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[20:42:59] <jkridner> :(
[20:43:26] <jkridner> why is it always *after* I answer a question that I notice BeagleBot isn't running?
[20:43:35] <aholler> the pc-sw of the nxt is based on labview and is really good to do basic things.
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[20:46:41] <rmoriz> strange. after like 15m pressing reset???it just worked and booted again....
[20:47:16] <aholler> ni could imho be a candidate to get bought by ti ;)
[20:51:46] <aholler> but I assume that won't give us free versions of labview to use with one of the beagles ;)
[20:51:52] <koen> ka6sox-away: do you know how I can enable cloudkick on emerald? I suspect it never got installed :)
[20:52:41] <ka6sox-away> koen, I thought it was...let me find out now.
[20:52:53] <ka6sox-away> do you want to be notified as well or just us?
[20:53:42] <ka6sox-away> koen it is installed...let me make sure it comes up when the box does.
[20:53:44] <koen> either option is fine
[20:53:58] <ka6sox-away> kk...it used to come up automatically.
[20:54:03] <ka6sox-away> dunno why it isn't now.
[20:54:54] <ka6sox-away> ah, the notifications got turned off in the panel, back up now.
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[21:06:57] <Russ> I recall long ago testing the blob boot loader by running it from RAM before flashing it
[21:07:12] <Russ> anyone know if u-boot has similar functionality?
[21:07:52] <_av500_> xxiao: why would nv disappear?
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[21:12:02] <rmoriz> [ 4.335056] PHY 0:00 not found <= that should not appear, should it?
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[21:18:33] <mru> Russ: sure
[21:18:53] <mru> just load u-boot.bin at $addr and "go $addr"
[21:19:07] <Russ> so it doesn't need to be compiled differently?
[21:19:27] <_av500_> for that load adrr
[21:20:07] <Russ> what about CONFIG_SYS_RAMBOOT?
[21:20:22] <Stormbytes> is there a config utility (like uboot) that's accessible via terminal/ssh?
[21:20:53] <Russ> you mean something to program the u-boot env?
[21:21:38] <Stormbytes> my understanding (i just received my beagleboard) is that uboot is a bios-like config tool for beagleboard
[21:21:53] <rmoriz> and now: random reboots :/
[21:21:58] <Stormbytes> I'm on OSX 10.7 and can't get the FTDI drivers working (waiting for the update)
[21:22:05] <_av500_> no
[21:22:08] <Stormbytes> so I was wondering if there was some way to get to the config tool via terminal
[21:22:08] <Russ> what did you want to configure?
[21:22:25] <Stormbytes> oh, well nothing specific, I"m just exploring the board/env
[21:23:31] <Russ> u-boot has a set of tools for parsing the flash sector that contains the env
[21:23:41] <Stormbytes> oh i see
[21:23:56] <Stormbytes> tad over my head ;)
[21:24:04] <jay6981> stormbytes: if you have vmware fusion you can install linux and use its FTDI driver
[21:24:24] <Stormbytes> jay6981 now there's a thought ;)
[21:24:37] <jay6981> that's how I do all my development
[21:24:57] * Russ is confused why people don't just do development on linux
[21:24:58] <Stormbytes> I was tinkering with Arduino thus far so... no real need
[21:25:27] <koen> Russ: I do development on linux, but serial is connected to OSX boxes
[21:25:34] <Stormbytes> i'm going to have to dip my feet back in Linux to learn how to develop for embedded
[21:25:37] <_av500_> Russ: the novelty hype around it has worn off :)
[21:25:50] <Russ> just a fad then?
[21:25:56] <Stormbytes> is there some clear-and-simple way to read/write the pins on the bb?
[21:25:57] <jay6981> linux sucks on laptops
[21:26:14] * Russ stares at his vaio se and gets confused
[21:26:29] <jay6981> imagine that??? a world where people like different things
[21:26:47] <_av500_> how boring :)
[21:26:51] <Russ> jay6981, did you read wednesdays' basicinstructions?
[21:26:52] <woglinde_> linux on quantum computer suckz too
[21:27:14] <Russ> er, that's monday
[21:27:15] * Stormbytes downloads Ubuntu 11
[21:27:21] * Russ http://basicinstructions.net/basic-instructions/2011/12/11/how-to-give-someone-advice-about-a-major-purchase.html
[21:28:39] <jay6981> Russ: lol
[21:32:34] <Stormbytes> is there some quick-and-dirty way to read/write the beagleboard's pins?
