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UPE-SH in progress

Dr_AculaDr_Acula Posts: 5,484
edited 2011-04-25 16:56 in Propeller 1
The unofficial propeller expo - southern hemisphere is now in progress!

(Dr_Acula and Cluso99)

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  • Heater.Heater. Posts: 21,230
    edited 2011-04-25 03:05
    You don't know how jealous I am. I've always harboured a dream to get back to the land down under.
    What's on the agenda?
  • Dr_AculaDr_Acula Posts: 5,484
    edited 2011-04-25 03:41
    Demonstrating the early version of the GUI.

    Talking about how to get this into a box 35x50mm
  • Andrew2010Andrew2010 Posts: 4
    edited 2011-04-25 03:53
    Just curious, whereabouts is UPE-SH?
  • Dr_AculaDr_Acula Posts: 5,484
    edited 2011-04-25 04:01
    Adelaide, South Australia, Southern Hemisphere.

    (addit - Cluso says Hi!)
  • TubularTubular Posts: 4,717
    edited 2011-04-25 05:18
    Outstanding, congrats on the inaugural UPESH! May it be the first of many...
  • Dr_AculaDr_Acula Posts: 5,484
    edited 2011-04-25 07:19
    UPE-SH has finished (at nearly midnight) and has been a great success.

    Concepts brainstormed:
    1) Cluso's new series of ultra miniature boards
    2) Buttons/textboxes/checkboxes in a GUI
    3) Quadcopter hardware and software (using #1)
    4) Increasing color depth for VGA from 64 to 256 colors by using H and V pins to run 3bits for red and green, and tristating those pins for the synch signals
    5) Adding scroll bars to a screen to display a larger virtual screen, with fast moving of data from external ram into a hub screen buffer.
    6) A generic video board that can run multiple video modes, and is interfaced in a higher level language eg draw a button at x,y
    7) Faster downloads using USB directly into the propeller with the prop running in slave mode (for catalina programs that might be half a meg or more)
    8) Replacing the USB cable with bluetooth, for wireless downloads.
    9) A display program that can decode and display HTML

    All in all a very successful discussion!
  • Oldbitcollector (Jeff)Oldbitcollector (Jeff) Posts: 8,091
    edited 2011-04-25 08:09
    I approve of this message. :)

    One of the goals of any "expo" is to get folks together for real brainstorming! :) Nice guys!

    OBC
  • jazzedjazzed Posts: 11,803
    edited 2011-04-25 09:49
    Dr_Acula wrote: »
    9) A display program that can decode and display HTML
    I worked on an HtmlTerminal last year. It ain't easy. I have the code if you're interested.
    HtmlTerminal status was kept here: http://forums.parallax.com/showthread.php?123441-Propeller-Browser-(HTML-Terminal)
  • Cluso99Cluso99 Posts: 18,069
    edited 2011-04-25 16:56
    Just to chime in here. It was a great brainstorming session. This is the third one Drac & I have had at Dracs "country" residence.

    Drac has some really nice "cojects" dynamically loading and unloading with Catalina. These "cojects" make great universal objects for all languages.

    Drac also has some great GUI code working on the prop with buttons, textboxes, radio buttons, etc. To do are checkboxes, dropdowns, etc. The basics are there and so is the primitive drawing routines. This has huge potential.

    Drac also have a few basic versions to c translation, which is then input to catalina for compiling to LMM, XMM, etc.

    The VGA discussion was interesting as Drac was explaining that he wanted more than 64 colors and I said, well I found how to save 2 pins on the VGA (HS & VS). So, we could use these 2 pins for additional coloring bits, making 3+3+2. Now we could have 256 colors. Expect to see some demo hardware/software soon.

    I showed Drac my new pcb layouts. Unfortunately, I didn't bring the Hammond boxes with me. He does have a RamBlade which is virtually the size of my new pcb family.

    Now, to finalise my pcbs and off to production.
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