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Yet they don't actually need to be on all the time. A quick hack is done to have a Python script turn on a bank of gadget chargers, and turn them off under automated control.
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Here's a quick attempt to bring things into the current century ... the task is to get a ping(8) between two computers using two handheld amateur radio transceivers.
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Quozl had to fix it. Publishing it in case somebody needs it. Check out the change from k74.c to k74-ppdev.c in my repository.
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But in a reactive role, where most of the time is spent responding to one interrupt after another, one needs a way to service these human interrupts. Most people seem to do it with telephone ringers, text message alert tones, pagers, or popup windows. Focus stealing is annoying. Lose of concentration more so. Hence the TCP/IP Distributed LED Mimic Panel, consisting of an array of eight LEDs driven from a parallel port that sits on the desk, and a set of spare computers around the house with displays that show a graphical version of the same panel.
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Update: more batteries added.
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Update: a schematic diagram for the project. (12 June 2005) |
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Update: released source code for the microcontroller program under the GNU Public License.
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Update: adjustments for higher sampling rates, and a schematic contributed by a reader.
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