[21:32:42] <Stormbytes> just picked this up http://www.ebay.com/itm/2-Channels-5V-Relay-Module-Arduino-ARM-PIC-AVR-DSP-/290645897569?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item43abd87161#ht_2763wt_961
[21:32:56] <Stormbytes> soon i won't have to get up to start a pot of coffee
[21:32:58] <jay6981> you probably want to learn how GPIOs work
[21:33:35] <Stormbytes> where might i do that (for this board) ?
[21:34:21] <jay6981> maybe google for linux gpio howto
[21:34:26] <jay6981> someone here probably has a link
[21:34:34] <Stormbytes> ah
[21:34:48] <Stormbytes> progress...
[21:35:13] <jay6981> learn unix, learn c
[21:35:29] <Stormbytes> I was hoping for somekind of prefab API :)
[21:35:37] <woglinde_> o.O
[21:35:38] <Russ> ok, so whoever wrote omap-u-boot-utils was not familiar with posix...
[21:35:51] <woglinde_> russ rewrite it
[21:36:25] <Stormbytes> jay6981 unix=linux ?
[21:36:32] <jay6981> sorta
[21:36:50] <Stormbytes> close enough :)
[21:36:53] <woglinde_> macosx is unix too under the hood
[21:36:56] <Stormbytes> will have to hunt for some boox
[21:36:56] <jay6981> kinda
[21:37:11] <Stormbytes> it is but all of the *nix stuff is kind of done for you by the os
[21:38:57] <jay6981> i'm sure there's some high level stuff??? you can probably control the gpios from the command line
[21:39:14] <woglinde_> jay6981 only if the kernel expose them
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[21:39:26] <jay6981> i think it does in sysfs
[21:40:04] * Stormbytes reaches for the Arduino
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[21:46:08] <Stormbytes> Does the Angstrom distro that comes with the beaglebone expose the GPIO ?
[21:46:34] <Stormbytes> I mean.. so as to read/write from the terminal
[21:47:14] <woglinde_> look into the kernel-sources
[21:47:23] <jay6981> heh
[21:47:38] <koen> Stormbytes: short answer: yes
[21:47:55] <koen> Stormbytes: jkridner can give you the longer answer involving debugfs and exports :)
[21:47:57] * Stormbytes is thinking this is going to be a lot harder then Arduino
[21:48:22] <XorA> you dont need debugfs to expose gpio to usespace
[21:48:42] <koen> XorA: some gpios aren't muxed properly yet, so it depends on the pin you want to use
[21:49:01] <Stormbytes> to dumb this down: What's the terminal command to send a given pin to DigitalHigh?
[21:49:30] <Stormbytes> or to perform an analog-read on a pin?
[21:49:42] <woglinde_> http://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/gpio.txt
[21:49:49] <Stormbytes> there's gotta be some high level embedded linux api
[21:50:09] <woglinde_> Paths in Sysfs
[21:50:23] <XorA> echo XXX >/sys/class/gpio/export
[21:50:25] <koen> echo 1 > /sys/class/gpio/gpio<number>/value
[21:50:38] <XorA> echo out >/sys/class/gpio/gpioXXX/direction
[21:50:45] <koen> digital read: cat /sys/class/gpio/gpio<number>/value
[21:50:45] <XorA> then what koen said
[21:50:45] <Stormbytes> enter rocket science :)
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[21:51:35] * XorA ins still a little confused about the role of the bone vs beagle, is it just smaller?
