Nathan rediscovered KTurle. It's a programming language much like Logo (wiki. Nathan began by programming the turtle to make a square, a house, a trapezoid, a diamond, and a circle.
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
kturtle Programming!!!
Nathan rediscovered KTurle. It's a programming language much like Logo (wiki. Nathan began by programming the turtle to make a square, a house, a trapezoid, a diamond, and a circle.
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Jasmine's Flashlight...
Jasmine was learning about volts and amps while she was building her science project today.
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Saturday, January 24, 2009
i love the smell of iPod Linux in the morning... smells like... victory.
while trying to install linux on an iPod, I found this useful blog. With the brief instructions:
- mkdir ipodlinux
- cd ipodlinux
- wget http://de.dataghost.com/ipl/dg-installer/dg-linux-installer-20070311.tar.bz2
- tar -jxf dg-linux-installer-20070311.tar.bz2
- sudo ./installer.sh
Wednesday, January 7, 2009
Alas... gOS didn't work on the new machine :(
Alas... gOS didn't work on the new machine. So last night I did a bit of looking around and found TinyME... a stripped down version of linux. It doesn't run KDE but it has a very simple UI. That's okay because we just want to get the machine functioning (and help it kick the Microsoft).
If all else fails, we can put FreeDOS or BasicLINUX on the machine and see just what we can accomplish!
If all else fails, we can put FreeDOS or BasicLINUX on the machine and see just what we can accomplish!
Tuesday, January 6, 2009
Shoniece & Jasmine Go to Work!
So today, one of our school's administrative assistants donated an HP Pavilion 4535 and a Sony Model CPD-100ES CRT. Shoniece & Jasmine decided they'd put a new OS (gOS of Course!) on it and try to get the thing working at top-speed and in tip-top shape.
Monday, December 15, 2008
Global Positioning Satellite
So, this is not something we've researched in the Tech Club, but it is Tech Related, and some of you may find 
it informative. I had an interesting encounter this weekend with a friend of mine that says that GPS stands for "Global Positioning System". I argued that it stands for "Global Positioning Satellite". His counter was that in a car, you have a GPS, or at least that's what they're referred to as, and "you wouldn't have a satellite in your car." My counter-counter was that the American public is lazy and has shortened the actual term "GPS Receiver" to merely (pun intended... MIR!) GPS. Well, after doing some research (not on Wikipedia Mind You) I discovered that the two are used interchangeably.
When I worked in the industry in the 90's, we were developing GPS systems, or more accurately, systems that used GPS... they used Global Positioning Satellites. However, the 21 Global Positioning
Satellites that orbit Earth are collectively called the Global Positioning System, because their collective data are used in a coordinated effort to determine the location of one GPS Receiver.
When I looked at Garmin's website, they astonishingly referred to GPS as Global Positioning System, But then I found countless other reliable websites that refer to it as Global Positioning Satellite... so... I guess the jury is still out. (but I'm right).
Here's a List of Credible References that I used.
it informative. I had an interesting encounter this weekend with a friend of mine that says that GPS stands for "Global Positioning System". I argued that it stands for "Global Positioning Satellite". His counter was that in a car, you have a GPS, or at least that's what they're referred to as, and "you wouldn't have a satellite in your car." My counter-counter was that the American public is lazy and has shortened the actual term "GPS Receiver" to merely (pun intended... MIR!) GPS. Well, after doing some research (not on Wikipedia Mind You) I discovered that the two are used interchangeably.When I worked in the industry in the 90's, we were developing GPS systems, or more accurately, systems that used GPS... they used Global Positioning Satellites. However, the 21 Global Positioning
Satellites that orbit Earth are collectively called the Global Positioning System, because their collective data are used in a coordinated effort to determine the location of one GPS Receiver.When I looked at Garmin's website, they astonishingly referred to GPS as Global Positioning System, But then I found countless other reliable websites that refer to it as Global Positioning Satellite... so... I guess the jury is still out. (but I'm right).
Here's a List of Credible References that I used.
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