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by hassellbear
Sun Apr 03, 2016 2:13 am
Forum: Cool stuff with fitlet
Topic: Give Fitlet Hand Tracking Gesture Control Using Leap Motion
Replies: 2
Views: 32090

Give Fitlet Hand Tracking Gesture Control Using Leap Motion

System Software for Linux The required Linux software is available at: https://www.leapmotion.com/setup LeapMotionSetup.png Download and Install 1. Download the compressed archive file Leap_Motion_Setup_Linux_2.3.1.tgz 2. Extract the contents of the tarball file 3. Install the software using the co...
by hassellbear
Sun Apr 03, 2016 1:15 am
Forum: Cool stuff with fitlet
Topic: Give Fitlet Hand Tracking Gesture Control Using Leap Motion
Replies: 2
Views: 32090

Give Fitlet Hand Tracking Gesture Control Using Leap Motion

Overview Technology continues to march forward, and yesterday's science fiction often becomes today's reality. Such is the case with hand tracking gesture control as depicted in the 2002 movie "Minority Report". In that movie, Tom Cruise effortlessly manipulates wall sized computer displays by simp...
by hassellbear
Fri Apr 01, 2016 1:18 am
Forum: Linux on MintBox Mini / Linux on fitlet
Topic: Mint Mini How to-> Headless? VPN Only?
Replies: 4
Views: 11269

Re: Mint Mini How to-> Headless? VPN Only?

Would VNC work for your purposes?

The post listed below includes an implementation of headless VNC. Just ignore/omit the Power Over Ethernet parts.

http://www.fit-pc.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=153&t=5731

Best regards and good luck.

hassellbear
by hassellbear
Wed Mar 30, 2016 9:28 pm
Forum: Cool stuff with fitlet
Topic: Make Filtet A Colorful Communicator Using Blink1 in Linux
Replies: 5
Views: 17043

Re: Make Filtet A Colorful Communicator Using Blink1

This project was developed in Linux Mint 17.3. The command line tool "blink1-tool" works fine in Linux, so I designed the apps to call that tool as opposed to the APIs. It is the Graphical Interface "blinkcontrol" that is only available for Windows and OSx. Hopefully, that tool will become available...
by hassellbear
Wed Mar 23, 2016 2:54 am
Forum: Cool stuff with fitlet
Topic: Make Filtet A Colorful Communicator Using Blink1 in Linux
Replies: 5
Views: 17043

Make Filtet A Colorful Communicator Using Blink1 in Linux

Custom Blink1 Apps For Fitlet The following Blink1 Apps are written in Perl and are specific to Fitlet. CPU Temperature Monitor This app uses the color progression ##### ##### ##### ##### ##### ##### to represent the CPU temperature from 30 to 70 Degrees C. The color progression is continuous, and ...
by hassellbear
Wed Mar 23, 2016 2:04 am
Forum: Cool stuff with fitlet
Topic: Make Filtet A Colorful Communicator Using Blink1 in Linux
Replies: 5
Views: 17043

Make Filtet A Colorful Communicator Using Blink1 in Linux

Overview Sometimes simple things are quite cool. Blink1 by ThingM is such a simple and cool device. Blink1's manufacturer calls it a "USB LED Notification Light". In actuality, it is small USB dongle which gives a computer the ability to communicate using a wide variety of colors and blink patterns...
by hassellbear
Mon Feb 29, 2016 4:05 pm
Forum: fitlet hardware
Topic: GPIO Timing accuracy
Replies: 3
Views: 9471

Re: GPIO Timing accuracy

This may answer your question - it is a bit "buried" in the wiki.


http://www.fit-pc.com/wiki/index.php/FA ... pabilities
by hassellbear
Wed Feb 17, 2016 11:49 pm
Forum: Mechanical
Topic: incomplete documentation
Replies: 2
Views: 6949

Re: incomplete documentation

The mSATA Heatplate installation instructions are found in the wiki at this location.

http://www.fit-pc.com/wiki/index.php/Fi ... e_Assembly
by hassellbear
Mon Feb 01, 2016 12:06 am
Forum: Cool stuff with fitlet
Topic: Use Fitlet As A Time Server For Isolated Networks
Replies: 1
Views: 12233

Use Fitlet As A Time Server For Isolated Networks

Software and System Configuration 1. Follow the installation steps indicated in the Fitlet GPS Time Source Application which can be found here: http://www.fit-pc.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=153&t=5841 2. Complete the following additional steps A. Using an editor such as nano, make the following chang...
by hassellbear
Sun Jan 31, 2016 11:47 pm
Forum: Cool stuff with fitlet
Topic: Use Fitlet As A Time Server For Isolated Networks
Replies: 1
Views: 12233

Use Fitlet As A Time Server For Isolated Networks

Overview Using some simple software and an inexpensive USB type GPS receiver, Fitlet can easily function as a time server for isolated networks where Internet and WAN connectivity is unavailable. A Time Server TimeServer.PNG This application note builds on the Fitlet GPS Time Source application whi...

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