The executable to configure key servers and other encryption settings is: seahorse-preferences

I got this error:

[ 99%] Building CXX object src/CMakeFiles/heekscad.dir/WrappedCurves.cpp.o
make[2]: *** No rule to make target `/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libXmu.so', needed by `bin/heekscad-0.18.0'. Stop.
make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
[100%] Building CXX object src/CMakeFiles/heekscad.dir/wxImageLoader.cpp.o
/home/markus/heekscad_svn/heekscad-svn/src/TreeCanvas.cpp: In member function ‘void CTreeCanvas::OnLabelLeftDown(HeeksObj*, wxMouseEvent&)’:
/home/markus/heekscad_svn/heekscad-svn/src/TreeCanvas.cpp:523:8: warning: variable ‘recent_first’ set but not used [-Wunused-but-set-variable]
/home/markus/heekscad_svn/heekscad-svn/src/ViewPoint.cpp: In member function ‘int CViewPoint::ChooseBestPlane(int) const’:
/home/markus/heekscad_svn/heekscad-svn/src/ViewPoint.cpp:408:9: warning: variable ‘third_best_dp’ set but not used [-Wunused-but-set-variable]
make[1]: *** [src/CMakeFiles/heekscad.dir/all] Error 2
make: *** [all] Error 2


So I did try to fix this like this:
sudo apt-get install ia32-libs
sudo ln /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libXext.so.6 /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libXext.so
sudo ln /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libX11.so.6 /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libX11.so
sudo ln /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libICE.so.6 /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libICE.so
sudo ln /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libSM.so.6 /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libSM.so
sudo ln /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libXmu.so.6 /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libXmu.so

Now it is (SVN) building

~/heekscad_svn/heekscad-svn/heekscnc-svn $ make
Linking CXX shared library ../bin/libheekscnc.so
/usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libXmu.so when searching for -lXmu
/usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libSM.so when searching for -lSM
/usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libICE.so when searching for -lICE
/usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libX11.so when searching for -lX11
/usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libXext.so when searching for -lXext
[100%] Built target heekscnc
~/heekscad_svn/heekscad-svn/heekscnc-svn $
~/heekscad_svn/heekscad-svn/heekscnc-svn $ cd ..
~/heekscad_svn/heekscad-svn $ make -j 12
[ 3%] Built target tinyxml
[ 3%] Built target translations
[ 17%] Built target heeksintf
Linking CXX executable ../bin/heekscad
/usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libSM.so when searching for -lSM
/usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libICE.so when searching for -lICE
/usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libX11.so when searching for -lX11
/usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libXext.so when searching for -lXext
/usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libXmu.so when searching for -lXmu
/usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libSM.so when searching for -lSM
/usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libICE.so when searching for -lICE
/usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libX11.so when searching for -lX11
/usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libXext.so when searching for -lXext
[100%] Built target heekscad


After doing
make package
and installing the package:
sudo dpkg -i heekscad_beta-0.18.0_amd64.deb

I can type
heekscad and it looks like it works… well I just found out not all is working…

so I started playing with compiler switches like and was using the git version (but I copied libarea stuff from svn):
-m64
-arch x86_64

and a lot of this
make clean
cmake .
make -j12

and at one point it i was complaining about i386 stuff, so I copied the files over:

sudo cp /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXext.so /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libXext.so
sudo cp /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libX11.so /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libX11.so
sudo cp /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libICE.so /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libICE.so
sudo cp /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libSM.so /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libSM.so
sudo cp /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXmu.so /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libXmu.so

I’m not sure if this is a bug in linux mint, cmake or heekscad?

However it’s working now and producing g-code 🙂

This is not as easy as espeak with English… and it looks like Japanes is not as easy as English. However here is what I had done:

download

• http://packages.debian.org/wheezy/open-jtalk
• libhtsengine1_1.06-1_amd64.deb
• open-jtalk-mecab-naist-jdic_1.05-1_all.deb
• open-jtalk_1.05-1_amd64.deb
• hts-voice-nitech-jp-atr503-m001_1.04-1_all.deb
• hts-voice-mei_1.1+dfsg-1_all.deb

found the right commands
I found a script to use open_jtalk on this page http://d.hatena.ne.jp/hecomi/20120221/1329838707

