Innovation Science

Innovation Science's network has fallen as a result of a faulty node, and we are unable to work on it at the moment due to the fact that we are currently working remote. https://twitter.com/InnovationInc_/status/1596534972420014080?s=20&t=BX6fCWGSgrAhAJPcFxZKiw

Finally! What changed?! Unfortunately, not very much. Some changes have been made under the hood to make it more stable, and we moved to a different box to run the FTP server, but it has remained largely the same. Why was Wait Then???? Moving, mostly. Other things also needed set up, and, of course, lack of motivation. But Wait, I still Have Plans! Fun fact: The Collective is really a single hard drive that I got second hand! That's terrifying! So, instead of praying to the physical media gods that it won't crash, I have decided to invest in some M-Discs. This will preserve data for around 900 years longer than I'll be alive, so I won't have to worry about that any time soon. I'm also going to be looking into expanding our storage so we can continue collecting data. Sorry for the Short Blog! I'm really tired. I'll update this blog post or make a new one with more information on my future plans for The Collective.

Updates I'm baaaaack! Let's Catch Up I finally decided to pick up this project yet again and, with some better soldering skills (and tools! Pinecil is great!) under my belt, I successfully flashed  Larry's SRXE Bootloader  to a board and fixed the UART connection, which means that I can now develop my very own firmware for the Smart Response XE! Well, by start, I really mean that I've already started, and it's really starting to take shape. Care For A Demo? By the way, if you're curious as to what Innonet is, I'll talk about it briefly in this blog post, and more information on it will come soon ™. The firmware will be uploaded to a  GitHub repository  in a preview state by the time this blog post releases. What Exactly is Done so Far? So far, the UI is about 70% done (most of it works, need to implement other dropdown menus and fix some bugs). If you have a keen eye, you will notice the header said DremXE, as opposed to the original name (which was Dremduin...

IG... What? Innovation Science Internal Git System (IGS) is my brand new Gitea server. It's the new home for my projects, like DremDOS, DremJS, and DremOS (whenever that'll be worked on ;)). It's public to access and view, but contributing is somewhat locked down. See the "Some Questions you may Ask" section for more information on that. I'm still working out some kinks in the system, and some pages still have yet to be customized, but for the most part it is fully functional from this point forward. Why Move From Github? I thought it'd be fun. To be serious, I like to own my own data, and I've been "mildly inconvenienced" by Github more than a few times. What they do over there is amazing, and I sincerely doubt that I'll stop using it entirely, but I just think it's time to move on. I also prefer that the services and applications I use to be open source, which Gitea is. Some Questions you may Ask Can I Create my own Repos and Contri...

The Tiny Computer of Your Dreams Note: I'm writing this on my phone so no headers and decent lists and stuff. I'll fix it later eventually probably. T oday I learned about a portable device called the SMART Response XE. Basically, it used to be an expensive unit to let teachers answer questions because it is too hard to raise hands (OK more for testing). Now that Chromebooks exist, they are basically useless, so you can get them for insanely cheap on eBay. This device, however, is basically an Arduino. Bundle it with a 2.4GHz transceiver, a screen, and a keyboard, and you have yourself one of the most amazing little bits of kit that are basically begging to be hacked. Anyway, I bought a lot of 5 functional units on eBay as well as 2 CP2102 serial adapters and 50 5x2 pin headers on Amazon (I only wanted a couple but whatever). It also has 128K of flash(?) so I have plenty of room to play with. Some madlad  wrote a support library for it  so I have almost all the previous functi...

This Time It's Bad The filesystem driver for COSMOS is, as we all know, very unstable. However, it's come to the point where not even the user can manually create directories or files. As such, I have to halt DremDOS development once again for a while. Once the filesystem driver is more stable, I can continue. I might push what I have now to the repository, but don't count on it. Other Projects to Get Excited About Luckily, DremDOS isn't my only project I'm working on right now. I will start posting periodic updates for my other projects such as DremJS, OTNServer, and a silly new Linux distribution that will use DremJS instead of a traditional window manager (more on this later). Don't expect a weekly update, though, as I've been too busy to program for often days at a time. The Future of DremJS So far, I have a roadmap for DremJS leading up to 0.2.0b. There are many fun little (and big) features to play with in the next 3 updates! Some of these features are...