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Fun with trains

February 16th, 2006 · No Comments

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 […]

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Tags: Electronics · Favourite · RTAI · Teaching CS

Getting started with RTAI/Fusion

September 22nd, 2005 · 3 Comments

The RTAI Project has succeeded in developing
a true hard real-time environment for Linux. An old
href=”http://linuxgazette.net/issue95/pramode.html”>LG article I had
written explains some of the concepts involved. The project has grown at a
rapid pace; an interesting development has been the growth of Fusion,
the `next-generation’ RTAI. Fusion provides tighter integration with the
non real-time Linux environment; it also exposes […]

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Tags: RTAI

Digital Speed Control with RTAI/Linux

September 5th, 2005 · No Comments

Digital Speed Control with RTAI/Linux
The article is by Sreejith, an Electrical Engg student of mine who has an interest in GNU/Linux and Free Software.
I had asked a few Computer Science students to prepare an RTAI system for some experiment (apply patch, recompile, configure the boot loader) - I was not at all surprised to […]

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Tags: Electronics · Favourite · RTAI