[GNHLUG] [DLSLUG-Announce] DLSLUG Monthly Meeting - 2008-02-07 - Where Penguins Dare to Roam
Bill McGonigle
bill at bfccomputing.com
Fri Feb 1 08:35:01 EST 2008
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Dartmouth-Lake Sunapee Linux User Group
http://dlslug.org/
a chapter of GNHLUG - http://gnhlug.org
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The next regular monthly meeting of the DLSLUG will be held:
Thursday, February 7th, 7-9PM
at: Dartmouth College, Haldeman 041
All are welcome, free of charge.
Agenda
7:00 Sign-in, networking
7:15 Introductory remarks
7:20 Where Penguins Dare to Roam -
Linux under the Antarctic Ice Shelf
presented by David McPike
David will present Project S.C.I.N.I., the Submersible Capable
of under Ice Navigation and Imaging.
Marine science in the Antarctic is hampered and facilitated by
ice. The frozen surface of the Southern Ocean that surrounds the
continent of Antarctica provides a stable platform that one can
walk and drive on, allowing for oceanography without getting
seasick. However, one has to get through the ice to access the
sea, and the bigger the hole you have to make the more difficult
it is. Project SCINI is building a remotely operated vehicle
(ROV) that fits through a 15 cm hole, which can be drilled by
one person in under an hour. With this new ROV, they can reach
new locations under the ice that have previously been too remote
or too deep to access.
They are using an Elphel 353 video camera for main navigation,
an open-source (hardware and software) camera which runs the
Linux 2.6 kernel and the lighttpd webserver with PHP. The
camera's software and FPGA code are licensed under GPLv3. David
will discuss the project and describe his work on the camera and
the networking technology used to deliver data and power down
the 1000' tether.
David has eleven years experience in network engineering and
Unix administration, but he's really been a geek since helping
his brother input BASIC programs out of Antic magazines on his
first computer, an Atari 800, at age six. He got hooked up with
the United States Antarctic Program out of Denver, Colorado
about seven years ago and has been fascinated by the Antarctic
ever since.
8:50 Roundtable Exchange - where the attendees can make
announcements or ask a linux question of the group.
Please see the website for links to directions.
If any area companies are interested in sponsoring refreshments, please
let me know.
Please RSVP so we can give a theoretical refreshment sponsor a
headcount.
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