cloud storage offering from Microsoft. Currently OneDrive offers 7GB free storage for every new signup. As you can imagine, OneDrive is well integrated with other Microsoft software products. Microsoft also offers a standalone OneDrive client which automatically backs up pictures and videos taken by a camera to […]

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    Open-Source Radeon Performance Boosted By Linux 3.16

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    Phoronix
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    Besides the Nouveau driver performance being faster thanks to experimental re-clocking when using the Linux 3.16 kernel, there are also performance improvements to note with some generations of AMD graphics processors.

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    Steps to Diversity in Your Open Source Group

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    OpenSource.com
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    Coraline Ehmke has developed apps for the web for 20 years. In that time, she’s learned a lot about open source culture and what makes a community of contributors tick. At the Great Wide Open conference this year, Coraline gave a talk about diversity in open source.

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    Distribution Release: MakuluLinux 6.0

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    DistroWatch
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    Jacque Raymer has announced the release of MakuluLinux 6.0 “KDE” edition, a Debian-based desktop distribution shipping with the very latest KDE desktop: “The long-awaited update to the KDE edition is now over, Stability, speed and beauty is what drives this edition. Based on KDE 4.13.1 and Linux kernel….

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    Samsung to Unveil its Android Wear Smartwatch at Google I/O Next Week

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    The Linux Foundation
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      Samsung has released a Tizen smart watch in the form of the Samsung Gear 2, but now, according to sources in CNET, the korean hardware manufacturer is due to launch their own Android wear offering next week at Google’s developer conference, Google I/O.

    So why release Tizen and Android? Being a Tizen site we would prefer dearest Samsung to only release Tizen from now till the end of time, but the fact is that Android and Android ware is an immediate revenue stream that Samsung does not want to miss out on. Samsung are thought to be showing an Android Wear smartwatch that uses either their own Exynos range of processors, or possibly some Qualcomm ones, according to CNET sources. 

    Read more at Tizen Experts

    Distribution Release: Netrunner 14

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    DistroWatch
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    Clemens Toennies has announced the release of Netrunner 14, a Kubuntu-based Linux distribution featuring a customised KDE 4.13 desktop and five years of security support: “The Netrunner team today released Netrunner 14 ‘Frontier’ – 32-bit and 64-bit editions. The release follows Kubuntu’s support cycle, giving it a full…

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