RED Brick

[Java8Laurence]

Judging by the pictures of the recent blog post, the RED Brick can be plugged into a stack. May I ask what the (vertical stack) connectors are then used for? Will any program running on RED simply see the stack components on localhost (i.e. the connectors basically replace a USB cable going from RED to first master Brick)?

 

Thx for enlightening us..

[Loetkolben]

 

They will programm a device driver to connect directly to the stack. How this will work is unkown for me yet. This is one of the main challanges of the RED Brick project. With this driver the USB restrictions will be avoided.

 

Der Loetkolben

[Guest Robin]

The USB restrictions aren't fully avoided because of the current protocol design. There will be still a speed limit.

[Nic]

The communication between Linux OS and the stack will be done by the internal SPI bus system only: http://www.tinkerunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,2129.msg13903.html#msg13903.

At the end or the main goal will be to have the "host pc" much more nearer to the stack hardware or makes it embedded, so that we customer can deploy and run our own software (Java,C,Pascal etc.) like "onDevice".

Latency or dependency on USB connection will be no longer an issue.

 

[borg]

Will any program running on RED simply see the stack components on localhost (i.e. the connectors basically replace a USB cable going from RED to first master Brick)?

Yes, it will.