Draft Stratum 1 Microserver HOWTO is up

[Eric S. Raymond]

Mark Atwood <fallenpegasus at gmail.com>:
> Thank you Eric.  And you were accurate in guessing most of my intentions.

Bwahaha.  I will never be assumink I have guessed *all* your intentions,
Fearless Leader.

> I will pick up some hardware, and run through the Howto myself.  If it
> works well, I may lead a class at my local makerspaces, and then again at
> the Seattle Mini Maker Faire.
> 
> Incidentally, I'm in the sfbay area right now, to spend the weekend at Bay
> Area Maker Faire with my kid.  I will look to see what the latest hotness
> in SBCs are.

Excellent.  I shall await that safari report with great interest.  And
bill LF for reimbursement on the hardware - with the Odroid ordered,
the gear budget for my test lab has already hit $383 and is certain to
rise further.

Current inventory, for those interested.  Machines are named after elements
because two letters is all that will fit on the stickers that will fit on
my micro-SD cards.

ar - Pi 3, soon to be mated to an Adafruit HAT
au - Pi 2, mated to the SKU 424254 HAT
fe - Pi 3, mated to an Adafruit HAT
cu - Po 2, mated to an Uputronics HAT

An Odroid C2 and fittings should arrive soon.

The Pi 2s were donated by Frank Nicholas and the Uputronics board by
Anthony Stirk.  I have a BeagleBone Black given to me by some hackerspace
dudes at Penguicon but no GPS cape for it yet.

This weekend I'm going over to Phil Salkie's to solder together the
second Adafruit HAT.

He will also teach me how to casemod with a Dremel tool so we can cope
with the projecting SMA jacks on the Uputronics and SKU 424254.  Alas,
cases are not really optional in my office - it's dusty, and I have an
inquisitive feline who could get his nose singed and doesn't deserve to.

(For those of you read my G+ stream, that's the "giant orange floof" at
https://plus.google.com/+EricRaymond/posts/Am8RoBmDDZT taking his ease
near Rocky the flying squirrel.)
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		<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>