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Re: Controlling external hardware through Lua
« Reply #30 on: July 30, 2011, 01:32:50 am »
Yeah, that is very true :)

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Re: Controlling external hardware through Lua
« Reply #31 on: July 31, 2011, 03:10:16 pm »
That looks great, I wish I was as skilled with external hardware, as it looks to be quite interesting! :D


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Re: Controlling external hardware through Lua
« Reply #32 on: August 02, 2011, 01:48:13 am »
Thanks apcalc :)

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Re: Controlling external hardware through Lua
« Reply #33 on: February 18, 2012, 02:47:57 am »
jimbauwens, may be you would be interested by a native Lua extension for this, without the original print() limitations?
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Re: Controlling external hardware through Lua
« Reply #34 on: February 18, 2012, 04:38:23 am »
ExtendeD, you don't know how much I was researching after I heard the news :D
The thing is with the file functions in os.h I can read/write to the serial port (uber awesome). But when reading stdin, it will block until there is data.
And since I can not check if there is data some way, I can't use this method.
There are two possibilities for me:
1) Directly talk to the serial hardware
2) Make stdin non blocking

2 can be done with fcntl() (from fcntl.h), and since it's a posix function it might be in the Nspire. But finding it is another task ^^.

If you have suggestions, please post them :D

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Re: Controlling external hardware through Lua
« Reply #35 on: February 18, 2012, 07:53:02 am »
You should try low-level serial port access, it shouldn't be too difficult.
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Re: Controlling external hardware through Lua
« Reply #36 on: February 19, 2012, 09:02:25 am »
Okay, I'll look at that.
But I have another question: is the method of reading the serial port the same on CX and classic?
(Since they use other uart hardware)

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Re: Controlling external hardware through Lua
« Reply #37 on: February 19, 2012, 10:37:21 am »
No, they use different registers.

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Re: Controlling external hardware through Lua
« Reply #38 on: February 19, 2012, 02:14:57 pm »
Okay, thanks for the information.
When I got some time I'll try to use this method.

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Re: Controlling external hardware through Lua
« Reply #39 on: February 19, 2012, 02:30:24 pm »
Sound via Ndless is possible, right?

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Re: Controlling external hardware through Lua
« Reply #40 on: February 19, 2012, 02:35:51 pm »
Yes, it is :)
And now we can create modules that make it possible in Lua (and even better quality!) :)

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Re: Controlling external hardware through Lua
« Reply #41 on: February 19, 2012, 02:37:18 pm »
Ok that's good to hear then. I wonder, since the processor is 150 MHz, if you could have sound as complex as this?



Or even midi-based sound like in Doom?

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Re: Controlling external hardware through Lua
« Reply #42 on: February 19, 2012, 02:41:46 pm »
Maybe, but I'm not sure.
Right now I don't have time to make a player, but if no one else does it, I'll make one.