Hi everyone, I've been trying to think of a project that I could do, and I've come up with an idea but want to make sure that I'm not reinventing the wheel. I race model RC Nitro powered cars and the software for timing purposes is very expensive and only run's on Windows. Ah-ha, there's a good project in there should it not have already been done.. So, any of you chaps heard or know of such a project ?
Simon
Hi Simon
Sounds like Comedi or MatPLC might make good starting points for such a project - It depends on what sort of accuracy is required in lap timing. Another source of code snippets can also be found in the rtai CVS repository.
http://stm.lbl.gov/comedi http://mat.sourceforge.net http://www.aero.polimi.it/~rtai
I would suggest using a realtime kernel for this especially if you are using interrupts for the timing triggers. You won't get a high resolution with a standard kernel.
Regards, Paul.
On Monday 17 Jun 2002 3:36 pm, Simon wrote:
I race model RC Nitro powered cars and the software for timing purposes is very expensive and only run's on Windows. Ah-ha, there's a good project in there should it not have already been done.. So, any of you chaps heard or know of such a project ?
Thanks Paul, I'm cheating a bit as I've got a mate who works for a company that does access controls systems. So he's getting me a "black box" loop and transponders (whic will have to be sorted as the range is too great. Basically I just need to access the serial port on the black box and it'll give me the data in db format!! All I need to do is verify the timing capabilities of the control box, have a quick chat drop a beer or 2 and away I go.. So the real-time stuff is sorted, it's more the race management side of things..
Simon
On Monday 17 June 2002 11:46 pm, Paul wrote:
Hi Simon
Sounds like Comedi or MatPLC might make good starting points for such a project - It depends on what sort of accuracy is required in lap timing. Another source of code snippets can also be found in the rtai CVS repository.
http://stm.lbl.gov/comedi http://mat.sourceforge.net http://www.aero.polimi.it/~rtai
I would suggest using a realtime kernel for this especially if you are using interrupts for the timing triggers. You won't get a high resolution with a standard kernel.
Regards, Paul.
On Monday 17 Jun 2002 3:36 pm, Simon wrote:
I race model RC Nitro powered cars and the software for timing purposes is very expensive and only run's on Windows. Ah-ha, there's a good project in there should it not have already been done.. So, any of you chaps heard or know of such a project ?
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