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<title>Serial Solutions</title><link>http://sawdust.see-do.org/index.html</link><description>Dealing with serial ports and data</description><dc:language>en</dc:language><dc:creator>landon@360vl.com</dc:creator><dc:rights>Copyright 2007-2008 Landon Cox</dc:rights><dc:date>2008-04-12T13:10:59-06:00</dc:date><admin:generatorAgent rdf:resource="http://www.realmacsoftware.com/" />
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<lastBuildDate>Sat, 12 Apr 2008 13:17:39 -0600</lastBuildDate><item><title>Ruby Serial Port</title><dc:creator>landon@360vl.com</dc:creator><category>Serial&#x2c; Ruby</category><dc:date>2008-04-12T13:10:59-06:00</dc:date><link>http://sawdust.see-do.org/serial/files/RubySerialPort.html#unique-entry-id-1</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://sawdust.see-do.org/serial/files/RubySerialPort.html#unique-entry-id-1</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Ruby is a great programming language for many purposes.  Whenever possible, I look for excuses to use it rather than any other choice out there.  However, it's weak when it comes to device support for embedded projects.  That said, one package that helps bridge the gap is the Ruby-serialport  - it provides the classes needed to access a system's serial port from Ruby. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Serial to IP Conversion</title><dc:creator>landon@360vl.com</dc:creator><category>Lantronix</category><dc:date>2007-06-14T09:02:54-06:00</dc:date><link>http://sawdust.see-do.org/serial/files/08fe34c0835a251f519b851fa8502537-0.html#unique-entry-id-0</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://sawdust.see-do.org/serial/files/08fe34c0835a251f519b851fa8502537-0.html#unique-entry-id-0</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[There's often a need to get a serial microcontroller or sensor device (GPS, range sensor, etc) that have serial connections onto an IP network.  In order to do that though you have to convert serial to an IP data stream.  Fortunately, there's a lot of highly integrated, functional modules that can help.<br /><br />I built a simple and cheap serial to TCP/IP converter using a <a href="http://www.lantronix.com/device-networking/embedded-device-servers/xport-direct.html" rel="external" title="LANTronix XPort Direct">LANtronix XPort Direct module.</a>  Parts cost of this is about $40. Here's a picture of the prototype:<br /><br /><img class="imageStyle" alt="Pasted Graphic 2" src="http://sawdust.see-do.org/serial/files/page10_blog_entry0_1.jpg" width="347" height="259"/>]]></content:encoded></item></channel>
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