looking forward to the serial port talk. been looking at using this port to control a handset for a cheap r/c car. got it all wired up but never found the technology on windows or linux to make a good control interface. <br>
as i said very interested. <br>catch you guys then.<br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 1/10/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Michael Bach</b> <<a href="mailto:mbach@uclan.ac.uk">mbach@uclan.ac.uk</a>> wrote:
</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Ho ho ho,<br>Happy new year everybody!<br><br>I won't be back in Preston until Thursday, hence will miss (really
<br>really miss!) the wednesday beer you guys are up to.<br><br>About the Presentation I'm going to give in Feb:<br><br>I still have to prepare some things for the serial port. However, I<br>intend to show some hardware that connects to an rs232. That will be a
<br>simple device to bring the serial bit-stream to an 8-bit parallel output<br>(something I build years ago when I was an elec. eng. undergrad) and a<br>multimeter to take whatever readings into a computer.<br>Further will come simple stuff on a parallel port. Programming
<br>individual bits of the parallel output to control led's and relais for<br>example, then enhancing this by incoroporating the control<br>registers/pins. I show this this with some led's first and then comes<br>the robot arm.
<br><br>In terms of programming all this, there will only be simple C programs.<br><br>have fun,<br>Mike.<br><br><br>-------------------------------------<br>Michael Bach<br>Applied Digital Signal and Image Processing Research Centre
<br>University of Central Lancashire<br>PR1 2HE Preston, UK<br>Office: +44 1772 893265<br>Mobile: (UK) +44 793 1158931<br>Mobile: (DE) +49 162 7430906<br>>>> <a href="mailto:guy.heatley@gmail.com">guy.heatley@gmail.com
</a> 09.01.06 23.47 >>><br>Hey hey! Beer on Weds it is then!<br>I'm not sure if Mike is back from Deutschland yet...<br>--<br>Guy<br><br>On 1/9/06, Phil Robinson <<a href="mailto:phil.robinson@cromwellgames.co.uk">
phil.robinson@cromwellgames.co.uk</a>> wrote:<br>> I may be up for a sneaky beer on Wednesday :-) and I'll finally be<br>able to<br>> make the meetings early again. :-)) Is Mike's robot arm strong enough<br>to<br>
> lift a pint? How about a short? We could wire it to a Linux laptop<br>after the<br>> meet and do some scientific study.<br>><br>> Have fun,<br>><br>> Phil.<br>><br>> ----- Original Message -----<br>
> From: "Andrew King" <<a href="mailto:andrew@key21.co.uk">andrew@key21.co.uk</a>><br>> To: "Preston and Lancashire Linux User Group"<br><<a href="mailto:preston@mailman.lug.org.uk">preston@mailman.lug.org.uk
</a>><br>> Sent: Monday, January 09, 2006 9:26 AM<br>> Subject: Re: [Preston] Forthcoming Linux meetings<br>><br>><br>> > Thanks Guy, Tuesdays are okay for me so see you there.<br>> ><br>> > Andrew
<br>> ><br>> > Guy Heatley wrote:<br>> ><br>> >>HNY folks! In all the excitement of Xmas we seem to have missed the<br>> >>1st week of Jan meeting.<br>> >><br>> >>The general consensus of opinion seem to be (from a posting here
<br>last<br>> >>month) that the meetings would be better held on the first Tuesday<br>of<br>> >>the month, rather than wednesday.<br>> >>And so was written, and LO! it came to pass.<br>> >>
<br>> >>Mike Bach has volunteered to host the next meeting and the topic<br>will<br>> >>be "Programming the serial port". I'm sure he will post more details<br>> >>here closer to the event.
<br>> >>Mike has a programmable robotic arm which I feel may feature in the<br>> >>presentation, although I might be wrong.<br>> >>(No not his *own* arm: its a discrete and separate unit!)<br>> >>
<br>> >>So, the meeting will be on Tuesday 7th Feb, and be hosted by Mike,<br>all<br>> >>being well.<br>> >><br>> >>PS If anyone would like to meet in the pub on Wednesday this week<br>
for<br>> >>a sneaky beer, I'd be up for it. Say 9pm in the Greyfriars?<br>> >>Go on! You know you want to...<br>> >>;-)<br>> >>--<br>> >>Guy<br>> >><br>> >>Stand up for freedom: Switch to GNU/Linux.
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