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

Ah, so you send the bytes to a file on the "OPENPCR" storage device,
rather than directly to OpenPCR? Treat the file as if it's the OpenPCR
device?

Bryan: If it didn't make an entry in /dev/, how would you interact with
it? Honest n00b question here; I thought everything connected to Linux
made a /dev/ entry to represent the device as a file?

On 22/03/12 16:18, Nathan McCorkle wrote:
> 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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