Cant buy a netbook with XP anywhere.
Why is it never easy, or do we just forget it when it is?
I guess I just got under the wire then... the Acer Aspire One I got just a few months ago came with Xp.
But as you say ... they will probably all be coming with 7 now.
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Surprise, Win 7 took control of the process and would not let XP over write it. Then I tried to do a format of the HD...again Win 7 took control and refused to do a format of the HD....Uncle Bill has figured out how to make you use his software and no one elses.
If you don't mind loosing all the data ... get a boot disk that runs from RAM or CD... don't even look at the hard drive ... just format it all ... I've found that hard drive makers tend to offer some nice easy programs to do this... or remove the hard drive , put it in an enclosure and format it as a external drive from a 2nd computer that is running it own OS from its own master HD... or if all else fails .... magnets
That's cool that you have used labview.
I am surprised that you had speed issues. I saw a demo at a trade show where they had a post sticking up from a table that had a Basket ball balanced on it. A vision system was watching the ball, and was the balance feedback device that controlled the two servos that ran the post movement to keep it balanced.
For really fast stuff they have a RIO (Realtime I/O) system where you write the code In labview on the pc, and it gets compiled to an optimized firmware for the RIO computer, which can run stand alone at very fast speeds.
The MIMA firmware code is available and I will send it to anyone that wants to take a crack at making a better system. There is a C based MIMA version written by Chisight who is or was a member of this forum.
He had it up on source forge.
I like labview because it is easy to learn, especially if you are a programmer, and the front panel concept with a nice collection of controls, displays, guages, graphs, and switches for making a customizable control panel.
People could share their control panel designs. I know that the MIMA owners group has at least 7-10 programmers, so I wanted to get the MIMA control program up to a higher level programming language so that more people could participate in making it better.
Simply switching from one switch to another can be done right on the front panel so even non programmers would be able to move the controls around, and change them to what they prefer.
An easy to use control and calibration panel for MIMA, with cool gauges and controls of your choice to display what parameters of intrest on the CAN bus would be featured available for the Civics and Insight 2 with the CAN based MIMA node and interrupter module.
A really cool application would be GPS input keyed to a TOPO map, with route look ahead so the computer could control assist and regen , with knowledge of the SOC, and control of any booster system on board, it could be tuned to provide the best MPG for any given commute.
In the look ahead mode, it could run a cruise control and MIMA so true MPG enhanced auto cruise control could drive the car.
All of this with a big kill button on your steering wheel.
This would would allow logging of ones commute with assist and regen as well as MPG, speed, MAP, or other data to graphs for real time feedback and hard storage for analysis later.
Wish I had more time, but if we get several guys all working on this it could go pretty fast and would combine the best ideas into an evolving system.
The MIMA firmware code is available and I will send it to anyone that wants to take a crack at making a better system.
I'd love to take a look at it, even though my programming experience consists mainly of about a decade of POV-Ray scene construction code and another decade of GWBASIC. I really tried VB.Net and that differs from its ancient GWBASIC roots kind of like how a '10 Prius differs from a '78 Corolla, multiple layers of complexity vs. utterly straightforward. Pixel-level graphics manipulation at least simply did not appear possible, but accessing MS Office data was fairly easy (what a surprise...).
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A really cool application would be GPS input keyed to a TOPO map, with route look ahead so the computer could control assist and regen ...
That could need a Large variable storage space... Would it make more sense to re-program a GPS unit to provide look-ahead topo data to the MIMA via USB with the GPS also providing a MIMA GUI? I have no idea how accessible GPS programming is, if at all (possibly pure Assembler?).
MIMA was completely written in assembly.
The Labview interface is only in the planing stages.
The Insight 2 CAN based MIMA will use labview, but we are waiting for some new software from Microchip for the CAN analizer before we can continue.
So Mike, any time you program a PIC, is it always done with assembly, or are there times when you use C with an embedded compiler, and then upload to the PIC?
I've only known of just a handful of people to program in assembly, that's why I'm curious.
So Mike, any time you program a PIC, is it always done with assembly, or are there times when you use C with an embedded compiler, and then upload to the PIC?
I've only known of just a handful of people to program in assembly, that's why I'm curious.
Jim.
Up until recently, Microchip PICs were programmed almost exclusively in their assembly language or in Parallax's assembly. Microchip's assembly is byte for byte, while Parallax's has some 2->3 byte conversions. The C compilers were very expensive and the chips were so limited that you had to eke out every byte, so C was a luxury that most couldn't afford.
In the late 90's, I designed a DRL controller around a PIC16C54. It had 512 bytes of EPROM for program space and only 25 bytes of RAM (8-bit bytes). You had to get VERY creative with your code to make things fit. C can't generate code as tight as hand-coded assembly.
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