[nylug-talk] Linux and small operating areas

[Gregg Levine]

On Dec 6, 2007 1:34 AM, Chris Knadle <Chris.Knadle at coredump.us> wrote:
> On Wednesday 05 December 2007, Gregg Levine wrote:
> > Not so long ago, I bought a book on Linux and robotics. Its purpose
> > was to help me sort out how to apply the methods behind how Linux does
> > its thing on computer hardware to the outside world, that is
> > controlling other external logic. Part of that problem is that the
> > ability to have Linux manage a robot, is still covered in scarce
> > information. (There's not much out there!)
>
>    http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Coffee.html
>
>    No, really.  It sounds like a joke, but read it before you dismiss it.
> Especially section 3, which covers how to connect certain kinds of hardware
> to the parallel port.  You can probably find a driver to do what you want,
> but if you can't find it you could always try to make it.
>
>    -- Chris
>
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>
> Chris Knadle
> Chris.Knadle at coredump.us
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Hello!
To answer both of you, Chris, I've read that HOWTO before. And it is
an interesting one in fact. I'll probably read it again.

To answer you Ormund, I'm not building a robot. That book was chosen
because it discussed using Linux as the host OS for building and
running one. I chose it because it would, and it does, contain
information for controlling hardware that way. I shall probably take a
look at those links.

-- 
Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com
"This signature was once found posting rude
 messages in English in the Moscow subway."