On 06-07-20 20:29 +0100, David Bisset wrote:
> 
> >This would benefit from a bit of info for Balloon3 and on the LEDs from
> >someone who knows.
> 
> Currently Nick and I are concentrating on debugging L3. There has been
> considerable progress in the last week but we need to resolve as many issues
> as we can before the 20 prototypes need filling with code (mid next week).

Right-ho.

> >We have a good selection of software people from TCL, Aleph One and Guralp
> >on the IRC channel but we could really do with some hardware people hanging
> >out there too, and someone from the Eng. dept would no doubt find it useful
> >as well.

> While this sounds good, Nick and I found the traffic load too high 

Hmm, it is generally pretty low-traffic. Sometime no-one says anything for
days. Perhaps you popped in at a busy time?

> and the
> relevance to getting L3 off the ground low. So we have decamped back to the
> TCL IRC since we are in almost constant communication as hardware and
> software issues are thrashed out... Once the 20 L3 boards are out there then
> it will make sense for the Balloonboard IRC to carry L3 traffic as well and
> doubtless we will "drop-in" more often.

Well, it seems to me that L3 stuff is highly relevant on #balloon - so it
would be better for all if your discussions were on the oftc#balloon channel
rather than having separate L2 and L3 channels. Of course it is entirely up
to you what you do, but this seems to me to be more of the balkanisation we
have all agreed has been a problem to date. (this does explain why we have
seen no L3 activity recently :-)

Where is the TCL IRC channel? At least I can come to yours if you don't want
to come to ours :-)

> >Can someone send me a schematic of Balloon3 yet? 
> I've currently taken the decision not to do this right now, 

OK - I leave it to you to prioritise such things. 
 
> ChrisJ's docs on the SolidLights website give ample documentation of
> connectors etc and the architecture diagrams I prepared give a good overview
> of the board. 

I know of a reset architecture pdf - are there others? Everything on
solidlights that I know of: http://solidlights.co.uk/balloon/balloon3.html
seems to be on http://balloonboard.org/hardware/300/index.html
so hopefully we are uptodate. Chris - I see there are some video interface
files there. Shall I move those onto balloonboard.org and then maybe that
dir should disappear or point at bb.org (to remind you to put stuff on
bb.org rather than on solidlights.co.uk)?

Sorry if I sound like I'm trying to order everyone about, but a certain
amount of cajoling seems to be in order to try and keep the process of
centralising info moving inwards rather than outwards. 

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