linuxastronomy.org

Picture, Linux World Expo 2004 San Francisco, Linuxastronomy banner for the show.

The show has ended, it went well, please have a look at: Equipment and faq page Web camera images.
The show preparation has been possible by the help and collaboration between a few people and organizations. We wish to thanks the following people and organizations:
People at Alembic have helped us in many ways, at first as sponsors, then as volunteers as well. They are so dedicated, I would not be surprised if their guitars run linux. ;-) Southern California Linux Expo, maintain a nice tradition with ".org" (non profit organizations), by providing them a booth in the exhibit hall.	View of the Linuxastronomy.org booth. At time the show is going on (February 12-13 2005), you should have a view of our booth and its surrounding. A new picture should be loaded about every 2 minutes.	Martin Roesh founder of SourceFire and Creator of one of the most famous intrusion detection software "Snort" has proposed to host our web site. Since that day we do not experiment any more downtime on the webserver. PacketPress publishing has been a great help for the preparation of this show.
Many thank you to: Young Adults, teenagers that while bored tried hard to participate. The interest built up as the project went along. As well as all the volunteers that are working to make linux and open source a reality. The GIMP, Mozilla, Apache, MidnightCommander, Xcoral, VNC, Webcam and many others apps we are using in our daily life. Many people that make our project possible, Linus Torvald for the wonderfull o.s. he made available to everybody, Richard Stallman for the creation of the GNU General Public Licence. All the volunteers around the world that are making their time available to make open source operating system as well as applications avaialble for free (as in free speach) to anybody ot use.

Linuxastronomy is a virtual group of people which are helping each others.
They take part of their time to help youngers kids staying busy, by making projects with them.

Linuxastronomy being loosely organized, our volunteers can be spread on more than one continent.
Example of how far we can be spread: Antartica.
That is correct, one of our volunteer is spending several months, actually years with the "real" pengins.

Temperature variation, at the Southern California linux expo showfloor.
Los Angeles convention center, February 12 and 13 2005.

Image updated about every 2 minutes.
Picture. At time the show is going on, an image of the Southern California linux expo showfloor temperature can be seen.

At time the show is going on, this image represent the temperature variation of the showfloor.
It shows the resistance of the temperature probe.
For easier understanding, the trace has been inverted, when the temperature goes up the trace line goes up. H
The same program (on three different machines in this case) is used for reading the temperature, collecting the seismometer data, voltage and amps variations.
More information about the digital multimeter application.

Seismicity, at the Southern California linux expo showfloor.
Los Angeles convention center, February 12 and 13 2005.

Image updated about every 2 minutes.
Picture. At time the show is going on, an image of the Southern California linux expo seismicity can be seen.

At time the show is going on, this image represent the ground motions on the showfloor.
It shows the difference of potential in volt.
The seismometer is connected to a digital multimeter, which is equipped with a serial port (RS-232c). The meter send the data to a computer, that do some processing then send them at regular interval to the web server.
More information about the Seismometer.

Voltage variation, at the Southern California linux expo showfloor.
Los Angeles convention center, February 12 and 13 2005.

Image updated about every 2 minutes.
Picture. At time the show is going on, an image of the Southern California linux expo showfloor variation in voltage can be seen.

At time the show is going on, this image represent the voltage variation on our booth.
The digital multimeter measure the voltage in a 110 volts outlet.
The same program (on three different machines in this case) is used for reading the temperature, collecting the seismometer data, voltage and amps variations.
More information about the digital multimeter application.

Amps variation, at the Southern California linux expo showfloor.
Los Angeles convention center, February 12 and 13 2005.

Image updated about every five minutes.
Picture. At time the show is going on, an image of the Southern California linux expo showfloor variation in voltage can be seen.

At time the show is going on, this image represent the Amps variation on our booth.
The digital multimeter measure the amps going through all the equipment in our booth.
The same program (on four different machines in this case) is used for reading the temperature, collecting the seismometer data, voltage and amps variations.
More information about the digital multimeter application.

