From robert at robertblackwell.com  Tue Mar 11 08:07:22 2014
From: robert at robertblackwell.com (Robert Blackwell)
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 11:07:22 -0400
Subject: [Hardware-pm] Bus Pirate hacking opportunity
Message-ID: <CAGrcjSS73-+t3zHFDH-ZrvPBiHpRdEjJ75P4nqtAooi931tYcA@mail.gmail.com>

http://blogs.perl.org/users/robert_blackwell/2014/03/bus-pirate-hacking-opportunity.html

Sadly Perl Hardware has been off to an incredibly slow start but his
YAPC::NA I want to really give it a big kick to get going. In those
efforts I need help. I am offering a free Bus Pirate v4 to anyone that
will write a CPAN module and blog post about it. This would need ready
by June 1 for YAPC::NA. Binary scripting mode examples that may help
yo get started.

If you are already doing something cool with perl and a Bus Pirate please share.

From zak.zebrowski at gmail.com  Tue Mar 11 08:57:50 2014
From: zak.zebrowski at gmail.com (Zachary Zebrowski)
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 11:57:50 -0400
Subject: [Hardware-pm] Bus Pirate hacking opportunity
In-Reply-To: <CAGrcjSS73-+t3zHFDH-ZrvPBiHpRdEjJ75P4nqtAooi931tYcA@mail.gmail.com>
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Aside: Just came across this module via the YAPC schedule:
http://search.cpan.org/~tmurray/UAV-Pilot-0.9/lib/UAV/Pilot.pm

On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 11:07 AM, Robert Blackwell
<robert at robertblackwell.com> wrote:
> http://blogs.perl.org/users/robert_blackwell/2014/03/bus-pirate-hacking-opportunity.html
>
> Sadly Perl Hardware has been off to an incredibly slow start but his
> YAPC::NA I want to really give it a big kick to get going. In those
> efforts I need help. I am offering a free Bus Pirate v4 to anyone that
> will write a CPAN module and blog post about it. This would need ready
> by June 1 for YAPC::NA. Binary scripting mode examples that may help
> yo get started.
>
> If you are already doing something cool with perl and a Bus Pirate please share.
> _______________________________________________
> Hardware-pm mailing list
> Hardware-pm at pm.org
> http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/hardware-pm

From robert at robertblackwell.com  Tue Mar 11 09:04:11 2014
From: robert at robertblackwell.com (Robert Blackwell)
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 12:04:11 -0400
Subject: [Hardware-pm] Bus Pirate hacking opportunity
In-Reply-To: <CAO3DSnejMUa2q_dO-bLuwTUXvP1TfK8QVNX6fNBr8J6-cK0+cA@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CAGrcjSS73-+t3zHFDH-ZrvPBiHpRdEjJ75P4nqtAooi931tYcA@mail.gmail.com>
	<CAO3DSnejMUa2q_dO-bLuwTUXvP1TfK8QVNX6fNBr8J6-cK0+cA@mail.gmail.com>
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I saw Friendly Flying Robots with Ruby by Jim Weirich at Steel City
Ruby. It was a great talk. That talk makes me all that more excited to
see Make Flying Robots Do Your Bidding With UAV::Pilot by Timm Murray
at YAPC::NA.

http://lanyrd.com/2013/steel-city-ruby-conference-2013/sckqzt/

On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 11:57 AM, Zachary Zebrowski
<zak.zebrowski at gmail.com> wrote:
> Aside: Just came across this module via the YAPC schedule:
> http://search.cpan.org/~tmurray/UAV-Pilot-0.9/lib/UAV/Pilot.pm
>
> On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 11:07 AM, Robert Blackwell
> <robert at robertblackwell.com> wrote:
>> http://blogs.perl.org/users/robert_blackwell/2014/03/bus-pirate-hacking-opportunity.html
>>
>> Sadly Perl Hardware has been off to an incredibly slow start but his
>> YAPC::NA I want to really give it a big kick to get going. In those
>> efforts I need help. I am offering a free Bus Pirate v4 to anyone that
>> will write a CPAN module and blog post about it. This would need ready
>> by June 1 for YAPC::NA. Binary scripting mode examples that may help
>> yo get started.
>>
>> If you are already doing something cool with perl and a Bus Pirate please share.
>> _______________________________________________
>> Hardware-pm mailing list
>> Hardware-pm at pm.org
>> http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/hardware-pm

