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-Manually add the udev rules from http://oozie.fm.interia.pl/src/huawei.tar.bz2

- compile huaweiAktBbo.c from this bitbake recipe and install it (see http://www.kanoistika.sk/bobovsky/archiv/umts/ )

- Attach the device

- modprobe usbserial vendor=0×12d1 product=0×1003

- If necessary compile execute huaweiAktBbo (it doesnt hurt to run it always)

With Ubuntu 9.10 there are several changes needed to get a Angstrom 2007.12 bitbake target to compile.

Downgrade gcc to 4.2 (sudo ln -sf /usr/bin/gcc-4.2 /usr/bin/gcc)
You might need to install gcc-4.2
(You can change back to gcc 4.4 afterwards)

Link sh to bash (sudo dpkg-reconfigure dash, choose ‘no’)

The build will fail on unifdef.c a couple of times. Each time the downloaded file needs to be patched thus:

1- tmp/work/i686-linux/unifdef-native-2.6.18+git-r0/unifdef.c
2- tmp/work/armv5teb-angstrom-linux-gnueabi/linux-libc-headers-2.6.20-r8/linux-2.6.20/scripts/unifdef.c

Open unifdef.c and Replace getline( with parseline(
(name clash)

I’m working on the sound reactive element of Make a bigger splash!

I’ve incorporated two measurement microphones (thanks Dennis!) -one in the atrium with the installation (its actually hanging within the sculpture), and one in the pool itself. These will support the two seperate modes of animating the installation.

In order to design the interaction, I’ve set up a server to receive the audio from the mics and stream it over wi-fi using pds netsend~/netreceive~ objects.

Walking around the building wearing headphones and listening to this, I had one of those revalation moments that make being a techno-artist worthwhile. It was just like I was crawling around inside my own head..

Work on rigging Make a bigger splash! continues at Claremorris leisure centre.

The installation has 35 neon tubes in all, and will feature 2 types of sound-activated animation of the 3D neon drawing.

The structure has to support 200kgs of transformers, and its 8m in the air.

Phew.