Re: Robotics and parallel ports

2005-12-18 Thread Isaac T Alston
Thanks - now I just have to convince my parents that I should be allowed to etch circuit boards in my room :-) . Thanks again. Regards, Isaac -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python and curses

2005-12-16 Thread Isaac T Alston
linuxfreak wrote: > Was wanting to write a text based application in python seems > curses module is the way to go... anyone knows of any good tutorials > apart from the one written by esr Not off the top of my head, no. However, you will find that the functions needed will be very similar to

Re: Robotics and parallel ports

2005-12-16 Thread Isaac T Alston
Thanks for everyone's tips and hints. I WILL MAKE THIS WORK! I think I'll take your advice and use the serial port instead of the parallel port - I won't have that much data to send (in comparison with, for example, industrial level applications). As for on-board chips though, does this require low

Re: text manipulation

2005-12-16 Thread Isaac T Alston
Johhny wrote: > Any advice would be great. Have you had a look at Python's re module? If you've not, I suggest you do so - it contains all of Python's regex tools which you'll need. Regards, -- Isaac -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Robotics and parallel ports

2005-12-15 Thread Isaac T Alston
Heiko Wundram wrote: > Maybe it's what you're looking for. Thanks for that. I've never actually built a robot or anything like that before, so I'm welcome to any advice I can get! I've heard programming via USB is hard, so that's why I'm using the parallel port (serial ports are said to be slow wh

Robotics and parallel ports

2005-12-15 Thread Isaac T Alston
Basically, I'm thinking about building a robot which can be controlled by programs which I write, I'm going to interface to the robot through the parallel port (like in this tutorial here: linuxfocus.org/English/May2001/article205.shtml). However, I know that this will probably need to be done in l