I've been looking for something simple to make a remote control app for the Toshiba TLP-7xx series digital projectors. They have an RS232C port and the commands are mostly plain text, except for whatever STX (02h) and ETH (03h) are. I assume that's shorthand for Start and End transmission and 02h and 03h are hexadecimal values. Controls could be sent from a command prompt by copying little text files to the serial port, or using COPY CON followed by the command and piping it to the serial port. But how does one type a hexadecimal value in a Windows command prompt??? The return values for ACK and NAK, 06h and 15h could likely be ignored, or used to blink a green or red indicator on the GUI. I'd like to have a tabbed GUI with functions grouped logically, like they are listed in the manual. I've done a GUI design in WX Formbuilder, but all that does is layout the buttons, radio buttons, checkboxes, tabs. Doesn't make a compiled executable that communicates via serial port.
The commands are listed on the 44th and 45th pages of the manual. http://www.projectorsmanual.com/manuals/toshiba/Toshiba_TLP-771U.pdf Why bother with an old 1024x768 projector? 1. It has a document camera (TLP-771U version) to work as an overhead projector. 2. Its original price was almost $10,000 3. I bought it used for only $10. The lamp in it still works. The cheapest bare replacement lamp I can find costs nearly seven times what I paid for the projector. :P I'd love to find a way to hack it to use a super bright white LED in place of the halogen lamp. On Wednesday, October 11, 2017, 3:42:12 PM MDT, John Dammeyer <jo...@autoartisans.com> wrote: > You have to think of LinuxCNC and Machine kit as raw materials that > you use to create a machine controller. There is no way these are > end user facing tools. > > The best example of a product made with these tools is "Path Pilot > > What is needed is an user-facing application along the lines of > path pilot. > > > If MK and LinuxCNC are ever going to "take off" it will need to become > a true "turn key" system. We may well be headed in that direction eventually. For people who have worked in the Windows world they've probably heard of Delphi (Originally Turbo Pascal for Windows). After a bit of a slump it's seen a resurgence with a model that let's one create one code base with different screen sizes and models to compile for PCs, MACs and Android. A Mac is still required to put it onto an iPhone, iPad or iMAC but the basic code is the same. I've written some small LED light control programs that I have running on both Android phones, tablets and PC. With sliders to change colour and intensity. A different selection in a drop down box and the code compiles for one of those targets. I'm over simplifying this but it really is that easy. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
