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Warning System

This week, I worked on the warning system. We had to make a couple of changes to the database for it to work. The first was the addition of a bottle size element, so that we could know what size the bottles were that were in the system. The other is an […]

Serial Driver

The driver is, for the most part, finished.  It can now take the glass size and a set of port numbers and amounts, and convert them into system calls.  It also calls the appropriate delay between  each call.  The order of calls is as follows:  driver.exe   -glass size-  -first port #-  -first amount-  -second port […]

More Interstitials

The interstitial page is almost completed. We got the Add Drink page to concatenate the drink name and liquids into separate arrays in the $GET array. Now we are trying to get the glass sizes (default and overall possible glasses) to become concatenated into the array from the interstitial pages. We have […]

Adding Drinks, Part Deux

Nothing to add this week.  Been pretty busy trying to get programming languages churned out.  I did talk with Derek about this earlier in the week.  Pretty much, there are a lot of inter-table checks that are going to need to be done when creating the SQL script.  There are going to need to be […]

Serial Communication in C

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 […]