[21:51:35] <_av500_> rocket surgery
[21:51:44] <woglinde_> xora yes
[21:51:52] <woglinde_> and no display-out
[21:51:55] <_av500_> its also bonier
[21:51:55] <woglinde_> by default
[21:52:01] <Stormbytes> lol
[21:52:02] <koen> XorA: smaller, cheaper, less stuff in the SoC
[21:52:03] <LolOLOlo> the processor of the bone is only $5 :)
[21:52:10] <Stormbytes> pretty sure they have a breakout board that allows for vga
[21:52:12] <jay6981> rocket appliances
[21:52:18] <XorA> so a throw away device then :-)
[21:52:25] <koen> XorA: e.g. no DSP, overlays, accel
[21:52:26] <woglinde_> like a bone for dog
[21:52:27] <woglinde_> yes
[21:52:33] <koen> XorA: a8 + sgx + ethernet
[21:52:54] <XorA> never used the display part of my beagles yet :-)
[21:53:38] <XorA> 80x25 green screen is good enough for me :-D
[21:53:41] <Stormbytes> i admit i'm a bit surprised GPIO operations are so complicated
[21:53:52] <woglinde_> o.O
[21:53:55] <XorA> so in fact bone and raspberry PI are competitors
[21:54:19] <XorA> with bone actually existing so more likely to win :-)
[21:54:20] <_av500_> bone has no hdmi out
[21:55:16] <koen> XorA: and bone isn't subsidized, pi is
[21:55:25] <koen> the pi is at least getting the SoC for free
[21:55:48] <XorA> PI has an ever expanding waistline :)
[21:55:50] <koen> you can actually make a bone yourself and make a profit if you sell it for $79
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[21:56:34] * XorA should order a bone
[21:56:42] <Stormbytes> they are backordered on most sites
[21:56:50] <djlewis> what? to feed your rotwiler?
[21:56:50] <Stormbytes> dkey should have some (as of yesterday)
[21:57:15] <LolOLOlo> mouser should have it
[21:57:32] <XorA> I can wait until next year, too many toys to play with at moment
[21:58:05] <A2Sheds> there is a discussion on arm-netbook@lists.phcomp.co.uk and debian-arm@lists.debian.org about spinning a beaglebone in the EOMA-PCMCIA format EOMA-PCMCIA
[21:58:19] <A2Sheds> http://www.elinux.org/Embedded_Open_Modular_Architecture/PCMCIA
[21:59:36] <A2Sheds> outside of the PowerVR are there any sections of the AM335x that are binary only?
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[21:59:58] <Stormbytes> wow ubuntu's so bloated
[22:00:27] <jay6981> it's a desktop operating system
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[22:00:55] <woglinde_> you can get it down to 500 packages
[22:01:16] <jay6981> build your own linux from scratch
[22:01:34] <Stormbytes> jay6981 that requires some knowledge i'd think
[22:01:58] <XorA> bitbake micro-image :-D
[22:02:29] <jay6981> Stormbytes: so get some
[22:02:41] <Stormbytes> jay6981 working on it..
[22:04:06] <jay6981> you'd learn a lot building linux from scratch
[22:04:18] <Stormbytes> i'm gonna have to pick up a book
[22:04:38] <Stormbytes> i downloaded ubuntu but this things a behemoth
[22:04:52] <woglinde_> .o(why he said ubuntu is bloated and uses macosx)
[22:04:52] <Stormbytes> at least the v11 standard distribution they are offering
[22:05:23] <Stormbytes> I chose OSX
[22:06:02] <Stormbytes> which isn't to say OSX is perfect, but its comfy
[22:08:45] <Stormbytes> What's a good linux distro for VM
[22:08:49] <Stormbytes> for learning purposes
[22:09:14] <woglinde_> depends what you want to learn
[22:09:59] <Stormbytes> hmm
[22:11:01] <Stormbytes> i'd like to learn how to interact with and develop interesting projects for embedded linux
[22:11:06] <Stormbytes> in a nutshell.
[22:11:43] <woglinde_> depends what you under of embedded
[22:11:48] <woglinde_> and kernel or userland
[22:12:00] <Stormbytes> what's kernel / userland?
[22:12:26] <Russ> woglinde_, http://gitororious.org/omap-u-boot-utils
[22:12:29] <Russ> er
[22:12:35] <Russ> woglinde_, http://gitorious.org/omap-u-boot-utils
[22:12:42] <woglinde_> Stormbytes find out that first
[22:12:58] <Stormbytes> wow.. this really is a lot more then i bargained for
[22:14:11] <jay6981> it's not realistic to expect something running a general purpose OS to be as simple as a microcontroller
[22:15:39] <woglinde_> russ ieehks serial console handling under c
[22:15:50] <woglinde_> in python its so much nicer
[22:16:43] <Stormbytes> an mc isn't "simple" by any stretch
[22:17:23] <XorA> especialls when he is a hammer :-D
[22:17:33] <Stormbytes> the simplicity/complexity of interacting with any hardware platform is dictated by the available toolchain and documentation
[22:17:33] <jay6981> it is compared to a 32bit processor with virtual memory
[22:17:51] <woglinde_> o.O
[22:19:02] <djlewis> Stormbytes: unless you started like a lot of us, got the uC with some docs and no toolchain.
