Filburt's Calculator, part II

[filburt1]

Okay, the calculator is now running on an AC adapter and I resoldered the connections for the computer link. And check it out (attached). Now I have to write a program that sends key system variables to the calculator so I can have a little screen on my case that shows CPU usage, memory usage, number of new mail messages, etc.

[Dominick]

can you install embedded linux onto it?

[filburt1]

If you can write it I would but it only has 27 KB of RAM...

[mheinemann]

Originally posted by filburt1
If you can write it I would but it only has 27 KB of RAM...

So you probably couldn't run a web server off of it. lol

[filburt1]

What I would appreciate though is if anybody knows how to interface a Visual Basic program to one written in TI-BASIC running on the calculator. Once I get that then I'm set

[Dominick]

wait... embedded linux. a web server

I say someone should develop "EMBEDDED vBulletin"

first hack... stickies using the cosine button

[filburt1]

Eh, what the s*** dude:

PC: 03 C9 0B 00 09 00 00 41 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 4A 00 Request to send Real Number "A" 
TI: 83 56 0B 00 Acknowledgement of request 
  83 09 0B 00 Clear to send variable 
PC: 03 56 00 00 Acknowledgement of CTS 
  03 15 09 00 00 80 12 56 34 78 85 25 55 93 02 Variable data: "1.2563478852555" 
TI: 83 56 09 00 Acknowledgement of data 
      
PC: 03 C9 0B 00 09 00 00 42 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 4B 00 Request to send Real Number "B" 
TI: 83 56 0B 00 Acknowledgement of request 
  83 36 01 00 03 03 00 Out of memory 
PC: 03 56 01 00 Acknowledgement of out of memory

Sounds like fun

[Dominick]

umm... clear your temporary internet files. your cache, your history and go to a command prompt

type format C;\

[filburt1]

Installing VB right now (Visual Basic) to try to connect to the COM port and see what magically happens when I send the calculator stuff in its language, and to listen to it say "What the hell did you just send me?".

[Dean C]

Lmfao this is all a bit complicated for me