Woke up about 6:30 this morning to the sound of heavy rain. It's still coming down. Weather notwithstanding, I went out to Fry's to pick up the last piece I needed for the Y.D.'s science project. While I was there I noticed 1GB USB sticks for $50 (my 512MB one has unaccountably vanished), and picked up this year's version of TaxCut which was also on sale.
The Rose Parade got rained on this morning, too.
Spent the entire afternoon working on the Y.D.'s science project (which, as readers may recall, is a talking compass. With surprisingly little trouble, I got the boards wired up and the sample application working. (This involved two trips to Fry's for parts, plus compiling the Console application on my Linux box.
But now I'm basically stuck: there appears to be no way to run the
Console as a "dumb terminal" that I can embed into Linux scripts and
pipelines, and there's no obvious alternative. The sample programs and
documentation are, um, unhelpful. It looks like the only way to do it
will be to hack the Console app itself so that it does generic character
I/O and avoids the ncurses cursor-positioning stuff.
Fortunately, I have the source, so I can do that.
The alternative (which I may well use for the user testing, especially if it's due this Friday) is to display on the regular console and have a human assistant (probably me) perform the text-to-speech function.
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