Re: [9fans] Pi updates

[Skip Tavakkolian <9nut@9netics.com>]

Cool! Thank you.

-Skip

> A few months ago I brought up the question of small
> platforms suitable for a course on small/embedded
> computing.  If you recall the conversation, with input
> from the collective wisdom, I decided to use the Pi.
> At that time several people asked if I could share
> any results from the course that I'm able to.  I've
> finally finished putting some of it together in a form
> that's useful.  In
>
> /n/sources/contrib/blstuart/pi/ ...
> http://cs.drexel.edu/~bls96/plan9/pi/ ...
>
> are a collection of changes with all the changes
> collected into a tarball:
>
> /n/sources/contrib/blstuart/pi.tgz
> http://cs.drexel.edu/~bls96/plan9/pi.tgz
>
> The changes include:
> - Richard's post 9pi.img changes on contrib
> - I2C and SPI contributions from Steve Simon with the
> I2C support ported from Inferno
> - Enhancements for I2C and SPI
> - Devgpio driver
> - Man pages for I2C, SPI, and GPIO
> - Support for a 320x480 SPI TFT display
> - Enhancements to the USB keyboard support to handle
> the Rii k12 keyboard/trackpad combination
>
> I've also posted a little video (apologies in advance for
> the quality, or lack thereof) of a Pi with the TFT screen
> and k12 keyboard controlling a PiBog vehicle my wife
> gave me for Christmas:
>
> http://cs.drexel.edu/~bls96/plan9/robot9.mp4
>
> I'll look into making the slides I used in the lecture
> available if there's interest.
>
> There are some rough edges, but hopefully it might be
> useful to some.
>
> BLS