[22:19:03] <mru> serial port in C is fine
[22:19:06] <mru> try java for a headache
[22:19:12] <jay6981> so if there's no toolchain does that mean it is infinitely complex?
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[22:19:19] <djlewis> no
[22:19:22] <mru> djlewis: you had docs? you lucky bastard!
[22:19:35] <Stormbytes> and my grandfather walked 5 miles to school every day, in 3 feet of snow, uphill both ways, so what?
[22:19:49] <Stormbytes> welcome to the 21st centurty
[22:19:53] <djlewis> mru: yeah :) my 6502 Kim came with lots of "over my head" docs ;)
[22:19:58] <Stormbytes> century
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[22:20:41] <XorA> 6502 was such a simple beast compared to z80 :-D
[22:20:41] <woglinde_> mru java-rxtx works in some cases
[22:20:46] <djlewis> yes, the 21st century where mom holds your hand everywhere you go and does your homework for you.
[22:21:55] <woglinde_> djlewis your mom is google
[22:22:08] <djlewis> lol
[22:22:15] <woglinde_> good nite
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[22:22:25] <Stormbytes> no, the 21st century approach is based on communicating information and simplifying learning, rather then ego centric obscurity
[22:27:24] <XorA> without giant egos we would never have had the zx spectrum and BBC micro :-D
[22:28:22] * Stormbytes scratches his head..
[22:28:33] <jay6981> If I have seen a little further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants
[22:29:43] <Stormbytes> this is pretty frustrating
[22:30:15] <Stormbytes> if the GPIO is so damn obscure, what's the point of developing a board like this
[22:30:29] <jay6981> you should return it
[22:30:51] <Stormbytes> good possibility at this point
[22:30:52] <djlewis> give up on it
[22:31:59] <djlewis> omap's and arduino's are not in the same category.
[22:32:05] <Stormbytes> no docs, no high level API, no general direction, and a "bring your own giant" attitude...
[22:32:27] <jay6981> clearly not for the entitlement generation
[22:32:45] <Stormbytes> you don't have to use Arduino's prefab libs. You're free to write your own.. but at least they get you started
[22:32:51] <djlewis> Stormbytes: if I may ask, what is your ultimate design goal? perhaps a arduino would be better suited to you?
[22:33:02] <Stormbytes> there is no real "design goal"
[22:33:12] <Stormbytes> I love to tinker with electronics, its fun :)
[22:33:27] <Stormbytes> I built some home automation gadgets with arduino/ruby/sinatra
[22:33:32] <djlewis> well, many tinkers have blown up beagleboards.
[22:33:42] <Stormbytes> and this is bad?
[22:33:53] <djlewis> the stm32 Discovery is a cool dev board
[22:34:01] <Stormbytes> i was considering phidgets
[22:34:07] <Stormbytes> but its too damned pricey
[22:34:19] <djlewis> they do it for you, no learning there
[22:34:21] <Stormbytes> i didn't realize this board would be a Linux-on-your-own space walk
[22:34:42] <djlewis> even arduino mostly does it for you
[22:34:57] <mdp> You might like mindstorms
[22:35:04] <djlewis> rofl
[22:36:27] <Stormbytes> if there was a GPIO API (which is kind of what I was hoping for) you can download the interpreter of your choice, write scripts, run servers, connect to peripheral hw and have a blast with this thing
[22:36:37] <Stormbytes> the concept is terrific but the implementation gets an F
[22:37:14] <djlewis> yeah, perhaps, a lot of engineers use it.
[22:37:20] <jay6981> quite a few people manage
[22:37:26] <Stormbytes> then it should be marketted as an engineering product
[22:37:39] <Stormbytes> the presentation is very misleading
[22:37:44] <djlewis> I disagree
[22:37:58] <jay6981> it's not uncommon to know linux these days
[22:38:07] <Stormbytes> define "know"
[22:38:16] <Stormbytes> i "know" how to use the terminal
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[22:38:24] <Stormbytes> i "know" how to install/remove programs
[22:38:27] <mru> jay6981: don't you know people like us were born with the knowledge?
