Re: [DIYbio] OpenPCR + Terminal: Any leads?

I'm pretty sure, from the talks I had with Josh and Tito, that a fake
file on a 'disk drive' was chosen to read/write from to get around
having to install serial port drivers on different platforms. Not
really sure why, since FTDI has royalty-free drivers for most/all
platforms.

On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 12:07 PM, Bryan Bishop <kanzure@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 8:10 AM, Cathal Garvey wrote:
>
>> I'm running Ubuntu, and I'm wondering if I can use echo and/or cat with
>> piping to send commands directly to the device (which is currently
>> /dev/sde, mounted as /media/OPENPCR).
>
>
> you can just send bytes down like the program expects:
> https://github.com/jperfetto/OpenPCR/blob/master/arduino/OpenPCR/serialcontrol.cpp
>
> and here are the command bytes:
> https://github.com/jperfetto/OpenPCR/blob/master/arduino/OpenPCR/serialcontrol.h
>
> I sort of doubt that the device is mounted as /dev/sde or /media... that's
> pretty unusual for something that you're not using as storage.
>
> P.S. HOLY HELL why are the build instructions 100000 MB? what the fuck guys
> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/15492842/OpenPCR%20Instructions.pdf
> and no, hosting on scribd is not a reasonable solution..
>
> - Bryan
> http://heybryan.org/
> 1 512 203 0507
>
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