Need topic for tomorrow!

[Pih Lung Pang]

Sounds great. I will be there, too.

Pih Lung


On 8/6/08, alexanderhenry at cox.net <alexanderhenry at cox.net> wrote:
>
>
> bah I made a mistake.  Here at work I just found the same kind of board I
> have at home.  By default it only comes with 2 USB's and an ethernet jack,
> and an SD card slot.  The dev kit has a daughter card which gives you RS232,
> and if you want more you have to wire up the DIO's yourself.
>
> Still gives us a lot of potential to occupy at least an hour, though, it's
> just a matter of with what kind of material.  I'll report back here before
> 9pm tonight.
>
>
> ---- alexanderhenry at cox.net wrote:
> > LOL, thought I made this clear...  I haven't done anything with the
> board, I don't know about drivers and 232's.  I have worked much with a
> sister-product to this board, mostly administration of a new Linux system
> and developing in CGI-C on it.  There should be a default busybox install on
> it from the factory.   I could come in early so we could slap something
> together, making sure I can boot the board, minicom in, and maaaaybe make
> sure a cross-compiler works from my laptop (it's an iBook G4!), tonight.
> >
> > Given this, what could we present?  Make an appliance that makes two
> lights blink from the USB's?  It would cover the basics of what busybox and
> cross compiling and drivers are about.
> >
> >
> >
> > > That would be very a very good topic.  If you bring the hardware, are
> > > you going to demo it?  Would you like to present it?
> > >
> > > On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 11:42 AM,  <alexanderhenry at cox.net> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Embedded Linux howto?  Device drivers and bit-banging on RS-232/485?
> > > >
> > > > I'm kinda thinking only of what I'd like to learn myself as well as
> burdening Alan with that suggestion, so I'm hoping there are other
> presenters as well as good interest.
> > > >
> > > > I have a single-board ARM with dev toolkit that has been sitting on a
> shelf forever...  It's got USB, ethernet, and RS485 ports.  At least I could
> bring that to the table, if that's at all practical.  If I know by today's
> end that this could be used I'll at least see if I can boot and minicom into
> it tonight.
> > > >
> > > > If anyone has a simple device that can be wired to a 5V signal or COM
> port or USB, that could give us some direction.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > ---- Alan Dayley <adayley at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >> We have a Devel meeting scheduled for tomorrow but I have not
> rustled
> > > >> up a topic yet.  Does anyone have a topic they'd like to suggest or,
> > > >> better yet, present?
> > > >>
> > > >> Alan
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