[AccessD] Raspbian in a VM

Arthur Fuller fuller.artful at gmail.com
Sun Dec 31 06:57:34 CST 2017


To paraphrase Jared Lanier, musical instruments rank high in terms of
complexity of construction. Saxes are complex, to be sure, but violins are
deceptively simple. Adolphe Sax became famous for the saxophone, but also
invented several other instruments.

A.

On Sat, Dec 30, 2017 at 10:40 PM, John Colby <jwcolby at gmail.com> wrote:

> I am about to launch into a rebuild of several saxophones. Saxophones are
> very complicated mechanically, and adjusting them is done by felts and
> corks to regulate how far the pad cups move (and to dampen clicking and
> clacking)  as keys open and close the tone holes.  What I want to do on one
> of them is strip off all of the complicated keys and hinges and tubes, and
> replace all that crap with electro-mechanically driven actuators opening
> and closing the pad cups when keys are pressed.  Driven by a Raspberry Pi
> or similar SBC.  The result would be a real saxophone, but "fly by wire"
> instead of purely mechanical.  Adolph Sax will be turning over in his grave
> I am sure. I have an early 50s Martin Indiana that I bought on Ebay for
> $200 that is my intended guinea pig.
>
> As I mentioned, there have been thousands, perhaps tens of thousands (I
> haven't really counted) of Access related emails just in the month of
> December alone, and I just decided that the list could use a break from the
> tedium of all this non-stop Access drivel.
>
> ;)
>
> On 12/30/2017 9:58 PM, Bill Benson wrote:
>
>> And this post belongs on Access - D because?
>>
>> :)
>>
>> On Dec 30, 2017 1:14 PM, "John Colby" <jwcolby at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I installed Raspbian in a Virtual box on my Windows 10 desktop. Took about
>>> an hour start to finish.
>>>
>>> https://grantwinney.com/how-to-create-a-raspberry-pi-virtual
>>> -machine-vm-in-virtualbox/
>>>
>>> I actually have several early Raspberry Pi machines, just need to find
>>> them, set up a little workstation keyboard / mouse / monitor for them
>>> etc.
>>> Kinda short on space where I am now.  I had them running a couple of
>>> years
>>> ago.  Also a BeagleBone black and a couple of Odroids IIRC.  All in a box
>>> somewhere.
>>>
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