Brandon Bevan bbevan

sudo nvidia-settings

Set resolution to 1280x720. Underscan by 10-15 to fix resolution.

Arduino on Ubuntu

When I moved over to Ubuntu a few months ago, I was in the middle of an Arduino project involving the LCD display of strings via Python's serial module. On my windows device, the board was accessed via Window's Comport 3 (COM3), however Linux does not use that nomenclature as the serial device software is different.

According to Building Embedded Linux Systems: Concepts, Techniques, Tricks, and Traps by Yaghmour et al., serial devices are "uniformly accessed as terminal devices". Those devices are found under /dev/ttyS0 all the way through /dev/ttyS191 (pg. 73).

The problem is that my Python script bugged out an error upon executing the following code.

import serial
ser=serial.Serial("/dev/ttyS0", 9600) #9600 baud connection to the board via the serial port on /dev/ttyS0

1. Clone your fork:

git clone https://github.com/bbevan/doc-sle.git

2. Add remote from original repository in your forked repository:

cd doc-sle/
git remote add upstream https://github.com/SUSE/doc-sle.git
git fetch upstream

Styling Markdown with Pandoc

The following renders blog.md as CSS stylized HTML.

> pandoc -c pandoc.css -o index.html blog.md

Here's an example CSS file. Save as pandoc.css in your markdown folder.

How to Install Git on openSUSE-leap 15.0

One simple command

sudo zypper install git

Watch what happens...

brandon@linux-3sb5:~> sudo zypper install git

	#--------------------------------------
	# ___ ___ _ ____
	# / _ \/ _ \(_) __/__ __ __
	# / , _/ ___/ /\ \/ _ \/ // /
	# /_/\|_/_/ /_/___/ .__/\_, /
	# /_/ /___/
	#
	# lcd_i2c.py
	# LCD test script using I2C backpack.
	# Supports 16x2 and 20x4 screens.

	class Student:

	def __init__(self):
	self.list = []

	def add_name(self):
	name = input("Student: ")

	self.list.append(name) if name else self.add_name()

	// include the library code:
	#include <LiquidCrystal.h>

	// initialize the library with the numbers of the interface pins
	LiquidCrystal lcd(12, 11, 5, 4, 3, 2);


	void setup()
	{