Re: Mark IV test bed available over the Internet.

[Tom Droege <tdroege@veriomail.com>]

Chris and all,

I think we need for someone (Chris?) to look at the whole package and rough 
out a plan.  Once we have a plan, then I can try to ride herd on these cats 
to get someone to do each piece of the project.

I am particularly concerned about the Stamp code.  It needs a pretty 
drastic rewrite because I now want to move one motor with a second still 
on.  Someone clever than I needs to work on this and figure out a good way 
to do it.  Part of the stamp project is to consider whether to keep the 
present 8 ascii character string command.  All should be up for grabs.

I will have to work out a patch for Arne so that he can operate over the 
next several months a little better.  After that it would be nice to have 
about 10 blocks that we can pass out??  First we have to have a design.

Tom Droege

At 11:21 PM 9/14/00 -0700, you wrote:
>All,
>
>Just in case anyone has too much free time on their hands
>and wants to mess around with some Mark IV hardware first
>hand read the bottom paragraph.
>
>I have had the Mark IV electronics here at my house some time
>now.  I have found there is almost no need ever to go up stairs
>and touch or look at either the Mark IV electronics or the computer
>it is hooked up to (or the computer's screen or keyboard)  It
>has run without a re-boot or power cycle for weeks now.
>
>Just last week I had a 768Kbps DSL line installed here at the
>house.  I have a static IP address and the line seems to stay
>up solid at the rated speed.  I have just finished connecting
>the entire "house Ethernet" to the Internet via the DSL line.
>
>I did an experiment from my office at work and found I can
>access the Mark IV and it's control computer just fine from
>there.  In fact after 6:00pm it is quieter at the office than
>at home (I have two kids) and I could (but don't) work better
>there then here.
>
>What's the point of saying all this?  To let you all know
>that any of you can have good and usable access to the hardware
>if you want.  Why should only few of us have all the fun?
>Just ask and I can set you up with passwords and accounts here.
>There is a lot that needs to be done.  Don't know anything about
>"C" programming and Linux?  Well some of the work is in BASIC
>and runs under DOS and some is STAMP BASIC.
>
>
>--
>    Chris Albertson             home: chrisja@phoenixdsl.com
>    Redondo Beach, California   work: calbertson@primeadvantage.com