Logbook of Captain Emiliano Bruni

Field day of the May 30, 2010 on the occasion of ' OpenDay at the National Laboratories of Gran Sasso , where a whole day, the laboratories were open to the public.

I, along with friends of Telug , were present outside the auditorium, with a couple of banquet on which we showed to the interested spectators, the Linux operating system and some open source solutions. Two banks, our computers with many different Linux distributions from Mandriva to Ubuntu to Mac Maury strictly with all open source software. At a banquet in part, a couple of my achievements in the plexiglass and the Gran Sasso laboratory in addition to the ubiquitous TUX and a couple of cards MikroTik which, within an embedded Linux operating system that we use as a firewall, router and the radio.

Great interest among the smallest were the projections, one every hour of cartoon Big Buck Bunny fully realized following the open source philosophy, led by Maury which also showed KStars , the excellent open source planetarium.

Claudio showed and explained Joomla the best CMS currently on the square, loaded, for the occasion on his laptop.

and I showed how to modify the Wiimotion for use as sensors for virtual reality applications . Public enthusiasm for this application where the phrase most frequently was: "That's cool.

The great Hugh instead gave us a hand across the organization and management of the event, thanks. And of course, my thanks go to all the staff of LNGS and in particular to Stefano Stal, without which our participation was not possible.

Thank you all for making it possible this little event in dell'OpenDay. You missed it? Do not worry, next year we will be there with new and amazing achievements.

More impressions on the event can be found in Article written by Maury , you can see his photos and my flickr.

Sunday, May 30 the National Laboratories of Gran Sasso will be open to the public at the now traditional OpenDay .

I'll be there along with a delegation TeLUG to show to the public, the benefits of the Linux operating system and some technological goodies.

Sunday If you have nothing to do, come visit us for a day of cultural experiments and discoveries.

Among the animation program:

• Construction objects in balance - Children and adults create structures that must be in perfect balance on a single point of support. It turns out some of the laws of static equilibrium associated with the performance of circus artists.
• Construction tornado in a bottle - a little water and two bottles to create a small tornado pocket and simulate one of the most violent weather phenomena in nature
• Building fire-rings - The challenge to make smoke rings for everyone. with cans and balloons elastic pocket machines are built to create smoke rings.
• The giant whirlpool - A Plexiglas cylinder mounted on a metal base and has a rotating blade inside is filled with water up to six feet. The shovel can be put in rotation by the public and create a giant whirlpool.
• Shoot-rings giants - some large cardboard boxes turn into machines smoke rings useful to introduce some basic concepts related to the turmoil.
• Science in the clouds - short demonstration lasting 20 minutes at the most appropriate one another in the afternoon. Demonstrations on atmospheric phenomena in fog tornado bottled up in the smoke rings of volcanoes.
• UP - Walking for children with harness and some helium balloon to help them overcome the force of gravity.

If you're one of the lucky ones, you can also book a visit to the underground laboratories under the Gran Sasso tunnel A24.