Jason,
This seems like an incredibly useful project idea. I hope that you get a chance to present. I would come and I don't belong to UUG.
I have a friend that asked if I could get a specialized printing press to work. I looked at the custom job that someone else had done with no schematics and threw up my hands. With something like this, I could scrap most of the controller display components and work with the devices directly. Any reason why it could not control a stepper motor controller?
-Al
Jason Holt wrote:
Here's a project I've been working on recently:
http://c3po.cs.byu.edu/~jason/wiki/index.php/UniversalIO
This semester I'm going to design a board (which I can then get produced in whatever quantity everyone wants) that should make it easy for others, especially programmers, to build electronic gadgets using a microcontroller or parpin interface from their Linux system.
In the spirit of free software, it's not a monemaking project for me, although it has that potential. Mostly I just want to make it easy for my buddies (and others like them) to build the gadgets they want to without needing a EE degree.
So as a UUG presentation, I could demonstrate how to use the board to build fan and motor controllers, analog meters which display phase of the moon or the temperature (CPU or Beijing) and other such gadgets quickly and easily using my GadgetBoard and then control them using scripts on a Linux box.
-J
--------------------
BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/
The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their
author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. ___________________________________________________________________
List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
-- Al Byers Automation Groups Inc 801.400.5111 http://www.automationgroups.com [EMAIL PROTECTED]
We're "Open for Business" (http://www.ofbiz.org) - the leader in Java-based Web services development tools
--------------------
BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/
The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their
author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. ___________________________________________________________________
List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
