April 9th - "Galactic Goat makes a Pi"

ruouttaurmind posted some pics said Sun, Apr 9th 2017 at 12:02am ET

Galactic Goat makes a Pi

No, not “pie”…

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…but Pi. As in Raspberry Pi.

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Yup, this post was written on my newly set up Raspberry Pi. The nifty little credit card sized, dirt cheap computer. I grabbed a deal on a Raspberry Pi 3 Model B on Pi Day, March 14th for $33.

If nothing else, the Goat is a gadget goat to be sure.

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I love to tinker and fuss and build. The hours of fun which can be had with a proto board, some resistors, transistors, a couple 556 ICs, a speaker and some LED’s is unbelievable. About $10 in electronic components have filled numerous, pointless hours.

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Building hot rods, electronics, drones, Home Automation and IoT… if there are tools and creativity involved, the Goat is gonna enjoy it.

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So tonight I decided to finally unbox my Pi and put it all together.

“Ok, Pi, not pie. But what can you DO with it?” you ask? Dunno!

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But I’m fixin’ ta find out. A few things I’ve discovered so far: The standard OS, Raspbian, is essentially a Debian Unux-like OS with an elegant GUI, similar to Ubuntu. The easy (and free) NOOBS OS installer for Raspberry Pi includes one-click distributions for everything from assorted UNIX-like OSes to a Kodi distro and even a retro game emulator called recallboxOS (complete with about 3 dozen machine emulators like NES, SNES, Gameboy, PlayStation, Genesis, Gameboy Advance… so many more!).

“Uh… what??” Well, if you have no idea what any of that means, it won’t really interest you anyway.

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Galactic Goat is always looking for new ways to fritter away his precious little free time. How about sharing some of your favorite “tinker gadgets”? Are you into Arduino? BeagleBone? MinnowBoard? Maybe it’s high-tech crafting like 3D printers or Cricut? Gaming? R/C? Model trains? Share your favorites!

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PlacidPenguin said Sun, Apr 9th 2017 at 12:05am ET:

@woodhouse

Twilight Zone - S02E4 - A Thing about Machines
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4wwcb9

Twilight Zone - S05E33 - The Brain Center at Whipple’s
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x54h320

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- @PlacidPenguin It’s a Two-fer- … uh, Sunday!
  
  ruouttaurmind said Sun, Apr 9th 2017 at 12:09am ET
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  I still don’t even know if @woodhouse is watching these videos.
  
  PlacidPenguin said Sun, Apr 9th 2017 at 12:20am ET
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- @PlacidPenguin, Maybe @woodhouse has yet to see the benefit of a goat.
  
  ruouttaurmind said Sun, Apr 9th 2017 at 1:06am ET
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  I blame you that (as of my posting this reply) @Shrdlu has forgotten to star a comment.
  
  PlacidPenguin said Sun, Apr 9th 2017 at 1:08am ET
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  Methinks ,
  
  @shrdlu abides …
  
  f00l said Sun, Apr 9th 2017 at 2:03am ET
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- @PlacidPenguin I’m not watching them (yet), but it’s just because of a dire lack of free time. Nothin’ personal. I’m sure you’ve all noticed more of a lack of woodhouse around these parts lately, and it’s not because I hate ya. Just busy trying to help unbury us from email avalanche, and personal projects in my free time.
  
  woodhouse said Sun, Apr 9th 2017 at 8:58pm ET
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  You better at least be saving the links.
  
  If not, I suppose your profile page could just be filtered down and those links could be (easily) found.
  
  PlacidPenguin said Sun, Apr 9th 2017 at 9:09pm ET
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  Can you please make a special master index thread with all these Twilight Zone links and the context? I haven’t watched any of them yet, lack of time.
  
  f00l said Sun, Apr 9th 2017 at 9:11pm ET
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  Reading and responding to email and other requests for attention from customers is such a bad habit to get into.
  
  Can you get counseling?
  
  f00l said Sun, Apr 9th 2017 at 9:12pm ET
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  Box Sets:
  
  Twilight Zone - Complete Series.
  Twilight Zone - Complete Definitive Collection.
  
  PlacidPenguin said Sun, Apr 9th 2017 at 9:15pm ET
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  I’d make one, but people would ruin the thread.
  
  If only there was a way to create it, get it locked, but at the same time get it updated when I post a new link.
  
  PlacidPenguin said Sun, Apr 9th 2017 at 9:20pm ET
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  Nice shortcut reply.
  You know what I want - and index of the posts here that cause you to reply with a Twilight Zone link, so that we can look up the post and the reply and watch the show when we have time. Otherwise, those posts will just float away from me …
  
  f00l said Sun, Apr 9th 2017 at 9:21pm ET
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  Again, I’d do that, but I need some way of having a thread which wouldn’t be ruined by others.
  
  PlacidPenguin said Sun, Apr 9th 2017 at 9:23pm ET
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  Thumperchick might be able to set you up somehow. Or you could create a junk gmail account, and then link a google sheet that you maintain with this post/reply/TwilightZone episode info and share that link to the Google Sheet.
  
  f00l said Sun, Apr 9th 2017 at 9:24pm ET
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  I have a list made, but I’m not posting it until I figure out how to have a master thread maintained properly.
  
  PlacidPenguin said Sun, Apr 9th 2017 at 9:54pm ET
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  What about the google docs idea, shared from a junk google account? Maintainable by the penguin admin on the doc.
  
  f00l said Sun, Apr 9th 2017 at 9:57pm ET
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  For now:
  https://docs.google.com/document/d/1voPZ8jt2zJVcDULlcqR4aH0WM-lasIIazUkAB2LjUjU/edit
  
  PlacidPenguin said Sun, Apr 9th 2017 at 10:02pm ET
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  K
  
  Wait. Oooh, thanks. Awesome and perfect.
  
  f00l said Sun, Apr 9th 2017 at 10:03pm ET
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f00l said Sun, Apr 9th 2017 at 12:06am ET:

Can you animate a Galactic RoboGoat with one of these?

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- @f00l As a matter of fact… dunno. Prolly?
  
  ruouttaurmind said Sun, Apr 9th 2017 at 12:11am ET
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  mfladd said Sun, Apr 9th 2017 at 12:18am ET
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- @mfladd I saw that gif, but looks more like a llama than a goat.
  
  ruouttaurmind said Sun, Apr 9th 2017 at 12:20am ET
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  PlacidPenguin said Sun, Apr 9th 2017 at 12:22am ET
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- @ruouttaurmind They called it giraffe-goat. A pairing I probably could of found on pornhub.
  
  mfladd said Sun, Apr 9th 2017 at 12:22am ET
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  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1203459/Pen-pals-Giraffe-goat-form-unlikely-friendship-kept-enclosure.html
  
  PlacidPenguin said Sun, Apr 9th 2017 at 12:24am ET
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- @f00l @ruouttaurmind There’s herds of robotics stuff going on w Raspberry Pis.
  
  e.g. this recent blog post - https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/raspberry-turk-chess-playing-robot/
  
  So yeah, prolly, just give enough monkeys some Raspberry Pis and stand back.
  
  sligett said Sun, Apr 9th 2017 at 9:25pm ET
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  ruouttaurmind said Sun, Apr 9th 2017 at 10:07pm ET
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  Twilight Zone - S02E02 - The Man in the Bottle
  
  http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4wwcb7
  
  PlacidPenguin said Sun, Apr 9th 2017 at 10:11pm ET
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