Fun with trains
Fun with trains
2006-02-16T13:14:00
I am having fun running a model railroad with some of my students from Srikrishnapuram engg college!
The idea is to control toy trains (running on electrified tracks) using some form of real-time Linux (say RTAI/Fusion). It's a fun way to learn a lot about PC interfacing and writing programs with mutliple threads, semaphores and stuff of that sort ...
The inspiration for my `toy-train lab' came from an amazing real-time systems course being conducted by John Mccormick. Read more about it here.
There are lots of inexpensive ways in which you can make computing education interesting and meaningful; the sad thing is that very few people really care about it.
Gautham Ganapathy
Fri Aug 1 14:41:47 2008
Seems to be a problem in one of the links (Read more about it [here])
Jeffrey Antony
Sun Aug 10 07:08:43 2008
The correct link is here http://www.adaic.org/atwork/trains.html
shahul
Thu Dec 10 00:12:33 2009
Hi, I am new to Linux and RTAI. I want to learn serial programming in Linux and RTAI. I installed RTAI 3.5 and linux kernel 2.6.20 by following steps given in rtai.org. I am looking for some example programs to try. Please provide some good links, etc. Thanks. Shahul