Newsgroups: comp.robotics
Path: cantaloupe.srv.cs.cmu.edu!rochester!rao
From: Rajesh Rao  <rao@cs.rochester.edu>
Subject: IC and serial communication with the 68HC11 
Message-ID: <199507132300.TAA07485@swan.cs.rochester.edu>
Sender: rao@cs.rochester.edu (Rajesh Rao)
Organization: University of Rochester Computer Science Dept
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 1995 19:00:43 -0400
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Some of us at Rochester have been using the MIT 6.270 microprocessor
board (with the 68HC11A0) for mobile robotics applications. We have
thus far used Randy Sargent's interactive C (IC) interface to download
C programs onto the board to be run autonomously on the robot.

We were wondering if there exists an IC-like interface that executes a
C program on the Sparc host (rather than the 6.270 board) but
communicates with the board over the serial port to obtain current
sensor readings (for example) from the robot and sends motor
information (steering, for instance) to the board on the robot.  We
would also like to write incoming information from the board onto a
local file (the "printf" statement in IC can apparently write only to
the LCD display on the board). Any info in this regard would be
greatly appreciated.

Raj Rao & Olac Fuentes
{rao,fuentes}@cs.rochester.edu

