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Re: First Calculator on IRC
« Reply #30 on: January 16, 2011, 03:31:24 pm »
^ That would be WIN, although I know this would be impossible. :P
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Re: First Calculator on IRC
« Reply #31 on: January 16, 2011, 10:24:03 pm »
The better part of a decade of dreaming, a few months of solid CALCnet2.2 development, and a month of globalCALCnet (gCn) work has at last brought us to the first released beta of the software necessary to connect your calculators to the internet.  As previously discussed here on Cemetech, calculator networks connected over gCn appear to the constituent calculators as a single, unified local network, so that users can chat, play games, and even access internet resources over globalCALCnet.  For example, gCn has been connected to IRC (Internet Relay Chat) so that not only can gCn users chat with each other via their calculators from hundreds or thousands of miles away, but can also chat with IRC users around the world.  The two files below respectively contain the software necessary to connect your calculators to globalCALCnet, and information on the hardware needed to connect a CALCnet2.2 network to your computer.  With a simple Arduino microcontroller board and a few miscellaneous components, a CALCnet2.2 network of one, two, or a thousand calculators can be connected to a piece of computer software called gCnClient and thence to the rest of the world.  The gCnClient has been built for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux, so anyone should be able to use it.  Full instructions are also included for programming your Arduino from any operating system to function as a gCn bridge.  Please test out this beta software, make sure it works well, post photos of your gCn bridge/hub devices, and most importantly, chat and play games over globalCALCnet!

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gCn (globalCALCnet) Client v0.8 Beta
On the Setup of a globalCALCnet (gCn) Client and Bridge

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Re: First Calculator on IRC
« Reply #32 on: January 16, 2011, 10:39:30 pm »
Darn I really need an Arduino at one point. I read in some posts that some people would like to make Axe games that works with CALCnet when there's an Axiom for it.

Keep up the good work Kerm!
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Re: First Calculator on IRC
« Reply #33 on: January 16, 2011, 10:43:06 pm »
stinks you cannot go to other chans though, only cemetech.. (unless I am mistaken)
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Re: First Calculator on IRC
« Reply #34 on: January 16, 2011, 10:58:50 pm »
Thanks DJ! I would be happy to help anyone interested in making an Axiom to do so (there's actually only two functions; most of CALCnet is reading and writing the buffer memory locations instead of making calls), but I don't know of anyone who actually knows how to do so.  If you could point such people my way here, on Cemetech, or on IRC, I would appreciate it. :) @Qazz42, only because I haven't but a gCnIRCHub in any other channel to avoid possibly spamming other channels and annoying the administrators.
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Re: First Calculator on IRC
« Reply #35 on: January 16, 2011, 11:00:51 pm »
ah, good point then
* qazz42 waits for omni gCn hub so I can spam... err.. discuss intellectual matters
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Re: First Calculator on IRC
« Reply #36 on: January 17, 2011, 12:26:40 am »
* DJ Omnimaga stabs qazz42. :P

Chatting on Omni via a calculator would actually be fun :P
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Re: First Calculator on IRC
« Reply #37 on: January 17, 2011, 01:22:32 am »
Even better if you could chat in math class.  ::)
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Re: First Calculator on IRC
« Reply #38 on: January 17, 2011, 01:39:43 am »
Quote from: z80man on January 17, 2011, 01:22:32 am
Even better if you could chat in math class.  ::)
Sitting in Math class with a bunch of cables and an Arduino doesn't look suspicious at all ;D
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Re: First Calculator on IRC
« Reply #39 on: January 17, 2011, 01:54:26 am »
Quote from: JosJuice on January 17, 2011, 01:39:43 am
Quote from: z80man on January 17, 2011, 01:22:32 am
Even better if you could chat in math class.  ::)
Sitting in Math class with a bunch of cables and an Arduino doesn't look suspicious at all ;D
I sit near my teacher's desk and there is a wired router on the floor right behind me. I could use a bluetooth setup to connect my calc to the arduino and then to the internet.  ;)
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Re: First Calculator on IRC
« Reply #40 on: January 17, 2011, 02:00:44 am »
this is an amazing update!  Calculators with internet is certainly something that we have been dreaming about for a long time O.O
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Re: First Calculator on IRC
« Reply #41 on: January 17, 2011, 03:42:07 am »
I wonder if it would eventually work with a single, normal link cable.
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Re: First Calculator on IRC
« Reply #42 on: January 17, 2011, 03:45:50 am »
I'm not sure if it could, although it would be cool. However if I recall, the USB protocol is still pretty obscure, so I don't know how long it will take before someone can send data from his calc to the computer then an internet server via a SilverLink cable or an USB one.
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Re: First Calculator on IRC
« Reply #43 on: January 17, 2011, 03:49:08 am »
Well, you could use your USB port as a serial port with a USB to serial driver or something, then write and read to that port, it's so easy.

Edit: Under Linux you should open /dev/ttyUSB0, under Mac OS X, /dev/cu.usbserial###### or something like that, I think the real problem is under Windows, where it's kinda complicated.
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Re: First Calculator on IRC
« Reply #44 on: January 17, 2011, 08:50:35 am »
Quote from: DJ Omnimaga on January 17, 2011, 03:45:50 am
I'm not sure if it could, although it would be cool. However if I recall, the USB protocol is still pretty obscure, so I don't know how long it will take before someone can send data from his calc to the computer then an internet server via a SilverLink cable or an USB one.
I think Kerm tried to send data using the SilverLink, but it didn't work with CALCnet. The SilverLink apparently only recognizes the TI-OS protocol.

Direct USB might be possible to do, but that will probably happen later.
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