Category Archives: Serial Driver

A new prototype is “born”

February 11, 2008 – 9:44 am

This week I took two tasks upon myself… first being to use PHP to pass arguments to the C code developed by Dave and second to mockup a prototype using a two valve configuration.
PHP Passing
On passing values and arguments to the C code: This task was relatively straight forward, as I thought it would be. […]

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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 […]

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