From tmurray at wumpus-cave.net  Tue Mar 11 20:01:24 2014
From: tmurray at wumpus-cave.net (Timm Murray)
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 22:01:24 -0500
Subject: [Hardware-pm] Bus Pirate hacking opportunity
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	<CAGrcjSQ-Q0-C=ZoAmnY=1H7F3qAWp5o5t0E+BnRcbxzBCvp7qQ@mail.gmail.com>
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Glad people are picking up on UAV::Pilot :)

I'll be bringing my AR.Drone to the convention, and can make it available
for others to try out (batteries permitting).

Since not everybody can afford to buy a $300 drone, I've been thinking of
making a USB dongle that can communicate with some of the cheaper drones
out there.  Someone figured out how to bridge the 2.4GHz transmitter chip
with Arduino:

http://dzlsevilgeniuslair.blogspot.dk/2013/11/more-toy-quadcopter-hacking.html

That would bring the cost down to $20-30, plus maybe $15 for the dongle.

Thanks,
Timm


On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 9:59 PM, Timm Murray <tmurray978 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Glad people are picking up on UAV::Pilot :)
>
> I'll be bringing my AR.Drone to the convention, and can make it available
> for others to try out (batteries permitting).
>
> Since not everybody can afford to buy a $300 drone, I've been thinking of
> making a USB dongle that can communicate with some of the cheaper drones
> out there.  Someone figured out how to bridge the 2.4GHz transmitter chip
> with Arduino:
>
>
> http://dzlsevilgeniuslair.blogspot.dk/2013/11/more-toy-quadcopter-hacking.html
>
> That would bring the cost down to $20-30, plus maybe $15 for the dongle.
>
> Thanks,
> Timm
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 11:04 AM, Robert Blackwell <
> robert at robertblackwell.com> wrote:
>
>> I saw Friendly Flying Robots with Ruby by Jim Weirich at Steel City
>> Ruby. It was a great talk. That talk makes me all that more excited to
>> see Make Flying Robots Do Your Bidding With UAV::Pilot by Timm Murray
>> at YAPC::NA.
>>
>> http://lanyrd.com/2013/steel-city-ruby-conference-2013/sckqzt/
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 11:57 AM, Zachary Zebrowski
>> <zak.zebrowski at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Aside: Just came across this module via the YAPC schedule:
>> > http://search.cpan.org/~tmurray/UAV-Pilot-0.9/lib/UAV/Pilot.pm
>> >
>> > On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 11:07 AM, Robert Blackwell
>> > <robert at robertblackwell.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> http://blogs.perl.org/users/robert_blackwell/2014/03/bus-pirate-hacking-opportunity.html
>> >>
>> >> Sadly Perl Hardware has been off to an incredibly slow start but his
>> >> YAPC::NA I want to really give it a big kick to get going. In those
>> >> efforts I need help. I am offering a free Bus Pirate v4 to anyone that
>> >> will write a CPAN module and blog post about it. This would need ready
>> >> by June 1 for YAPC::NA. Binary scripting mode examples that may help
>> >> yo get started.
>> >>
>> >> If you are already doing something cool with perl and a Bus Pirate
>> please share.
>> >> _______________________________________________
>> >> Hardware-pm mailing list
>> >> Hardware-pm at pm.org
>> >> http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/hardware-pm
>> _______________________________________________
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>> Hardware-pm at pm.org
>> http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/hardware-pm
>>
>
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From zak.zebrowski at gmail.com  Wed Mar 12 08:11:01 2014
From: zak.zebrowski at gmail.com (Zachary Zebrowski)
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 11:11:01 -0400
Subject: [Hardware-pm] Bus Pirate hacking opportunity
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That's awesome.  I can see a lot of useful uses for this. :-)

