Documentation, Objects, and Other?
davidsaunders
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I am preparing to go without internet for a few months or more, do to a change in progress. As such I would ask if any level of documentation to download that I may not have and could be of aid. Also any Propeller Objects I should download for whatever projects may happen in the down time (trying to get any I may need, though I may miss something)? Anything else that could be of use?
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I think it is basically impossible unless you have a clear plan for what project(s) you may want to complete while disconnected. Then you can download any objects and tools you need. Plus documentation, data sheets etc.
If you don't have a clear objective it is almost certain that whatever random thing you decide to do will come to a halt because some crucial piece of code or documentation is missing from you local machines.
Unless, you can download all of OBEX, all of the Parallax github repos, all of this forum, and a good chunk of the internet!
I can't decide if "junk" was a typo for "chunk" or not...
I have caught myself making that mistake a lot recently. No idea why. My fingers just seem to type whatever they like now a days.
But, yes, in this case it does not make much difference.
I have a spell checker that learns by my example.
Sometimes you just cant write this stuff, you need a little help.
Well I have the datasheets for everything I have, and am likely to get, that part was easy.
As for the rest, there are limits to what I do, though it is still a lot. I did go through and download every single PDF and accompanying code where existant from the entire parallax library that relates to the Propeller or is for something that is not MCU specific.
Now the chalenge of OBEX. Is there a way to download all of the items in the OBEX, and how much storage space would that take?
Also looking at other sources of documentation to attempt to get as much useful information as possible. This is going to be like how we did things before the www was added to the internet (use the docs and samples you have), though without the aid of talking to others on NNTP or IRC.
Today, there is so much interesting information coming in, and so many new shiny things everyday I'm paralysed for choice and cannot get anything finished!
Perhaps a self enforced internet outage for a few weeks is a good idea....
How big would that download be?
I would guess OBEX isn't even a gig, but the load of a description page is time consuming tedious work.
Not sure you can do anything but go with the format.
Ok thank you.
Only having a few days anything to save time would be helpfull, and downloading the OBEX one item at a time is a slow process.
I still need to clone the Parallax github as well.
No idea about the size of OBEX or how to fetch it all. Always wished it would all be in github so as to make that sort of thing easy.
-Phil
LOL, that would be a bit overkill, especially now that I am about 40% of the way through it manually. And I do not use perl.
WOW, I think that actually predates the internet, back to the time of ARPANet.
Isn't there always some internet-café, cell-phone or friend you can visit?
confused,
Mike
Well I just passed 1.2GB of OBEX downloads, about half way through, and I am skipping a few that are definitely never going to be used by me.
Now I can go to the furthest depths of the Finnish forest, and get an internet connection via 3G. Or northern Sweden or Norway.
I have finished getting aproximately 95% of what is in OBEX, with a size of 320.1MB. So it is quite a bit less than 1GB.
Now to see about cloning the Parallax GitHub repo.
And tomorrow I must do it for the Game Boy Color
If you make some breakthrough in Propeller designs, we may never know.
The only host system tools I will be using are OpenSpin and PropLoader, both on a Raspberry Pi running Raspbian. I have been told that both are written in C++ with no dependencies beyond what the C++ language provides. Though I do need to get Heaters modified version of PropLoader to use the GPIO serial port on the RPi.
Today is the day, later today I will be offline, continuing for a few months. I have a few hours left online, so any extra pointers to any docs/code that could be of use would be appreciated.
Comes with Raspbian Linux, the secondary Operating system I use on my desktop computers (Raspberry Pi's).
While I do not particularly care for either of those two languages I do have a little experience with both, I prefer C, FreeBASIC, BBC BASIC v (aka ARM BASIC), ARM Assembly Language, PASM, Spin, and a few others.