The problem start playing with rails is that most tutorial out there are based on rails 1.2.6 and doesn't work in rails 2 which is now the standard in debian lenny.
First install ruby and rubygem from debian packages.
Then install rails 1.2.6 in a local …
Since under Xen debian etch the is no rpm-strap for fedora > 4 I proceed in this way.
Note: This is only a brief explanation, not an Howto nor a step-by-step guide.
I've installed fedora 8 somewhere with less stuff as possible, manually editing packages and remove any package you can …
We are now working on an update to the Sint Wind project.
This new release will have a Davis's wind speed and direction sensor, simplified schematics and electronics, same Atmel's ATMega 8 microcontroller and a humidity/temperature sensor Sensirion sht-71.
Electronics by Marabo, I will write the C code for …
This weekend I and Andrea 'Forrest' Marabini had installed the sint wind.
Now we hope that the battery get charged and the station start working for testing.
I also hope to find out the time to put all the stuff regarding the sint (soft, manuals, schema...) on the web.
After a long long time I did not get to fly, I have discovered a bug in mlrutil which prevent it to download more than 988 point.
Fixed.