Antw: Re: [Preston] Forthcoming Linux meetings

[Michael Bach]

Ho ho ho,
Happy new year everybody!

I won't be back in Preston until Thursday, hence will miss (really
really miss!) the wednesday beer you guys are up to.

About the Presentation I'm going to give in Feb:

I still have to prepare some things for the serial port. However, I
intend to show some hardware that connects to an rs232. That will be a
simple device to bring the serial bit-stream to an 8-bit parallel output
(something I build years ago when I was an elec. eng. undergrad) and a
multimeter to take whatever readings into a computer.
Further will come simple stuff on a parallel port. Programming
individual bits of the parallel output to control led's and relais for
example, then enhancing this by incoroporating the control
registers/pins. I show this this with some led's first and then comes
the robot arm.

In terms of programming all this, there will only be simple C programs. 

have fun,
Mike.


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Michael Bach
Applied Digital Signal and Image Processing Research Centre
University of Central Lancashire
PR1 2HE Preston, UK
Office: +44 1772 893265
Mobile: (UK) +44 793 1158931
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>>> guy.heatley at gmail.com 09.01.06 23.47 >>>
Hey hey! Beer on Weds it is then!
I'm not sure if Mike is back from Deutschland yet...
--
Guy

On 1/9/06, Phil Robinson <phil.robinson at cromwellgames.co.uk> wrote:
> I may be up for a sneaky beer on Wednesday :-) and I'll finally be
able to
> make the meetings early again. :-)) Is Mike's robot arm strong enough
to
> lift a pint? How about a short? We could wire it to a Linux laptop
after the
> meet and do some scientific study.
>
> Have fun,
>
> Phil.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Andrew King" <andrew at key21.co.uk>
> To: "Preston and Lancashire Linux User Group"
<preston at mailman.lug.org.uk>
> Sent: Monday, January 09, 2006 9:26 AM
> Subject: Re: [Preston] Forthcoming Linux meetings
>
>
> > Thanks Guy, Tuesdays are okay for me so see you there.
> >
> > Andrew
> >
> > Guy Heatley wrote:
> >
> >>HNY folks! In all the excitement of Xmas we seem to have missed the
> >>1st week of Jan meeting.
> >>
> >>The general consensus of opinion seem to be (from a posting here
last
> >>month) that the meetings would be better held on the first Tuesday
of
> >>the month, rather than wednesday.
> >>And so was written, and LO! it came to pass.
> >>
> >>Mike Bach has volunteered to host the next meeting and the topic
will
> >>be "Programming the serial port". I'm sure he will post more details
> >>here closer to the event.
> >>Mike has a programmable robotic arm which I feel may feature in the
> >>presentation, although I might be wrong.
> >>(No not his *own* arm: its a discrete and separate unit!)
> >>
> >>So, the meeting will be on Tuesday 7th Feb, and be hosted by Mike,
all
> >>being well.
> >>
> >>PS If anyone would like to meet in the pub on Wednesday this week
for
> >>a sneaky beer, I'd be up for it. Say 9pm in the Greyfriars?
> >>Go on! You know you want to...
> >>;-)
> >>--
> >>Guy
> >>
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> >>personal computer industry, is ending.'
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the free exchange of digital information that has defined the
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