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It is my great pleasure to inform you folks that, almost after four years, I did a new release of LibSWD-0.7 [1], a low-level embedded systems access open framework. Special thanks goes to Andrew Parlane of Carallon Ltd [2] for his much appreciated contributions! Well now I feel like I need to invent some nice small device based on ARM Cortex-M0 CPU ๐
[1] https://github.com/cederom/LibSWD
[2] http://www.carallon.com/
If you want to install additional Python [1] modules inside your Blender [2] environment, you can install PIP using this recommended script [3], then use PIP to install all modules that you want. Note Blender’s Python Virtualenv location is /path_to_blender/blender_version/python/bin/python and you need to use this particular interpreter to launch the script.
[1] https://www.python.org/
[2] https://www.blender.org/
[3] https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/installing/
Python 3.6.0 NumPy and SciPy from MacPorts crash on import bug [1].
[1] https://trac.macports.org/ticket/53453
Google have implemented my idea to make Google Books TTS work like an audio player – it can now work in background and being controlled with bluetooth headset – so I can play, pause and rewind paragraphs of the book read by speech synthesizer just as it was music. This is soo fantastic!!
I have been proposing this solution to Amazon to implement in Kindle for Android, but for years they did not listen. I have switched to Kindle application after Amazon bricked my Kindle3 3G reader with a software update (and all other devices worldwide). Now I just wait until Google Books allow to import my Kindle library, and I will never go back to Kindle. Greedy loses twice.
I have recently started the OrangeADE project [1], that is Orange Autonomous Device Evaluation, an online platform to evaluate security level of network equipment and verify against known vulnerabilities. OrangeADE is released as Open-Source under the “new” 3-Clause BSD license. Enjoy the work in progress! ๐
[1] https://github.com/CeDeROM/OrangeADE
You just need to see this awsome Mars Curiosity [1] simuluator [2] made by NASAJPL [3] with Blender3D [4] Blend4Web [5] HTML5 [6] WebGL [7] Free and Open-Source Software ๐
[1] https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl
[2] https://eyes.nasa.gov/curiosity
[3] http://www.jpl.nasa.gov
[4] https://www.blender.org
[5] https://www.blend4web.com
[6] https://www.w3.org/TR/html5
[7] https://www.khronos.org/webgl
Blender 3D can work with DualShock4 Playstation4 wireless controller over Bluetooth [1].
[1] http://www.blendswap.com/blends/view/78315
Use advanced features of your Synaptics Trackpad on a laptop running FreeBSD [1] with:
hw.psm.synaptics_support="1"
moused_enable="YES"
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/sysmouse"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
EndSection
If you want to have “MacBook” like two-finger scrolling along with other parameters you can set in /etc/sysctl.conf:
hw.psm.synaptics.min_pressure=16 hw.psm.synaptics.max_pressure=220 hw.psm.synaptics.max_width=10 hw.psm.synaptics.vscroll_hor_area=1300 hw.psm.synaptics.vscroll_ver_area=-600 hw.psm.synaptics.vscroll_min_delta=50 hw.psm.synaptics.vscroll_div_min=100 hw.psm.synaptics.vscroll_div_max=150 hw.psm.synaptics.weight_current=3 hw.psm.synaptics.weight_previous=6 hw.psm.synaptics.weight_previous_na=20 hw.psm.synaptics.weight_len_squared=2000 hw.psm.synaptics.div_min=9 hw.psm.synaptics.div_max=17 hw.psm.synaptics.div_max_na=30 hw.psm.synaptics.div_len=100 hw.psm.synaptics.margin_top=200 hw.psm.synaptics.margin_right=200 hw.psm.synaptics.margin_bottom=200 hw.psm.synaptics.margin_left=200 hw.psm.synaptics.window_min=4 hw.psm.synaptics.window_max=10 hw.psm.synaptics.multiplicator=10000
[1] https://wiki.freebsd.org/SynapticsTouchpad
If you want to use NTFS volumes on FreeBSD [1], you need to use FUSE infrastructure andNTFS-3G [2] port. Syntax of fstab is a bit differen in this case:
/dev/ntfs_partition /mnt/ntfs_mounpoint fuse rw,locale=pl_PL.UTF8,mountprog=/usr/local/bin/ntfs-3g 0 0
Also remember to put fuse_load=”YES” in /boot/loader.conf and install the sysutils/fusefs-ntfs port. Do not use hibernated volumes.
[1] https://www.freebsd.org
[2] https://www.freshports.org/sysutils/fusefs-ntfs
If you happen to get a nice laptop with a powerful graphics card, such as polish HYPERBOOK SL502VR [1], it is highly probable that you will use UEFI boot mode. In that case you need to use SCFB [2] driver instead of VESA. Use the xf86-video-scfb package to get Xorg running.
Hybrid Graphics at first used MUX device that did a LCD connect to a selected video card on boot. Nowadays both cards use common Video Framebuffer [3] to draw over a screen. The simple video card (Intel in my case) is always active, while the more powerful and power consuming video card is started on-demand (nVidia in my case). This however requires a dedicated DMA BUF implementation, which is not yet available on FreeBSD, so none of the cards can see any monitor connected, resulting in “No Screens Found Error” from Xorg.
I have already reported a bug/feature request to nVidia. Also developers of FreeBSD are working on the Hybrid Graphics implementation.
[1] http://sklep.hyperbook.pl/hyperbook-sl502-vr-p651rp6g-gtx-1060-p-25965.html
[2] https://wiki.freebsd.org/Graphics/SCFB
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Framebuffer