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CHDK: hacking my camera

Friday, December 5th, 2008

I have a Canon A-640 that I rarely use, partially because it’s flash is broken. Now I found a new use for it, a hackable device :D

With CHDK (Canon Hack Development Kit) I can write my own scripts (in LUA or BASIC) to control the camera functions. It also enables new features and improve old ones. Really nice free software project :)

And for hackers, it’s well documented (including the source-code). I’ll try it better and post some results here (with pictures and some code I hope :) )

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FLISOL 2008 in São Paulo

Thursday, April 24th, 2008

Time to install free software :-)

FLISOL, the Latin-America Free Software Installfest (Festival Latinoamericano de Instalação de SOftware Livre) will happend this Saturday, 04/26, simultaneously in more than 20 countries in Latin America.

In São Paulo it will be held at FATEC Zona Sul, R. Frederico Grotte, 353 – Jd São Luís.

Our schedule:

Installfest

09:00 – 18:00

Talks:

10:00 – 12:00
Free Software and Security
Rodrigo Montoro

Workshops

09:00 – 11:00
Desenvolvendo em C com GTK
Alex Marcio Ribeiro Nunes

13:00 – 16:00
Shell Script
Edegar C. Berlezzi

More information at http://www.flisol.org.br (portuguese) and http://installfest.info/ (spanish and portuguese).

If you live in São Paulo, I hope to see you there :-)

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