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hirez

Geek joy / Highly milodes (again)

Apr 11, 2010 21:25

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beermat April 11 2010, 22:32:20 UTC

yuk, TINIs.
/me resists the "lure" of the DS80C400s lurking in one of last years project boxes on the shelf...

hirez April 11 2010, 22:56:43 UTC

:p

It is all severely retro, but the things have been gathering dust for aaages and I have A Cunning Plan.

(It would probably make much more sense to do it with a 1-wire dongle off the back of the BSD-box, but where's the fun in that?)

jendama April 12 2010, 05:38:22 UTC

hirez April 12 2010, 06:46:10 UTC

That sort of thing is far too modern.

quercus April 12 2010, 09:08:58 UTC

What JVM do those TINIs run?

...and could you punt Scala onto them? 8-)

AFAIR, I never went near RS-232 on the TINIs. It was all TCP/IP on the devkit side and 1-wire out the other.

hirez April 12 2010, 09:22:51 UTC

No idea. A rubbish one?

You need serial working to bootstrap the thing and/or upgrade its firmware. Once it's been told to do DHCP, it's fine, but until then...

jarkman April 12 2010, 11:33:53 UTC

Yes, ISTR that serial was the way I was loading apps on. Once upon a time.

Do they still *make* TINIs ? They did seem to do a lot of handy stuff. If they launched them today and they were a more sensible shape, they'd sell loads.

hirez April 12 2010, 15:05:00 UTC

It seems so: http://www.maxim-ic.com/products/microcontrollers/tini/

stilettowhore April 12 2010, 23:23:29 UTC

I didn't even see the iron, I just knew you'd been soldering as soon as I saw the pliers with the elastic band around them :)

I don't have the foggiest clue what you're trying to do, but wouldn't it be a lot easier to spend 20 quid on an arduino clone that has a NIC interface built in?

hirez April 13 2010, 07:49:17 UTC

The world seems divided into those who remembered to belt down to Aldi/Lidl when they were selling the £5 bench vices, and everyone else...

I need to instrument my shower so I can demonstrate to the plumbers that they've still not fitted the thermostatic valve correctly. Thus a box with IP one side and 1-wire the other will be ideal.

I had an Atmega board - I blew it up through carelessness. These TINI boards have been hanging around and taunting me for about a decade, so it's time to put them to work.