While most of the code has already been written for the Add Drink interface, the database handler which will send the information from the completed configuration form to the corresponding database tables. It will require interaction with more than one table since the liquid IDs and the drinks are stored separately, which means there […]
Monthly Archives: January 2008
Serial Communication in C
January 28, 2008 – 2:59 pm
Direct Serial Communication
My primary task for this assignment was to research methods of communication with devices connected to the serial port using the language of C. The first method that I came across was a very direct method. It was coupled with a discussion of serial modems as well.
First, we would need to […]
Lessons in Linux Serial Interfaces
January 25, 2008 – 12:26 pm
This week our goal was to get the Linux box that we have set up for our Senior Design project to be able to interface with our 2 connected 8-port relays via the Serial (DB-9) Port, and we succeeded!A little background information:
Server OS - Ubuntu 6.06 LTS (Dapper Drake)
Computer Hardware -
Processor: 1GHz Pentium III
Memory: 256MB […]