On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 9:12 AM, Philip Hands <p...@hands.com> wrote: > Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <l...@lkcl.net> writes:
>> yep he recommended to the arduino package maintainer that the actual >> core parts not be glommed together with a runtime and IDE and >> everything else. > > Well, I reacted badly to the Java UI (because it was ludicrously broken > under tiling window managers -- ohh that's right. you use xmonad. written in 1200 lines of haskell if i recall. fricking awesome and scary at the same time :) > the menu required you to click the > screen elsewhere to get anywhere, and my screen wasn't wide enough to > click anything on the sub-menus ;-) ), and noticed that it was actually > possible to use a Makefile, and that there were several Makefiles in > circulation, so chose what looked to be the most maintained one, and > suggested that the author pick up the nice features in the other ones, > and then stuck that together as the arduino-core package. cool! yyyeah... have you noticed btw that the way they do "finding of libraries" is... to indiscriminately extend make's "VPATH". all and any headers, object files, modules, executables... *all* of those are searched for in *every single one* of the paths. if you happen to have the same filename somewhere anywhere in those paths, you're hosed. it's a total global namespace .... nightmare. nnnngh! whyyyy do they doo thiiiiis! > As it happens, I fired up my arduino for the first time since doing the > arduino-core uploads last week -- My 5 year old daughter and I are > knocking up something to drive some LEDs and a motor in order to make > her IKEA kitchen have a working turntable in the microwave, and a blue > LED to simulate water coming out of the tap, etc. ha, cool! yeah i bought something called a "Sparki" robot for me and lilyana to play with. which was for about... 2 days. the GUI on that however i have to say is extremely cool. it's block-based like a jigsaw, and it auto-generates actual code which you can then look at to see if it does what you expected. >> http://reprap.org/wiki/RD3D/1.0 > > Cool :-) yeah. just added a 4th MOSFET (2 fans, 1 extruder, 1 heater or 2 extruders, 1 fan, 1 heater), an I2C EEPROM, and whoops added in a 4th endstop (X, Y, Z, Z-probe - Z-probe veeery important if you want to do auto-bed-levelling... *sigh*...) but i have to say, it is completely insane that i've been driven to design and have manufactured my own 3D printing PCB. so i had to add that last section in order to explain it - mostly it's for the crowd-funding people who might be going, "wtf???" > BTW you called it 'R3D3' in the penultimate paragraph. ah good call, thx phil. l. l. _______________________________________________ arm-netbook mailing list arm-netbook@lists.phcomp.co.uk http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook Send large attachments to arm-netb...@files.phcomp.co.uk