okay I can finally show off these things- Sun SPOTs, weird little java on metal microcontrollers from 2005/2006!

[penny@eldritch.cafe]

okay I can finally show off these things- Sun SPOTs, weird little java on metal microcontrollers from 2005/2006!

http://nug.only9fans.com/penny/SunSPOTs/

[doraii@furry.engineer]

@penny S... S... S... SUN SPOTS!?

[penny@eldritch.cafe]

@doraii now you know where they got the name! /s

[penny@eldritch.cafe]

Lots of cool demos on them, here’s a telemetry demo with a host app

[penny@eldritch.cafe]

and Java doesn’t mind running in simple terminals so I can can use tribblix over ssh and work with the spots without using the terminal emulator

And tribblix is nice and modern and I can use sshfs and build a namespace so I can edit files on 9 and compile/deploy with tribblix

[notptr@social.cyberia9.org]

@penny@eldritch.cafe do you issue commands over ssh?

[penny@eldritch.cafe]

@notptr yeah I ssh in load my .profile and then do rc -i (tribblix actually ships plan9port !)

[penny@eldritch.cafe]

@notptr and you’ll find things very convenient if you mount unix paths exactly as they are on the target host and start a subrio/sublola, e.g. file completion works

[notptr@social.cyberia9.org]

@penny@eldritch.cafe ok cool

[lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me]

@penny How the heck am I only discovering those now…

[penny@eldritch.cafe]

@lanodan haha probably cause they were $500 and most schools preferred mindstorms

[me_@sueden.social]

@penny Ah, that's a name I haven't heard for a long time, nice!