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Pasky's Home Automation

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2012-10-08T01:39:33+00:00

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	+	===== Pasky's Home Automation =====

	+	Incoherent notes.
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	+	Goals:
	+	* Main: Alarm clock using bright white LED slowly litting up
	+	* Intelligent sleep maintenance (smart wakeup, keep room dim until wakeup)
	+	* Simple home "entertainment" (A/V, room light)
	+
	+	Control:
	+	* RPi controlled over wifi
	+
	+	Accessories:
	+	* Arduino (only temporary before the dust settles)
	+
	+	==== Roadmap ====
	+
	+	=== High priority ===
	+	* [DONE] ClubMat-case
	+	* [DONE] LED control circuit
	+	* [DONE] PWM control by Arduino
	+	* LED mounting in ClubMat-case
	+	* Confirm Arduino-RPi communication
	+	* Setup RPi wifi
	+	* Simple alarm clock software
	+	* External "ack" button
	+
	+	=== Later ===
	+	* RPi web interface for alarm clock
	+	* Connect A/V to TV, mainly for music; web interface for music player
	+	* Connect RGB LED string
	+	* Connect blank tilting servos
	+	* Connect window open/close servos
	+	* Convert from Arduino to I2C peripherals (PWM: sargon's TLC59116 breakout?)
	+	* Convert from ATX to dedicated 5V supply
	+
	+	==== Ideas ====
	+	* TV relay control
	+	* Accelerometer-based sleep tracking (tap into Android as first phase)
	+	* Voice control
	+	* Kinect control (stretching when waking up)
	+	* Portal turret casing, voice samples :-)
	+
	+	==== Missing pieces ====
	+	* Power socket controlled by TTL signal (plug'n'play boxed solution) (for TV relay control)

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Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2012-06-24T18:32:59+00:00

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Personal Analytics

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2013-08-11T15:02:11+00:00

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	+	===== Personal Analytics =====

	+	Primary goal: Gather data to provide feedback (and immediate bad conscience) regarding time management - both to decrease slack permeating and diluting (or just postponing) worktime, and to allow for focused time for intense relaxation.
	+
	+	Comparatively low priority for now: Health/exercise/mood tracking. (Too many solutions focus on this.)
	+
	+	Constraints: Linux, ideally open source + no cloud. Possibly Android, but I hate using my phone.
	+
	+	==== Acquisition ====
	+
	+	=== Software Tools ===
	+
	+	* email analytics: https://github.com/mihaip/mail-trends
	+	* tried out; updated wiki + pushed out fork handling charset problems properly
	+	* some nice plots, but ultimately nothing much useful in them
	+	* sleep tracking: using Sleep as Android (questionable usefulness; mine+correlate existing data?)
	+	* TODO: extract data (/data/data/com.urbandroid.sleep https://sites.google.com/site/sleepasandroid/developer-api)
	+	* location logging: TODO collect `iwlist scan` data
	+	* logging workstation tty idle times: TODO write own C tool, `w` is too much pain
	+	* time tracking: TODO try rescuetime.com
	+	* ruza says its blocking functionality is not so useful in practice
	+	* time tracking: TODO hamster? - tried it some time ago, problem is, manual text entry is tedious, cannot capture rapid/unexpected activity changes (brief switch to mailbox+irssi... t+5min., oops, not so brief) - needs massive automation, fluid hotkeys for recent activities AND activity reminder; also, needs to seamlessly aggregate over multiple systems (not all of them with GNOME3, too); its datastore may be suitable backend for other tools?
	+	* possible key for automation: http://arbtt.nomeata.de/ (thx 2 jenda)
	+	* set up, sample rate 5s
	+	* TODO make use of the data
	+	* TODO go to tab level in konsole?
	+	* Android phone data: TODO call information, app_running+unlocked time data, alarm set + alarm silenced times
	+	* TODO logging all keystrokes? rather controversial ;)
	+	* log only histograms over 5 minute intervals or some such
	+
	+	=== Time Tracker Box ===
	+
	+	Physical device to collect work/slack info with no overhead + automated data acquisition. TODO
	+
	+	==== Enhancement ====
	+
	+	* email: even a simple thing like "show only new mails by default in mutt" has helped a lot!
	+	* TODO email: redirect automated daily emails to a different mbox _AND_ batch it all up to a daily digest
	+	* TODO visualization + aggregation
	+	* TODO try rescuetime.com for autoblocking?
	+	* TODO focus enhancement: firefox,irssi rapid theme switch based on activity + OSD countup timer for out-of-focus activity?
	+	* TODO focus enhancement: OSD display of current (desired) activity? small OSD focus charm?
	+	* TODO gamification: score counting for work activities; multipliers for properly tagged activities
	+	* TODO URL accumulator (mainly from IRC): to avoid breaking focus by having to click on an url immediately
	+	* https://github.com/evaryont/dotfiles/blob/master/config/irssi/scripts/sb_search.pl
	+	* TODO personal dashboard: current stats + outstanding items + substitution for my current `todo` text file (simple appointment planning + project status)