[22:38:38] <mru> never mind linux not being invented until much later
[22:38:48] <Stormbytes> I don't "know" how to write my own GPIO (hw) interfacing routines
[22:38:51] <jay6981> it's not uncommon to spend some time learning this stuff either
[22:38:58] <jay6981> unix has been around for 40 years
[22:39:02] <djlewis> and is healthy for you
[22:39:07] <djlewis> learning that is
[22:39:12] <Stormbytes> i'm down with a learning curve
[22:39:21] <jay6981> no you're not??? you're bitching about everything
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[22:40:23] <Stormbytes> i'm frustrated with the product. I expected a bit more guidance/documentation
[22:40:31] <Stormbytes> i'm not "bitching about everything"
[22:41:36] <djlewis> THis group is a very helpful group, but we all expect the person to make a good effort
[22:41:44] <Stormbytes> and I'm glad to do that
[22:41:49] <mru> or we'll mock you without mercy
[22:41:49] <Stormbytes> where does one start exactly?
[22:42:02] <djlewis> but we dont hand hold unless soeone here is drunk :)
[22:42:07] <djlewis> someone
[22:42:09] <jay6981> or you're paying me
[22:42:14] * mru glances at beer glass
[22:42:39] <ds2> I donno about even when drunk
[22:42:56] <djlewis> Stormbytes: I just gotta ask. Are you from India?
[22:43:11] <Stormbytes> ok anyways, enough bitching... what kind of book does one get to wrap one's head about htf to interract with this board?
[22:43:15] <djlewis> nevermind
[22:43:21] <ds2> read the source
[22:43:24] <Stormbytes> If i was from India I'd probably know what i was talking about
[22:43:27] <Stormbytes> I"m American
[22:43:30] <Stormbytes> I'm entitled to be a dumbass
[22:43:56] * djlewis bites his tonque and snarls
[22:45:18] <Stormbytes> djlewis if it makes you feel any better, i wasn't born in the US
[22:45:24] <jay6981> get a TRM, ARM ARM, cross assembler and write some code
[22:45:29] <jay6981> you won't be an idiot anymore
[22:45:53] <djlewis> even the SRM would be helpful
[22:46:46] <Stormbytes> do you guys even use the GPIOs on your boards?
[22:47:02] <djlewis> lots do
[22:47:03] <Stormbytes> or are you just using it as a cheap computer?
[22:47:19] <mru> cheap? I _make_ money with it
[22:47:57] <Stormbytes> what are some applications for a beagle board?
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[22:49:52] <Russ> Stormbytes, are you aware of /sys/class/gpio?
[22:50:18] <jay6981> that's way too esoteric
[22:50:23] <mru> Stormbytes: some of us built http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EprL3PtqDoM
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[22:51:03] <Stormbytes> Russ nope. like I said, I just got this board today from dkey
[22:51:09] <Stormbytes> mru - very cool!
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[22:54:36] <Russ> http://www.avrfreaks.net/wiki/index.php/Documentation:Linux/GPIO
[22:55:51] <jay6981> shell might be too level
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[22:56:24] <Russ> level what?
[22:56:40] <jay6981> err too low level
[22:56:47] <Russ> shell? low level?
[22:57:08] <jay6981> sacrasm does not come across well here
[22:57:12] <jay6981> sarcasm even
[22:57:51] <_av500_> sarcasm level
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[23:10:02] <Stormbytes> Russ thanks... the light begins to shine
[23:10:54] <hagna_> so I'm looking for a way to receive midi events with angstrom on the beagleboard xm
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[23:16:06] <djlewis> later . . .
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[23:21:01] <xxiao> _av500_: i think everyone is doing some cheap devkit these days, except for marvell/broadcom/nvidia
[23:21:12] <xxiao> _av500_: not that nv will really disappear
[23:21:35] <xxiao> had a peek into freescale's quad-core imx, looks awesome
[23:22:01] <ds2> how well does that quad core fry eggs?
