Homebrew PCBs

On Friday 16 July 2004 02:25 pm, Dave Hylands wrote:

> I use Microsoft FrontPage for some stuff
> (http://www.vancouverroboticsclub.org/)

I use no m$ stuff here at all if I can possibly avoid it.  Easier on 
linux...  :-)

> For my personal web site: Http://www.DaveHylands.com/ I wrote a perl
> script which parses a text file containing stuff like this:
>
> ---- Start of snippet ----
> Title: Stinger
>    Stinger is my first attempt at building a low profile mini-sumo. I
> would say that
>    it was successful, as Stinger came in 2nd place at the
>    <a href="http://www.robotgames.com/">Western Canadian Robot Games</a>
> in Calgary.
>
> Image: 01-Base.jpg      Base
>      The Base is machined out of PVC. I happened to have some on hand
> and decided
>     to try it out. The notch in the front was a goof where I didn't have
> the material
>     clamped tightly enough during machining. The big holes in the middle
> are to allow
>     air cooling of the motor drivers and CPU board.
> ---- End of snippet ----

Perl is something I need to get going with,  sometime soon.

> You can see the result of the above by looking here:
> http://www.DaveHylands.com/Robotics/Stinger/
>
> And you can see the entire text file that made the set of pages here:
> http://www.DaveHylands.com/Robotics/Stinger/Pages.txt
> You'll probably need to use wget or something similar to download it and
> preserve the line endings.

Taking that as an invitation,  wget is fetching away as I type this.  :-)

> It uses a package called ImageMagick http://www.imagemagick.org/ to
> downsample my full sized photos and create 50% versions and thumbnails.

Good package,  from what I understand,  and I have it on hand here,  but for 
that sort of thing I use The Gimp.

> I use cygwin under Windows and there are references to a couple of
> cygwin apps in the script as well (cp, cmp, cygpath, mkdir)
>
> I've always meant to write up something that describes how it works and
> make the script available on my web site, but I haven't done so yet. In
> the meantime, I'd be happy to send you the script along with some
> samples and stuff.

I wouldn't mind seeing that,  if wget doesn't fetch it.  Feel free to pass it 
along to my email,  if you don't mind.