Here is my version modified version of the script:
~/bin/jspeak.sh

#/bin/sh
case "$1" in
1) echo "mei_angry"
VOICE=/usr/share/hts-voice/mei_angry
;;
2) echo "mei_bashful"
VOICE=/usr/share/hts-voice/mei_bashful
;;
3) echo "mei_happy"
VOICE=/usr/share/hts-voice/mei_happy
;;
4) echo "mei_normal"
VOICE=/usr/share/hts-voice/mei_normal
;;
5) echo "mei_sad"
VOICE=/usr/share/hts-voice/mei_sad
;;
*) echo "nitech-jp-atr503-m001"
VOICE=/usr/share/hts-voice/nitech-jp-atr503-m001
;;
esac
open_jtalk $2 \
-td $VOICE/tree-dur.inf \
-tf $VOICE/tree-lf0.inf \
-tm $VOICE/tree-mgc.inf \
-md $VOICE/dur.pdf \
-mf $VOICE/lf0.pdf \
-mm $VOICE/mgc.pdf \
-df $VOICE/lf0.win1 \
-df $VOICE/lf0.win2 \
-df $VOICE/lf0.win3 \
-dm $VOICE/mgc.win1 \
-dm $VOICE/mgc.win2 \
-dm $VOICE/mgc.win3 \
-ef $VOICE/tree-gv-lf0.inf \
-em $VOICE/tree-gv-mgc.inf \
-cf $VOICE/gv-lf0.pdf \
-cm $VOICE/gv-mgc.pdf \
-k $VOICE/gv-switch.inf \
-x /var/lib/mecab/dic/open-jtalk/naist-jdic/ \
-s 48000 \
-p 240 \
-a 0.58 \
-u 0.5 \
-jm 0.7 \
-jf 0.5 \
-l \
-z 48000 \
-ow ~/jpout.wav \
-ot ~/jpout.log
play ~/jpout.wav --norm


female voice
$ ~/bin/jpspeak.sh 2 jp.txt
male voice
$ ~/bin/jpspeak.sh 0 jp.txt

I use Geany text editor in Gnome to modify text files (it is very important that the encoding is set the EUC-JP or you get this error: WARNING: text2mecab() in text2mecab.c: Wrong character.) file and I configured a command in Geany to call the script, the only thing I need to do it to type something in Japanese and press F8 for male or F9 for female and it talks.

To install the Japanese keyboard in Ubuntu/Mint you need to go to Administration->Language Support and install Japanese and set input method to IBus (on mint you also need to install ibus). Under System->Keyboard Input Methods you will need to configure the short cut and add Japanese to the list. There are YouTube videos and lots of forum post that explain this in great detail.

Looks like I need to rethink my RF Ground. I just found out it’s non existent in my case… This is more a note to my self to install this soon and report back here with the solution.

My old old PC died on me (last 5 years served as IPCOP router)… I think the heat past shifted over time and shorted out some CPU memory chip.

1 week ago I didn’t know what FPGAs are, but yesterday I received my XuLA 50 board and I started with this great tutorial.

I got my LED to blink first because I had some GLIB problems and I was not able to simulate the design. But I found if I copy some lib files from my system over the the ISE install and do some kind of clean all generated project files it solved the issue…

I was in this (../Xilinx/13.2/ISE_DS/ISE/lib/lin64) directory and I copied and did override libstdc++ with this command: cp /usr/lib32/libstdc++.so.6.0.14 libstdc++.so (all three)

It would be nice if I could run the XSTOOLS also under Ubuntu, but it will not work with Wine. Right now I use a VM. I think there was a Linux download, but the link is broken.

Looks like there are a lot of open source SDR related things on the web. But the more powerful SDR hardware is expensive. The USRP is part of the GNU Radio project and it is $700 another radio with this price tag is the QS1R.

Now the question is, would it be possible to connect some of the components found in those devices modular together.

Looks like the LTC2208 is used in a lot of projects like this for ADC, the price for this hardware alone is $70 to $160 depending on the version and pieces. I’m not sure if there is a breakout board for this chip?

Another component found is a FPGA,  the XuLA project has  FPGAs between $39 (50,000), $79 (200,000)and $200 (1,000,000). VHDL is required to use the FPGA, I did order a $39 version – but I never used FPGAs and VHDL. I found this tutorial I will may use to learn something new.

A micro controller is also found on those board.

A onboard DAC could also be used to listen directly.

Gigabit Ethernet, USB or some other fast method to transfer all the data to the PC. Could SATA be used? Or firewire?