RS485, Communication begins

After a quite long period of inactivity (in these days I’ve still a lot of stuff to do for exams…), I’ve started a closer collaboration with Paolo Pivato, who is working on the T-Mote support.
We just realized that the two device drivers are actually capable of data transmission. Now we need to test reception support, [...]

Searching for RS485

RS485 Communication
It has been decided that the Mindstorms brick will communicate with the Tmote with a RS485 communication interface. On the NXT this interface is situated on the 4th RJ11 port.
In these days I’m trying to find out information on the RS485, since I’m going to develop a serial software protocol. As asserted at wednesday’s [...]

3rd Week results: a new parser scaffold

As the oil parser’s source code is not free software, my new objective is to get an unfettered one.
The OSEK Specification (the website is linked on my blogroll) provides all information necessary to write a parser for OIL, so I’ve started to write a new parser in order to replace the deadly SG.exe.

Uploading tools replacement

The uploading procedure implies the use of the windows executable named runc.exe. This program should be executed under cygwin, so this puts me in the strange situation of running cygwin under wine.