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How do you go about setting up a custom device file like that (/dev/whiteboard)? Is it just writing a device driver?
by andars 12y ago
How do you go about setting up a custom device file like that (/dev/whiteboard)? Is it just writing a device driver?
- mxfh 12y agoI think you could just hook up an old pen plotter to your whiteboard. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_pwzqPk6Gg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_pwzqPk6Gg [EDIT] whatever it has been done before: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=pen+plotter+whiteboard https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=pen+plotter+whi... But this of mechanic is certainly unique and adds a lot of clumsy robot charm. Wonder how easily you could store human inputs with a kind of (reverse) Pantograph type device for reproduction. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantograph http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantograph
- agwa 12y agoThe author says the device is a USB modem. So, under Linux, the author could have simply written a udev rule to use the name "whiteboard" for that particular USB modem's device file.
- seryoiupfurds 12y agoAnd even under plain-Jane Unix, you can name a device file whatever you want.
- m-ou-se 12y agoIndeed. It's just a udev rule with: SYMLINK+="whiteboard
- zachrose 12y agoI'm also wondering why not skip all the protocols and put a clock on the robot? Either way, cool project!