Control a Robotic Servo driven head with Perl/TK

I've been wanting to delve into the electronics side of things for awhile. I finally decided it's time to get my hands dirty. I was doing some research and came across this RobotControl-PerlTk (for controlling a Mini-SSC-II servo controller)

While it's a pretty simple app, I thought it was a cool application (Actually waiting for all my stuff to arrive so I can start building my own perl driven animitronics)

-Lee

"Warning, this is a urinal cake, not a real cake, do not eat!" - UCB

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Re: Control a Robotic Servo driven head with Perl/TK by flyingmoose (Priest) on Jan 29, 2004 at 17:12 UTC
Looks awesome...I wasn't aware that you could just print to /dev/ttyS0 for controls. Do you know how you would set the serial port up within Perl (possibly without system calls...any available modules?)? Seems that would make everything work nicer... Though I doubt I'll ever get to play with any cool robotics stuff like this, it would be useful knowledge to have in case I ever had to work with any control systems.	[reply]
Re: Re: Control a Robotic Servo driven head with Perl/TK by shotgunefx (Parson) on Jan 29, 2004 at 17:34 UTC
There's Device::SerialPort which is emulates Win32::SerialPort. There very well may be others... -Lee "To be civilized is to deny one's nature."	[reply]
Mini SSCII module for Perl by johanvdb (Beadle) on Feb 16, 2004 at 15:56 UTC
Hi, Maybe you can take a look at my Mini SSCII module: http://search.cpan.org/~johanvdb/Device-MiniSSCII-1.2/ Johan	[reply]
Re: Mini SSCII module for Perl by shotgunefx (Parson) on Feb 22, 2006 at 23:41 UTC
Hi Johan, Finally getting around to trying it. FYI, It seems it depends on "Class::Accessor" but the dependency isn't formalized. -Lee "To be civilized is to deny one's nature."	[reply]