Bootstraping Space Colonization

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2012-12-13T20:44:53+00:00

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	+	===== Bootstraping Space Colonization =====

	+	1. Humans can fly to the orbit and the moon and can send things to outer space. (now) \\
	+	2. ??? \\
	+	3. Humans have colonized the outer space. (PROFIT)
	+
	+	This page is to gather ideas about what the step 2 is and brainstorm how to make a tangible contribution. Keep your imagination within currently understood physical laws and plausible inventions based on already known concepts. It's pasky's scratchpad page but feel free to edit if you have some ideas.
	+
	+	==== Target ====
	+
	+	It would appear that with all resources shortages, environmental deterioration, ideologic fundamentalism and globally dangerous (or simply irrationally appearing to be for the majority of humans) experiments, the straightforward solution is to shatter humanity to many voluntarily independent (or varyingly interdependent) pieces.
	+
	+	Step 3 will be achieved when there are multiple stable, independent, self-sufficient human colonies out of the immediate reach of Earth (i.e. not just the orbit). A colony can be based on some space object (planet, moon, asteroid) or a free-standing construed space structure.
	+
	+	Unfortunately, this still sounds too much like far-removed science fiction given that the year is 2012. Weren't we supposed to start terraforming Mars around now?
	+
	+	==== Step 2 ====
	+
	+	The self-sufficient human colonies will not just pop up from thin air, such state must be achieved gradually by building on many intermediate steps. The requirements are partially independent and the problem is to trace them far enough to reach some that can be worked on //now// (and most of the steps must be feasible and fun to work on by themselves to also bring short-term rewards).
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	+	General human colony requirements:
	+	* Transportation technology (we must be able to get there and haul stuff over there)
	+	* This seems to be the only area making big progress as of now and perhaps not crucial to involve oneself in.
	+	* Of course, travel to other planets will still take enormous amount of time, but 1-3 years to Mars is ok and we can build stations close by first
	+	* Space construction technology (we must be able to build it)
	+	* TODO materials
	+	* hauling from gravitational well: expensive, slow, planet resource limitations
	+	* mining asteroids, moon, ....: space mining technology,planetary resources inc., may materialize in 50-100 years
	+	* TODO construction parts from materials
	+	* 3D printing in space? Nanobot-based 3D printing?
	+	* TODO space welding etc. technology
	+	* TODO robotics control technology
	+	* Space structural maintenance technology (we must be able to keep it together)
	+	* TODO energy sources in space
	+	* TODO protection from flying pebbles and other debris
	+	* TODO high-bandwidth communication
	+	* TODO fully autonomous, adaptive AI command and control (maintenance, navigation, mission execution)
	+	* Human living environment (we must be able to stay there)
	+	* TODO air
	+	* TODO water
	+	* TODO food
	+	* TODO radiation shielding
	+	* TODO artificial gravity technology (only for freestanding station; rotation may be ok but think it through)
	+	* TODO leisure
	+	* very limited space in general, no travel, no outdoors exercise, quite limited range of hobbies, no IRC with Earthlings
	+	* virtual reality? psychological impact?

pasky's wishlist

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-01-17T22:17:55+00:00

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	+	===== pasky's wishlist =====

	+	Things I'd like done - or work on after I retire:
	+
	+	* web browser (most likely chromium fork, firefox is less memory hungry but no e10s or tab unloading and other things that make it slooooow with many tabs):
	+	* that seamlessly blends tabs and bookmarks, as many packrats like me tend to abuse tabs as bookmarks and accumulate hundreds of them
	+	* working and reliable vertical tabs
	+	* "power saving" mode when on battery
	+	* ultimate maps:
	+	* mapy.cz tourist lookalike renderer for openstreetmaps
	+	* googlemaps-compatible API for mapy.cz
	+	* traffic level scraper for googlemaps + overlay for mapy.cz or osm (tos violation)
	+	* photo layer for googlemaps to universal overlay (tos violation)
	+	* linux application-level firewall with interactive gui
	+	* fc: a tool like mc, but single-purpose and streamlined for just choosing filename arguments for commands (e.g. mplayer playlist composition)
	+	* ipython is awesome, but sucks for long-running computations [[https://github.com/ipython/ipython/issues/4140]] (either fix the issue, or create a screen-like frontend)
	+
	+	I also like a lot of [[/user/jenda/challenges\|jenda's ideas]].