Echolink Node Native on Linux with Svxlink, and a Cheap PTT Hardware Interface August 8, 2011
Posted by GuySoft in Crictor, diy, Electronics, Hamakor, ITU, linux, open source, programming, wireless.Tags: bumbleb, debian, diy, hacking, ham radio, howto, open source, radio, svxlink, ubuntu
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The Jerusalem Echolink Node (4Z7GAI-R)
I recently got my amateur HAM Radio license from the Israel ministry of communication. My call sign is 4Z7GAI.
I have been working on getting an Echolink node running on the Jerusalem repeater using Linux. Echolink is a closed proprietary software that lets you connect ham radios to one another and key them across the Internet. Luckily someone wrote a FOSS program called Svxlink, which lets you connect to the Echolink network on Linux., A remote radio control with an echolink server, svxlink-server and an Echolink graphical client, Qtel. I am going to explain in this post how to get svxlink compiled and working (compiling is the hard part). I will also giving out here an Ubuntu package for the lazy ones among you.
I will also add a small section on the physical connection to the radio, an old Icom IC-02AT from the 80s (around my age). (more…)
Nokia N810 Running OLPC Sugar May 1, 2009
Posted by GuySoft in Crictor, Hamakor, ITU, linux, Maemo, olpc, open source, python.Tags: arm, debian, Maemo, Nokia, olpc, sugar
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- Sugar running on the Nokia N810
Hey all,
This past week I managed to do something quite interesting. I got sugar, running on my Nokia N810, compiled for armel.
The trick that made it work was thanks to easy Debian chroot, that got me access to installing sugar without a few good hours of compilation for arm (and I did that before).
Touchscreen is cool!
The first thing that I found pretty neat was running sugar on a touchscreen device. It really felt better, since most people that I let play with my XO and flip its screen 180 degrees naturally try touching the screen, expecting it had a touchscreen. Sugar was actually quite good with it on the Nokia.
Debian repository for Sugar-jhbuild November 8, 2008
Posted by GuySoft in Hamakor, open source, programming.Tags: debian, olpc, open source, sugar
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Hey all,
I am happy to announce that we have a Debian repository of weekly builds of sugar-jhbuild.
You can see its wiki page here.
You can get it by adding the following line to your /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://download.sugarlabs.org/sugar/liveimages/debian-jhbuild/apt/ sid main
Then type:
apt-get update
apt-get install sugar-jhbuild
Now you can try sugar in a seprate window:
sugar-jhbuild-emulator
Live CD that turns any computer to an OLPC October 14, 2008
Posted by GuySoft in Crictor, Hamakor, linux, open source, programming.Tags: debian, linux, live cd, olpc, programming, sugar
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The OLPC system
Hey all,
After a few days work, I have finished Building a LiveCD that, by booting from it. You would get a full sugar system, no installation required.
Where to get?
Here, in the Sugarlabs Wiki 
