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Arc + Arduino + ARM (arcfn.com)
12 points by kens 5335 days ago | 3 comments


2 points by thaddeus 5334 days ago | link

This is very cool stuff. Thanks for the posts.

I've ordered a sheevaplug and am waiting for it to get here already!

To start I'd like to see if I can even get arc up and running as you have, but after I'd also like to see if I can then hook up a touchscreen mimo using displaylink...

http://www.mimomonitors.com/products/mimo-720-S

http://plugcomputer.org/plugforum/index.php?topic=343.msg303...

the notion of having a monitor fed off the sheeva plug, without a video card, is really cool...

not sure what I will do with it, but I will figure that out later.

T.

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2 points by kens 5334 days ago | link

Now that Arc runs on mzscheme 4.x, it's really easy to run Arc on a SheevaPlug; it's just the same as any other Linux box.

I had tried running Arc on the SheevaPlug in the mzscheme 372 era, but that was a disaster. Mzscheme 372 isn't available for the ARM processor, so I tried compiling it myself, but the ARM FFI support wasn't there yet, so the compile broke, and I tried to work around that but ended up in a maze of compilation errors. But now you can just install the mzscheme 4.x package and you're set.

As for the MIMO USB-based monitor, also see the thread at http://plugcomputer.org/plugforum/index.php?topic=379.0 It seems easier to just buy a computer with video in the first place, but maybe that's just me :-)

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1 point by thaddeus 5334 days ago | link

I was thinking along the lines of automation lines/robotics or remote location web services running automation..... ie. you could walk up to one of many remote sheevas then hook up a portable mimo monitor to interface with it.

Arc having an interpreter where the program can dynamically be updated should be huge! potentially no downtime to optimize an algorithm running a production line - would save big $$$$.

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