Project:IRC Terminal
| IRC Terminal | |
|---|---|
| Created | 05/01/2010 |
| Members | naxxfish, |
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Aim
Retro serial terminal IRC awesomeness.
Stephen Blomley brought in a VT520 terminal
Who?
What?
Make a freestanding (ish) IRC terminal for general use.
Where?
Why?
How?
Recently donated was a mostly dead Toshiba lappy (dead drives, dead screen) which has a serial port. This is now redundant as I have the same terminal working with a usb to serial adaptor. We can hook the serial terminal up to any computer run something like "exec /sbin/getty -L 56700 ttyUSB0" from /etc/init/ttyUSB0.conf. I would suggest the doorbot because that is always running. It's now booting Ubuntu over PXE successfully. We're looking to hook it up to the vt520.
I think we're meant to leave doorbot as is because it's a critical system. Could a microcontroller with serial + ethernet do the job - we have an mbed sitting around that has ethernet. --Elliot
Er, why not babbage? It's always on, and designed for general server use. --Jonty
| Signal | 9-Pin | 25-Pin |
|---|---|---|
| Carrier Detect | 1 | 8 |
| Receive Data | 2 | 3 |
| Transmit Data | 3 | 2 |
| Data Terminal Ready | 4 | 20 |
| System Ground | 5 | 7 |
| Data Set Ready | 6 | 6 |
| Request to Send | 7 | 4 |
| Clear to Send | 8 | 5 |
| Ring Indicator | 9 | 22 |
| Signal | 9-Pin | 25-Pin |
|---|---|---|
| Receive Data | 2 | 3 |
| Transmit Data | 3 | 2 |
| System Ground | 5 | 7 |
Roadmap:
Where?
Why?
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