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Message started by Adrian19 on Apr 27^th, 2008, 5:39am

Title: External Version
Post by Adrian19 on Apr 27^th, 2008, 5:39am

Hi Marco & Gianfranco,

a thought occured to me a while ago, that a hardware CDU & MSU would be far cheaper to build, than the present offerings on the market for hardware FMC's. It would only require a few buttons, switches and 7seg LED's plus the interfacing hardware, all of which can be found relatively cheaply.

The thing that can't be found so easily is the software, and I wondered if you had, or might, consider an external version of CIVA connecting through WideFS, that could be interfaced to hardware buttons and switches, etc.

Regards
.............Adrian W.

Title: Re: External Version
Post by Marco Ravanello on Apr 27^th, 2008, 11:23am

Adrian,

are you familiar with building such kind of hardware devices, including writing firmware code?

Thanks,
Marco

Title: Re: External Version
Post by Adrian19 on Apr 27^th, 2008, 1:39pm

Hi Marco,

the physical device wouldn't be too difficult, a PCB with the buttons, rotary switches and LED's in the right place. Interfacing could be done through IOCards or similar to send keypresses to the INS software which could be standalone on a networked PC, similar to vasFMC.

It was just a thought ;), not a definate request ;D.

Regards
............Adrian W.

Title: Re: External Version
Post by Marco Ravanello on Apr 28^th, 2008, 10:02am

> It was just a thought

Mine as well...but you actually did not provide an answer to my question :-)