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[Fabathome-developers] Dumb little patch

[Kent M. <me...@cs...>]

Hi I started playing around with trying to make the code for fabathome
a little less platform dependant.

http://www.cs.umn.edu/~mein/fabathome.diff is a small patch
that starts things out.  All it really does is clean up the includes a
bit.

Basically what I was thinking is we try to move all of the windows
specific code into its own little section.  Then its easy to replace
that section with other code for other platforms.  I was figuring we
just pick a file and try to get it compiling on other platforms and work
our way through the code.

There is a lot of work here so if no one is really interested I don't
know if I'll keep working on it or not.

If anyone else wants to help just let me know.

Thanks,

Kent Mein
-- 
me...@cs...
http://www.cs.umn.edu/~mein

[Fabathome-developers] new application source and firmware on CVS

[Evan M. <em...@co...>]

Hi Everyone,
 I uploaded new (v0.18) source code for the fab@home application and a
version 3 firmware has been uploaded, so there is now a firmware module.
The application is much improved in terms of operation with hardware - =
only
crashes when the USB cable is unplugged while comms are live (as far as =
I
can tell).  The "simulator" feature is not working currently, but it was
stupid anyway.  The new code needs the new firmware, and vice-versa.
The firmware had a couple of bugs fixed - limit switches are filtered a =
bit,
the "moving" flag is more reliably set, so the application doesn't hang
waiting for a command to execute.
Please take a look, and you can download the exe of the application and =
the
.elf object file for the firmware on the Fab@Home website.

Best wishes,
Evan

Evan Malone
Computational Synthesis Laboratory
239 Upson Hall (physical)
138 Upson Hall (mail/shipping)
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853 USA
+1 607 254 8940 lab
+1 607 255 1222 fax
+1 215 200 6952 mobile
http://www.mae.cornell.edu/ccsl