Having the internet cable modem and the router in one place in the apartment, I needed a way to connect all my gadgets in my room/office without having to run a dozen of ethernet cables in the hallway. More specifically, I wanted to have my IP phone close to the bed and not to have [...]
Having a functionnal setup for playing music on my unslung box, I decided to install and configure mpd on it for more flexibility.
Mpd is available as an ipkg package but some work must be done to make it work. I had to create /opt/etc/mpd.conf with the following content:
port “6600″
music_directory “/share/flash/data/public/mp3″
playlist_directory “/share/flash/data/public/mpd/playlists/”
db_file “/share/flash/data/public/mpd/mpd.db”
log_file “/share/flash/data/public/mpd/mpd.log”
error_file “/share/flash/data/public/mpd/mpd.error”
state_file “/share/flash/data/public/mpd/state”
audio_output_format [...]
Lors de ma participation à Eurobot 2007, j’avais expérimenté l’utilisation d’un NSLU2 pour le robot. L’ordinateur embarqué à base de processeur ARM permet beaucoup malgré ça taille et son prix plutôt abordable (quelques 50$ sur Ebay). Cette année-là, j’avais utilisé OpenEmbedded et OpenSlug comme distro sur le bidule (”slug” pour les intimes). Une modification électroniques [...]