Re: [9fans] Maybe a weird Plan 9 project.

2011-08-01 Thread EBo
Joseph, That would be Ron, not I -- yet anyway, and it will be some time before I can break out any time to play with this... But it looks like Ron has some pointers. On Tue, 2 Aug 2011 00:50:39 -0400, Joseph Stewart wrote: Hey Ron/EBo, Do y'all have any libixp examples you could share? -

Re: [9fans] Maybe a weird Plan 9 project.

2011-08-01 Thread ron minnich
There is server and client code in the repo. We've been using it for some time now at sandia and other places. Writing a synthetic to work for libixp is pretty easy. ron

Re: [9fans] Maybe a weird Plan 9 project.

2011-08-01 Thread Joseph Stewart
Hey Ron/EBo, Do y'all have any libixp examples you could share? -j On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 6:12 PM, ron minnich wrote: > I'm still a big fan of libixp. It's written in a way that I feel is a > good fit if you're used to Plan 9 C style. I've made a number of uses > of it. > > ron > >

Re: [9fans] Maybe a weird Plan 9 project.

2011-07-31 Thread smiley
erik quanstrom writes: >> Issuing RPCs from Emacs is really not that bad if you can stomach elisp. > > in other words, it's a hateful experience that will leave your > soul as dark and twisted as an urskek's. Awh, come on. elisp is fine. The fact that the behavior of variables and functions ke

Re: [9fans] Maybe a weird Plan 9 project.

2011-07-31 Thread EBo
On Sun, 31 Jul 2011 09:26:16 -0400, erik quanstrom wrote: Issuing RPCs from Emacs is really not that bad if you can stomach elisp. in other words, it's a hateful experience that will leave your soul as dark and twisted as an urskek's. Sometimes you just cannot help watching the train wreck...

Re: [9fans] Maybe a weird Plan 9 project.

2011-07-31 Thread erik quanstrom
> Issuing RPCs from Emacs is really not that bad if you can stomach elisp. in other words, it's a hateful experience that will leave your soul as dark and twisted as an urskek's. ;-) - erik

Re: [9fans] Maybe a weird Plan 9 project.

2011-07-30 Thread EBo
On Sat, 30 Jul 2011 19:38:55 +, smi...@icebubble.org wrote: I was thinking about writing 9P client/servers for Arduino. Developing for Arduino is SURPRISINGLY easy--at least on Linux--you just install the gcc avr cross-compiler and avrdude, untar the Arduino library source, tweak the Makefi

Re: [9fans] Maybe a weird Plan 9 project.

2011-07-30 Thread EBo
On Sat, 30 Jul 2011 15:12:04 -0700, ron minnich wrote: I'm still a big fan of libixp. It's written in a way that I feel is a good fit if you're used to Plan 9 C style. I've made a number of uses of it. Thanks Ron for the pointer. I'll take a look at it later since it did not build out of the

Re: [9fans] Maybe a weird Plan 9 project.

2011-07-30 Thread ron minnich
I'm still a big fan of libixp. It's written in a way that I feel is a good fit if you're used to Plan 9 C style. I've made a number of uses of it. ron

Re: [9fans] Maybe a weird Plan 9 project.

2011-07-30 Thread Bakul Shah
On Sat, 30 Jul 2011 12:08:48 CDT Jack wrote: > I tried to get into x10 stuff about a year ago but I got the impression > that it was obsoleted by infineon and others... Do they still make/sell > the cm11? I only have the USB box that also takes wireless commands. x10 sells the CM15A (check

Re: [9fans] Maybe a weird Plan 9 project.

2011-07-30 Thread smiley
EBo writes: > If you do get a 9p stack working on the Arduino let me know. If/when > you do I'll offer to contribute some stepper code that properly deals > with motor accel/decel, speed limiting, etc. I may even port a > runtime polymorphic RS274* (g-code) interpreter I wrote a decade ago > fo

Re: [9fans] Maybe a weird Plan 9 project.

2011-07-30 Thread Jack
On 7/29/2011 3:34 PM, Francisco J Ballesteros wrote: We had an x10fs for a serial cm11. Might be even in sources. I tried to get into x10 stuff about a year ago but I got the impression that it was obsoleted by infineon and others... Do they still make/sell the cm11? I only have the USB box t

Re: [9fans] Maybe a weird Plan 9 project.

2011-07-30 Thread EBo
On Sat, 30 Jul 2011 11:34:39 +0200, Francisco J Ballesteros wrote: /n/sources/contrib/nemo/x10.tar It's been out of server for some time now, which means you might have to change some bits to make it compile with the distribution as it is today. I have not compiled it for a long time now. than

Re: [9fans] Maybe a weird Plan 9 project.

2011-07-30 Thread Francisco J Ballesteros
/n/sources/contrib/nemo/x10.tar It's been out of server for some time now, which means you might have to change some bits to make it compile with the distribution as it is today. I have not compiled it for a long time now. hth On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 2:09 AM, EBo wrote: > I just checked /n/sour

Re: [9fans] Maybe a weird Plan 9 project.

2011-07-29 Thread EBo
I just checked /n/sources/lsr and there is no x10fs. On Sat, 30 Jul 2011 01:58:32 +0200, Nemo wrote: isnt it in sources? if not ill dig the dump. On Jul 30, 2011, at 1:23 AM, EBo wrote: On Fri, 29 Jul 2011 22:34:00 +0200, Francisco J Ballesteros wrote: We had an x10fs for a serial cm11. Mig

Re: [9fans] Maybe a weird Plan 9 project.

