On Thu, 2020-03-05 at 16:14 +0100, Georges Khaznadar wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Georges Khaznadar <georg...@debian.org> > > * Package name : phoenix-firmware > Version : 4.6.1 > Upstream Author : Ajith Kumar B.P. <bpaj...@gmail.com> > * URL : http://expeyes.in > * License : GPL-3.0+ > Programming Lang: C for AVR > Description : firmware necessary for boxes issued by project PHOENIX
I think this is a poor choice of name, considering that Phoenix Technologies previously objected to Mozilla Phoenix (original name of Firefox) and that "firmware" is very much their core competency. Ben. > The project PHOENIX, created by Ajith Kumar, from Inter-University > Accelerator Centre (IUAC) in New Delhi, is aimed at creating > “Physics with Home-made Equipment and Innovative Experiments” (Phoenix). > The popular boxes distributed by this projet are named expeyes, kuttypy, > microhope. Each of them is based on a microcontroller, and provide their > unique features thanks to the microcode burnt into those microcontrollers. > More information is available at https://expeyes.wordpress.com/phoenix/ > This package provides the source and the binary formats for that firmware. > > I shall keep on maintaining packages expeyes and phoenix-firmware as > parts of my daily job (I do use this hardware to teach students). > > Source package can be found at https://salsa.debian.org/georgesk/phoenix- > firmware -- Ben Hutchings Knowledge is power. France is bacon.
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