[23:23:44] <xxiao> it did not hurt my fingers
[23:25:59] <xxiao> can't even find a basic spec on tegra3
[23:26:10] <jay6981> nv is so secretive about everything
[23:26:40] <xxiao> worse than broadcom and marvell it appears
[23:27:01] <xxiao> ti is the most open
[23:27:03] <_av500_> qc is too and they seem to do fine
[23:27:08] <_av500_> as in closed
[23:27:12] <xxiao> _av500_: qc is changing
[23:27:18] <_av500_> ah
[23:27:24] <_av500_> doubt that
[23:27:30] <xxiao> _av500_: in both low price strategy and a board simiar to beagle
[23:27:42] <_av500_> xxiao: lol, i have seen the board
[23:27:49] <_av500_> do you see anybody talking about it?
[23:27:53] <xxiao> how does it look like?
[23:27:54] <jay6981> yeah, I can just download the TRM for the OMAP4460 in my phone
[23:27:57] <_av500_> xxiao: green
[23:28:17] <xxiao> i did not buy it...as felt qc is too closed, but does sense it's trying to change
[23:28:20] <xxiao> or copying ti/etc
[23:28:36] <_av500_> xxiao: well, I dont see them posting a TRM
[23:28:53] <xxiao> _av500_: right, i just hope it's getting less evil
[23:29:02] <_av500_> that board is a fig leaf
[23:29:13] <xxiao> ti, freescale are both fairly open comparing to others
[23:29:32] <xxiao> texans don't really care
[23:30:04] <_av500_> qc does not need a community board, they have all the design-ins they need
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[23:32:30] <xxiao> imx6 has pcie x1 which is great
[23:32:41] <xxiao> sata too
[23:36:55] <Stormbytes> anyone know of a rubygem (or any other high level class) for interacing with Linux GPIO ?
[23:37:18] <Stormbytes> lol hillarious... i might actually be the first to write one
[23:37:54] <_av500_> anything that can open/read/write/close
[23:38:02] <Stormbytes> sorry?
[23:38:03] <_av500_> be it ruby or emerald
[23:38:06] <jay6981> haha
[23:38:08] <_av500_> its linux
[23:38:16] <_av500_> you open files and read and write
[23:38:21] <_av500_> maybe ruby can do that too
[23:38:27] <jay6981> sorcery!
[23:38:31] <Stormbytes> lol
[23:38:41] <Stormbytes> ruby can access/execute shell commands
[23:38:45] <_av500_> if it can, it can talk to a gpio
[23:38:53] <_av500_> its not rocket surgery
[23:39:53] <Stormbytes> yes, but it would be a *royal* pita to go through the whole /sys/class/gpio/ routine every time you wanted to read/write the gpio
[23:40:13] <Stormbytes> objectifying the process (for ruby dev) makes life a lot easier
[23:40:27] <Stormbytes> gpio.writeHigh(pin#)
[23:40:37] <Stormbytes> gpio.read(pin#)
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[23:45:12] <Russ> Stormbytes, I once made a configuration file that specified what GPIOs should be exported and what their default direction/state was along with an init.d script to go with it. Something like that would probably help too
[23:45:34] <Stormbytes> indeed
[23:46:19] <Stormbytes> i'm going to have to read the manual for this board to try and get some of that
[23:46:43] <Stormbytes> also, do the pins source (output) 5v or 1.8v ?
[23:47:07] <Stormbytes> is there any other useful io hardware on this board? (pwm, adc, etc?)
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[23:53:00] <_av500_> Stormbytes: ok, so you just invented abstraction :)
[23:53:18] <xxiao> Stormbytes: for gpio, echo will do it
[23:53:34] <Stormbytes> _av500_ whoohoo :)
[23:53:37] <_av500_> 1.8v, read the SRM
[23:53:49] <Stormbytes> SMR ?
[23:53:53] <Stormbytes> err SRM?
[23:54:00] <Stormbytes> something...something...Manual
[23:54:13] <jacekowski> system reference manual
[23:54:26] <jacekowski> _av500_: it's not there
[23:55:17] <Stormbytes> ah
[23:55:34] <xxiao> what is the SOPA thing
[23:55:45] <jacekowski> stop online piracy act
[23:55:53] <jacekowski> censorship and invigilation
[23:56:14] <xxiao> well i think they can just license GFW from china