<div dir="ltr">Hi Harry,<div><br></div><div>Sorry for the late response to this. I have looked everywhere, and I cannot find the source code for the original tally lights I built. They weren't too complicated though. It used the excellent V-USB library (<a href="https://www.obdev.at/products/vusb/index.html">https://www.obdev.at/products/vusb/index.html</a>) to emulate the USB hardware and acted as a MIDI device with different notes mapped to each LED.</div><div><br></div><div>I chose MIDI as there is good support for it in Linux natively and it's probably even easier than a serial port to manage - see the amidi command line tool. Just send a NoteON, note to turn on a LED and NoteOFF, note to turn it off.</div><div><br></div><div>Out of interest, my current favourite MCU is the ESP32 series, I've mainly been working on the older ones, but I've just ordered a new one to test out - <a href="https://www.seeedstudio.com/seeed-xiao-esp32c3-p-5431.html">https://www.seeedstudio.com/seeed-xiao-esp32c3-p-5431.html</a> it's based on the open source RISC-V architecture, and is pretty powerful with built in WiFi and Bluetooth. At $5 it's a lot of bang for your buck.</div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div><br></div><div>Euan.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Jun 20, 2022 at 11:10 AM Harry McNally <<a href="mailto:harrymc@decisions-and-designs.com.au">harrymc@decisions-and-designs.com.au</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p>Hi Euan</p>
<p>Is the AVR doing bit-banging for the USB ? Nick spoke about this
method but mentioning AVR piqued my interest which meant I had to
look :-)</p>
<p> I can't see an AVR with a USB peripheral on the selection
guides. In that respect the small 145x PICs are unusual but I
stand correctable.</p>
<p>All the best<br>
Harry <br>
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<div>On 19/6/22 19:40, Euan de Kock wrote:<br>
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<div dir="auto">Hi Nick, Harry.,
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<div dir="auto">I do still have the source code lying around
somewhere. I'll dig it out and post it later this week. </div>
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<div dir="auto">Regards, </div>
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<div dir="auto">Euan. </div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, 19 June 2022, 5:38
pm Nick Bannon, <<a href="mailto:nick@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au" target="_blank">nick@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au</a>>
wrote:<br>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote">Hmmm, a spammer has actually
subscribed themselves. Must fix that.<br>
<br>
Euan! Inspired by the last round of tally lights... Harry's
made some<br>
new PIC-based protoypes. Do you still have the source to
the AVR ones?<br>
<br>
On Mon, Jun 13, 2022 at 05:59:33PM +0800, Harry McNally
wrote:<br>
> Hello again<br>
> Did you have an opportunity to build and install on the
Tally boards yet ?<br>
<br>
Haven't rebuilt the code yet, but reloaded some of the
pre-built images<br>
a couple of times.<br>
<br>
Current protocol follows for the:<br>
uber_tally/src/PIC16F1-USB-Bootloader/sample_app/usb_rgb.hex<br>
<br>
On Mon, May 30, 2022 at 10:27:29PM +0800, Harry McNally
wrote:<br>
[...]<br>
> The commands on this un-stateful version consist of two
lower case character<br>
> commands with some hex digit options all terminated by
a <CR><br>
> <br>
> The response is ACK (a minus char followed by
<CR><LF>) :<br>
> <br>
> -<CR><LF><br>
> <br>
> and NACK is plus char<br>
> <br>
> +<CR><LF><br>
> <br>
> This is largely hysterical since some of the devel
boards I have used are<br>
> like this so you can command them with a terminal. This
is easy to change<br>
> but I'd hope it would always use ascii chars for ease
of driving the device<br>
> with a simple script.<br>
> <br>
> Commands are:<br>
> <br>
> Red LED on> lo<CR><br>
> <br>
> Red LED off> lf<CR><br>
> <br>
> RGB colour> rRRGGBB where six hex digits are HTML
colour codes. Hex digits<br>
> are lower or upper case and reduced length is allowed
so:<br>
> <br>
> rFF is blue maximum, r0 is all off, rFF00 is green
maximum etc. r<CR> is<br>
> also all off for reasons of code simplicity but I could
NACK that.<br>
> <br>
> eo<CR> and ef<CR> mean echo on and echo off
respectively if you don't want<br>
> to manage any USB response from the tally. Echo on at
reset.<br>
> <br>
> co<CR> and cf<CR> mean <CR>LF> on
and off respectively so only - and + are<br>
> returned after each command (echo must be on). CRLF on
at reset.<br>
[...]<br>
> All the best<br>
> Harry<br>
<br>
Cheers,<br>
Nick.<br>
<br>
-- <br>
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because<br>
<a href="mailto:nick-sig@rcpt.to" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">nick-sig@rcpt.to</a> | I
lack the time to make it shorter." - Pascal<br>
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