25 December 2021 - 31 December 2021
Table of Contents
- 1. MIT OCW
- 2. LA County index map
- 3. Mill Controller #2
- 4. WWVB Decoder
- 5. Santa Cruz Weather Station
- 6. Marble Computation
- 7. ca-r
- 8. us-index-map
- 9. Sun Ultra 10
- 10. Apple iMac G4
- 11. Davies Brothel
- 12. Peter Kim
- 13. Linux Audio
- 14. EPICS
- 15. Brini Tracker II
- 16. wktcolor
- 17. wktplot
- 18. AMDGPU
- 19. Ninja v Make
- 20. GMP Forth
- 21. Swocer
- 22. Books
Merry Christmas and Hopefully a Happier New Year
1. MIT OCW
1.1. 18.01 - Single Variable Calculus
1.1.1. Sessions 85-101
Done!
1.2. 8.01X - Physics I - Classical Mechanics with Labs
Materials and textbook received.
2. LA County index map
No changes.
3. Mill Controller #2
Old Controller #1 seems to be operational, but there are OpenGL errors with more recent X servers.
4. WWVB Decoder
Need to re-think.
5. Santa Cruz Weather Station
Rain Gauge is still working!
6. Marble Computation
Collected materials (thin copper plate, copper PCB blanks) for prototyping.
6.1. Next Steps
6.1.1. Continue Reversible Computation Study
6.1.2. Prototype Marble inverter
Using dual rail differential logic (left/,right/1), an inverter merely switches sides. Now thinking an over-center spring controlling a 'side gate' controlled by a pair of sense levers.
7. ca-r
Issue #33 seems to have fixed itself.
7.1. Next Step
Wait for further breakage.
8. us-index-map
8.1. error analysis
Started an error analysis on the USGS topomapsall.csv index file. Nothing obvious pops up, and the error reported by Maureen would be impossible to catch anyway.
9. Sun Ultra 10
Trying to see what state it is in. Fires up but no video. Need DB25M to debug over serial port.
9.1. Next steps
9.1.1. Serial debug
10. Apple iMac G4
Building userland may be a PITA due to lack of RAM. Build would often segfault.
10.1. Next steps
Not sure.
11. Davies Brothel
11.1. New case C1923172, consolidated with 15 Parties.
11.2. Next hearing 14jan2022. Still no PACER.
12. Peter Kim
12.1. Broadcom CSG Employee indicted for trade secret theft.
12.2. United States v. Kim (5:21-cr-00438).
12.3. Next hearing: 1/31/2022 01:30 PM
13. Linux Audio
13.1. pvanal to spectrogram
Enough of libriffr and libpvocf work to start pvoctool https://github.com/daniel-kelley/pvoctool. Have HDF5 output and text delimited output for octave. Can import PVOC data to octave spectrogram for display.
13.1.1. Next steps
Loop analysis
13.2. CSound programming.
The FORTRAN of computer music. Getting up to speed.
13.3. Faust programming
13.3.1. Next Steps
- GAC Patch save/restore
- LV2 autopatcher
Exploratory tool to generate (was pd, ecasound, now carla) patch for arbitrary LV2 plugin: hook up audio inputs to signal source, audio outputs to speakers, control inputs to control surface, etc.
- OSC control surface
Some sort of GUI tool (knob/slider) to OSC messages. This may be as simple as a Faust UI program.
- Faust/csound
See if a faust generated unit works.
14. EPICS
14.1. Next steps
14.1.1. CGR-101 SCPI interface
Most interaces coded but not tested.
14.1.2. u3scpi network port testing
14.1.3. initial EPICS interface
14.1.4. u3scpi analog/digital port reconfiguration.
14.1.5. u3scpi 'DIGITIZER' subsystem.
15. Brini Tracker II
Maybe this can be simplified to just the GPS module in 'tracking' mode (which gets carried around), and a separate docking module to extract the data.
15.1. Next steps
15.1.1. Validate remaining standard GPS messages
15.1.2. Investigate GPS chipset data logging
15.1.3. Investigate LoRA radio interface
16. wktcolor
16.1. Next steps
16.1.1. Explore how to get a minimal coloring
Need a specific planar graph four coloring.
17. wktplot
17.1. Next steps
Understand why -r doesn't solve the wktvor/wktdel "sliver at edge" problem. Explore biological cell Voronoi organization
18. AMDGPU
18.1. Next step
18.1.1. Reverse engineer HSAKMT programming.
19. Ninja v Make
19.1. Next Step
19.1.1. clean simple measurements
20. GMP Forth
20.1. Need to think about adding floating point support
20.2. Port to non-Linux OS
21. Swocer
21.1. Most crashing addressed
Nullified 'handle' API free functions helped a lot. Still see some errors in operations.
21.2. Added outline for 'bottle' test
Added all functions believed to be needed for 'bottle' demo test. Test doesn't pass so is disabled.
21.3. Next steps
Swocer future. Check out what's needed for gears.