Sample of linuxastronomy volunteers projects:
or trying to answer the question "what do you do ?".

- pyDmm. A project to connect a digital multimeter to a computer (current).

- Seismometer. This simple seismometer had a great success in San Francisco (lwe 2004).

- workbench. Some project start by one adult person, then are completed with a younger one. It make seems the project to be shorter and kids still end with some "cool stuff" (winter 2004-2005). ;-)
Want to volunteer some time with us ?
(click on Next at the bottom of each page, to see all the pages).

- Uncompleated truss telescope. Sometime an adult help is what make it happen. Example of a (yet) incomplete project (winter 2003-2004).
Would you like to help ?

- Binoculars viewing chair. A simple project that bring a lot of fun at the end (2003)
(click on Next at the bottom of each page, to see all the pages).

- Telescope. Telescope realisation (2001-2002), the earliest days of the linuxastronomy group.
(click on Next at the bottom of each page, to see all the pages).

Linuxastronomy is a virtual group of people which are helping each others. They take part of their time to help youngers kids staying busy, by making projects with them.
Linuxastronomy being loosely organized, our volunteers can be spread on more than one continent. Example of how far we can be spread: Antartica. That is correct, one of our volunteer is spending several months, actually years with the "real" pengins.

Temperature variation, at the Southern California linux expo showfloor. Los Angeles convention center, February 12 and 13 2005.
Image updated about every 2 minutes. At time the show is going on, this image represent the temperature variation of the showfloor. It shows the resistance of the temperature probe. For easier understanding, the trace has been inverted, when the temperature goes up the trace line goes up.		H The same program (on three different machines in this case) is used for reading the temperature, collecting the seismometer data, voltage and amps variations. More information about the digital multimeter application.

Seismicity, at the Southern California linux expo showfloor. Los Angeles convention center, February 12 and 13 2005.
Image updated about every 2 minutes. At time the show is going on, this image represent the ground motions on the showfloor. It shows the difference of potential in volt.		The seismometer is connected to a digital multimeter, which is equipped with a serial port (RS-232c). The meter send the data to a computer, that do some processing then send them at regular interval to the web server. More information about the Seismometer.

Voltage variation, at the Southern California linux expo showfloor. Los Angeles convention center, February 12 and 13 2005.
Image updated about every 2 minutes. At time the show is going on, this image represent the voltage variation on our booth. The digital multimeter measure the voltage in a 110 volts outlet.		The same program (on three different machines in this case) is used for reading the temperature, collecting the seismometer data, voltage and amps variations. More information about the digital multimeter application.

Amps variation, at the Southern California linux expo showfloor. Los Angeles convention center, February 12 and 13 2005.
Image updated about every five minutes. At time the show is going on, this image represent the Amps variation on our booth. The digital multimeter measure the amps going through all the equipment in our booth.		The same program (on four different machines in this case) is used for reading the temperature, collecting the seismometer data, voltage and amps variations. More information about the digital multimeter application.

Sample of linuxastronomy volunteers projects: or trying to answer the question "what do you do ?".
- pyDmm. A project to connect a digital multimeter to a computer (current).
- Seismometer. This simple seismometer had a great success in San Francisco (lwe 2004).
- workbench. Some project start by one adult person, then are completed with a younger one. It make seems the project to be shorter and kids still end with some "cool stuff" (winter 2004-2005). ;-) Want to volunteer some time with us ? (click on Next at the bottom of each page, to see all the pages).
- Uncompleated truss telescope. Sometime an adult help is what make it happen. Example of a (yet) incomplete project (winter 2003-2004). Would you like to help ?
- Binoculars viewing chair. A simple project that bring a lot of fun at the end (2003) (click on Next at the bottom of each page, to see all the pages).
- Telescope. Telescope realisation (2001-2002), the earliest days of the linuxastronomy group. (click on Next at the bottom of each page, to see all the pages).