Cheers,
Zak

On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 11:01 PM, Timm Murray <tmurray at wumpus-cave.net> wrote:
> Glad people are picking up on UAV::Pilot :)
>
> I'll be bringing my AR.Drone to the convention, and can make it available
> for others to try out (batteries permitting).
>
> Since not everybody can afford to buy a $300 drone, I've been thinking of
> making a USB dongle that can communicate with some of the cheaper drones out
> there.  Someone figured out how to bridge the 2.4GHz transmitter chip with
> Arduino:
>
> http://dzlsevilgeniuslair.blogspot.dk/2013/11/more-toy-quadcopter-hacking.html
>
> That would bring the cost down to $20-30, plus maybe $15 for the dongle.
>
> Thanks,
> Timm
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 9:59 PM, Timm Murray <tmurray978 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Glad people are picking up on UAV::Pilot :)
>>
>> I'll be bringing my AR.Drone to the convention, and can make it available
>> for others to try out (batteries permitting).
>>
>> Since not everybody can afford to buy a $300 drone, I've been thinking of
>> making a USB dongle that can communicate with some of the cheaper drones out
>> there.  Someone figured out how to bridge the 2.4GHz transmitter chip with
>> Arduino:
>>
>>
>> http://dzlsevilgeniuslair.blogspot.dk/2013/11/more-toy-quadcopter-hacking.html
>>
>> That would bring the cost down to $20-30, plus maybe $15 for the dongle.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Timm
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 11:04 AM, Robert Blackwell
>> <robert at robertblackwell.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I saw Friendly Flying Robots with Ruby by Jim Weirich at Steel City
>>> Ruby. It was a great talk. That talk makes me all that more excited to
>>> see Make Flying Robots Do Your Bidding With UAV::Pilot by Timm Murray
>>> at YAPC::NA.
>>>
>>> http://lanyrd.com/2013/steel-city-ruby-conference-2013/sckqzt/
>>>
>>> On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 11:57 AM, Zachary Zebrowski
>>> <zak.zebrowski at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> > Aside: Just came across this module via the YAPC schedule:
>>> > http://search.cpan.org/~tmurray/UAV-Pilot-0.9/lib/UAV/Pilot.pm
>>> >
>>> > On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 11:07 AM, Robert Blackwell
>>> > <robert at robertblackwell.com> wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> http://blogs.perl.org/users/robert_blackwell/2014/03/bus-pirate-hacking-opportunity.html
>>> >>
>>> >> Sadly Perl Hardware has been off to an incredibly slow start but his
>>> >> YAPC::NA I want to really give it a big kick to get going. In those
>>> >> efforts I need help. I am offering a free Bus Pirate v4 to anyone that
>>> >> will write a CPAN module and blog post about it. This would need ready
>>> >> by June 1 for YAPC::NA. Binary scripting mode examples that may help
>>> >> yo get started.
>>> >>
>>> >> If you are already doing something cool with perl and a Bus Pirate
>>> >> please share.
>>> >> _______________________________________________
>>> >> Hardware-pm mailing list
>>> >> Hardware-pm at pm.org
>>> >> http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/hardware-pm
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> Hardware-pm mailing list
>>> Hardware-pm at pm.org
>>> http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/hardware-pm
>>
>>
>
>
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From vikas at cpan.org  Tue Mar 11 13:44:49 2014
From: vikas at cpan.org (Vikas N Kumar)
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 20:44:49 -0000
Subject: [Hardware-pm] what is the aim ?
Message-ID: <531F75BA.9070002@cpan.org>

Hi

Is Hardware.pm only for Perl projects with hardware ?

For one of my projects, I am working on creating this language VIC
(https://github.com/vikasnkumar/vic) to program Microchip's PIC
microcontrollers.

VIC is basically a high-level DSL which will get compiled to PIC
assembly, so the user doesn't have to code in assembly or C and can use
in-built library functions and write simpler easy to understand code.

The compiler of VIC is written in Perl and is available on CPAN too for
now. Currently it is pretty rudimentary but in the next few months it
should be very much capable of abstracting out various things such as
UART, I2C and SPI access for developers. This will pave the way to also
support a variety of PIC microcontrollers with the same VIC code, as
long as the microcontrollers can support the same features.

It is a serious work in progress, but if you have the PICKit2 and the
Low Pin Count development board (they come as a package) from Microchip,
you can use VIC's existing examples to do all their lessons.

There is a lot more features that I will be adding such as 16, 32 and
64-bit arithmetic for the 8-bit microcontrollers and serial bus
communications as mentioned earlier. This should be available by the end
of April if not earlier.

Thanks
vicash