Ti As Joystick
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Keith Pierce


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Posted: 13 May 2004 01:08:18 pm    Post subject:
What about something like a cordless mouse?

I mean make a infra-red link and have the cordless mouse be able to be compatable with the infra-red link.
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Arcane Wizard
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Posted: 13 May 2004 01:10:12 pm    Post subject:
I'd connect the mouse's reciever to the calc, much easyer than getting that signal right.
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leofox
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Posted: 13 May 2004 01:15:54 pm    Post subject:
Keith Pierce wrote:
What about something like a cordless mouse?

I mean make a infra-red link and have the cordless mouse be able to be compatable with the infra-red link.

I have a spare cordless mouse somewhere, in my computer junk box. Someone know where to start?
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Arcane Wizard
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Posted: 13 May 2004 01:27:06 pm    Post subject:
Well, I'd measure the signal coming from the reciever (to the PS2/COM port) first.
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Robot87


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Posted: 13 May 2004 07:18:08 pm    Post subject:
Cordless Mouse. I would try that, but technically, there's no program that really needs a mouse, except one with cursors, and that's kinda rare. Anyway, I'm starting to use a library called TiLP, with Calculator to link connections, but I'm blocked. What to do now? Should I just build a driver, and as everytime the calculator presses a button, it gets send to the link, towards the computer program, to the driver, or something else? I'm in a block!!!
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DigiTan
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Posted: 13 May 2004 09:42:45 pm    Post subject:
Interesting project! Well, from here I'd image you could go one of two ways. The next step might be to develope the ASM program that is responcible for using PS/2 commands to talk to the host PC. Depending on the sample rate you want, and the dedicated calc processor time you want, you may want to do this using interrupts. The second step might be to use a microcontroller such as a PIC (www.microchip.com) to provide a clock signal and act as a mouse emulator. Meanwhile, I'd do some serious reseach to get familiar with PS/2's protocols.

For now I'd save IR linking for later because that brings up some unneccessary error-detection and encoding issues--best to experiment with something basic first and move up once you've demostrated that it's trouble-free. There are a few PIC sites on PS/2 emulation that give all the good details, like this one:

* Adam Chapweske: PS/2 Mouse/Keyboard Protocol
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Posted: 14 May 2004 04:36:38 pm    Post subject:
Robot87 wrote:
Cordless Mouse. I would try that, but technically, there's no program that really needs a mouse, except one with cursors, and that's kinda rare.

A mouse might be used in place of the arrow keys: moving the mouse in a direction would correspond to pressing that arrow key.
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X1011
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Posted: 14 May 2004 09:53:37 pm    Post subject:
I think we need a good asm frogger game more than we need a mouse. Rolling Eyes Laughing
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Posted: 14 May 2004 11:31:54 pm    Post subject:
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DigiTan
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Posted: 15 May 2004 12:57:39 pm    Post subject:
A TI keyboard would be interesting too. 'Might pave the way for more note-taking Apps.
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Posted: 15 May 2004 01:18:23 pm    Post subject:
'Cause there aren't enough yet?
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DigiTan
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Posted: 15 May 2004 01:27:31 pm    Post subject:
Well, not too many PDA-class note-takers. At least not for the small TI models. Maybe with the keyboard, you could include a hot-syncing option to download the text to MS Word, etc (but that's getting ahead of myself). You could actually take a calc into a non-math-related class without having it confiscated. Well, maybe.
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Arcane Wizard
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Posted: 15 May 2004 02:24:40 pm    Post subject:
What's wrong with the basic editor for taking notes?

Edit basic program, send to Ti Connect, open, select all and copy, paste in notepad. Done.
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Adm.Wiggin
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Posted: 15 May 2004 04:41:44 pm    Post subject:
Why not just use TI-Keyboard and Notefolio? It has a plugin for Word (never could get to work well Neutral ) or, you can use their software.
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Posted: 15 May 2004 04:44:00 pm    Post subject:
Doesn't help the people who don't use or have Word on their computer. Not that they're not lucky of course.
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Adm.Wiggin
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Posted: 15 May 2004 04:55:15 pm    Post subject:
I know, that's why TI created the other program for doing just that...
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Posted: 15 May 2004 04:57:08 pm    Post subject:
X1011 wrote:
I think we need a good asm frogger game more than we need a mouse. Rolling Eyes Laughing

Who needs frogger anyway? and don't say "who needs a mouse" because I don't want to be stumped trying to answer that.
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Arcane Wizard
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Posted: 15 May 2004 05:05:24 pm    Post subject:
Who cares we don't need one, this is about doing it anyway.
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Adm.Wiggin
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Posted: 15 May 2004 10:59:24 pm    Post subject:
Don't you think it would be awesome to pull out a mouse in math class?!?!?! Wink
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X1011
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Posted: 16 May 2004 10:46:34 am    Post subject:
Sir Robin wrote:
X1011 wrote:
I think we need a good asm frogger game more than we need a mouse. Rolling Eyes Laughing

Who needs frogger anyway? and don't say "who needs a mouse" because I don't want to be stumped trying to answer that.

I need frogger.
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