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Bug#953175: ITP: phoenix-firmware -- firmware necessary for boxes issued by project PHOENIX



On Thu, 2020-03-05 at 16:14 +0100, Georges Khaznadar wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: Georges Khaznadar <georgesk@debian.org>
> 
> * Package name    : phoenix-firmware
>   Version         : 4.6.1
>   Upstream Author : Ajith Kumar B.P. <bpajith@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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