[Asier] pointed us to this video of his PC-PIC II acting as a peripheral to his EEepc. You can see him playing pong, using it as a musical input, and even a video game controller. This project seems pretty nice, though we would like some more information. We tried digging around in the “projects” area and couldn’t find anything.
@harvie
I love the Acer Sux edition you got… haha. Nice work from both of you.
Posted at 1:34 pm on Jun 8th, 2009 by Addictronics
2Addictronics: I had actually removed that sticker few months ago, because i realized how much this NTB endured with me (in that 4 years). It’s my very precious PUNK NTB ;)
OK, it’s not so cool. SiS GPU gets me angry (since it have no support on Linux), batteries can hold power to keep it operating for about 10 or 20 minutes and DVD-Burner burned himself away a long time ago:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RN84kMFoXfE&feature=channel_page
but i think it should last few more years…
not sure what the big deal here is?
first, there is no project information. 2nd, it appears to be a simple hid or mouse interface?
3rd, C is preferrable to asm, especially for demonstrating some technique or method.
Posted at 4:03 am on Jun 9th, 2009 by Agent420
Harvie, it looks like the sensor that shows the drive as being closed is not working. The rest of the drive could be fine. It could be a simple fix. Worth a look, I think.
Posted at 5:16 am on Jun 9th, 2009 by Mike
2rjSampaio: yea response is cool…
2mike: no wai… drive is totaly fu*ked up. i recorded this clip because it looked bit funny. anyway bad drive can freeze whole windows (because some design error – windows are waiting until inserted disc is recognized successfully – linux is not affected). i think there is problem with laser or optics… i tried several firmware upgrades, but only thing i changed was color of LED light which differs in latest version of firmware ;)
to rjSampaio
depends on the code – just because something is written in asm does not guarantee it is more efficient than something created from a good c compiler.
also, hid sampling rate is limited by the os. i believe max is 1ms polling, which should be easily achiveable with c on pic.
i guess code choice is more personal preference than anything, and if someone wants to work harder with asm then ok. my point was that asm code operation is not as easily communicated as c.
Posted at 4:32 am on Jun 10th, 2009 by Agent420
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Soon I will publish the source code in the PC (Python) and in the PIC (ASM). Bye ;)
Posted at 7:45 am on Jun 8th, 2009 by Asier Arranz