On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 22:07 +0000, Jason Holt wrote: > None at all. I want the board to be as general purpose as possible, without > worrying about doing any high-performance stuff. So that means that even if > the board doesn't have the resolution/latency/capacity to do what you want, I > want to make it easy to pull out the FET and put in a super-high-current > variety, or to hack the serial port command-line interface that runs on the uC > and add commands that do the specific things stepper motors need to do. > > Is this something you're doing for work? Can you tell us what kinds of > things > you do? > > -J
I've worked on a breadboard or two lighting up LEDs, but not much more! :) A while ago I yanked all the non-Linux code out of parapin and renamed that work "linpin" (I can't remember why I did that, it's been almost two years now). As I recall, I also changed the makefile so that it could be built as a shared object (.so). I contacted the author and asked him if he wanted the changes but he didn't seem very interested in the option. If I remember right, the parapin project is now maintained by someone else. I've since written object oriented wrappers for "linpin" in C# that can be used with any .NET language. I've only tested it on Linux and mono (obviously). It seems to work quite well. I just wanted to provide a basic interface to the parallel port that's easy for others to consume. Linux is a nice fit for this kind of project as it makes good use of old 486s. Mono and C# just happen to be the platform of choice for me. That's all, Gabe -------------------- 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
