[Emc-developers] modbus cleanup

2013-06-03 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
The current modbus situation in master works, but is slightly wonky. We have four programs that use modbus, and they use three separate modbus implementations: gs2_vfd uses an old version of libmodbus that we forked into our repo in 2008 and then applied some bugfixes to over the year

[Emc-developers] Next Lego Mindstorms will run Linux

2013-06-03 Thread Scott Hasse
I just saw this and thought it was interesting: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lego_Mindstorms_EV3 "The biggest change from the NXT to EV3 series is the technology improvement of the programmable brick. The main processor of the NXT was an ARM7 -based microcontrol