2011-07-29 Thread Nemo
isnt it in sources? if not ill dig the dump. On Jul 30, 2011, at 1:23 AM, EBo wrote: > On Fri, 29 Jul 2011 22:34:00 +0200, Francisco J Ballesteros wrote: >> We had an x10fs for a serial cm11. >> Might be even in sources. > > All I found on a web search for x10fs was a paper, but no sources. D

Re: [9fans] Maybe a weird Plan 9 project.

2011-07-29 Thread EBo
On Fri, 29 Jul 2011 22:34:00 +0200, Francisco J Ballesteros wrote: We had an x10fs for a serial cm11. Might be even in sources. All I found on a web search for x10fs was a paper, but no sources. Do you have a pointer to the sources? EBo --

Re: [9fans] Maybe a weird Plan 9 project.

2011-07-29 Thread EBo
On Fri, 29 Jul 2011 13:25:29 -0700, Bakul Shah wrote: May be an Arduino to measure the resistance and control a relay to power a solenoid valve? May be it can talk 9p. That said, I am very interested in an el-cheapo building block that talks 9p over USB and can connect to various sensor inputs,

Re: [9fans] Maybe a weird Plan 9 project.

2011-07-29 Thread EBo
On Fri, 29 Jul 2011 15:09:50 -0700, David Leimbach wrote: On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 1:08 PM, EBo wrote: On Fri, 29 Jul 2011 10:22:55 -0700, David Leimbach wrote: Heck I could do it from Emacs if I wanted to... actually, I would love to see that as an implementation. I can see it now... "e

Re: [9fans] Maybe a weird Plan 9 project.

2011-07-29 Thread David Leimbach
On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 1:08 PM, EBo wrote: > On Fri, 29 Jul 2011 10:22:55 -0700, David Leimbach wrote: > >> >> Consider that I may want to flesh out interfaces to this system later. I >> could also do this in Linux, or FreeBSD or even Windows, but why not on >> Plan >> 9? >> > > It would also b

Re: [9fans] Maybe a weird Plan 9 project.

2011-07-29 Thread Bakul Shah
On Fri, 29 Jul 2011 22:34:00 +0200 Francisco J Ballesteros wrote: > We had an x10fs for a serial cm11. > Might be even in sources. Thanks. From what I recall a CM11 is quite different from a CP290 but I can probably steal enough to make my task easier. My CP290 has been pretty reliable so far

Re: [9fans] Maybe a weird Plan 9 project.

2011-07-29 Thread Francisco J Ballesteros
We had an x10fs for a serial cm11. Might be even in sources. On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 10:25 PM, Bakul Shah wrote: > On Fri, 29 Jul 2011 06:44:09 PDT David Leimbach  wrote: >> >> I was outside watering plants this morning that seem to be proof of my >> "not-so-green thumb" I have for gardening and

Re: [9fans] Maybe a weird Plan 9 project.

2011-07-29 Thread Bakul Shah
On Fri, 29 Jul 2011 06:44:09 PDT David Leimbach wrote: > > I was outside watering plants this morning that seem to be proof of my > "not-so-green thumb" I have for gardening and was thinking of an interesting > home-automation use for Plan 9. > > What I'd like to do is get the following: > > 1

Re: [9fans] Maybe a weird Plan 9 project.

2011-07-29 Thread EBo
On Fri, 29 Jul 2011 10:22:55 -0700, David Leimbach wrote: Consider that I may want to flesh out interfaces to this system later. I could also do this in Linux, or FreeBSD or even Windows, but why not on Plan 9? It would also be intersting to control these devices via the new Linux 9p inte

Re: [9fans] Maybe a weird Plan 9 project.

2011-07-29 Thread David Leimbach
On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 9:32 AM, hiro <23h...@googlemail.com> wrote: > I don't get the point of plan9 here. Learning C should be a matter of > hours for such an unspoiled mind, so I'd say go with bare hardware. > > Consider that I may want to flesh out interfaces to this system later. I could als

Re: [9fans] Maybe a weird Plan 9 project.

2011-07-29 Thread hiro
I don't get the point of plan9 here. Learning C should be a matter of hours for such an unspoiled mind, so I'd say go with bare hardware.

Re: [9fans] Maybe a weird Plan 9 project.

2011-07-29 Thread David Leimbach
On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 6:48 AM, EBo wrote: > On Fri, 29 Jul 2011 06:44:09 -0700, David Leimbach wrote: > >> I was outside watering plants this morning that seem to be proof of my >> "not-so-green thumb" I have for gardening and was thinking of an >> interesting >> home-automation use for Plan 9.

Re: [9fans] Maybe a weird Plan 9 project.

2011-07-29 Thread EBo
On Fri, 29 Jul 2011 06:44:09 -0700, David Leimbach wrote: I was outside watering plants this morning that seem to be proof of my "not-so-green thumb" I have for gardening and was thinking of an interesting home-automation use for Plan 9. take a look at styx-on-a-brick. Once you have the basi

[9fans] Maybe a weird Plan 9 project.

2011-07-29 Thread David Leimbach
I was outside watering plants this morning that seem to be proof of my "not-so-green thumb" I have for gardening and was thinking of an interesting home-automation use for Plan 9. What I'd like to do is get the following: 1. Moisture sensor I can embed in some potted plant soil, and read from Pla