Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 20:22:21 -0600 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: John Kozubik <john@kozubik.com> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OT: firewire slugs available ? Message-ID: <3B9EC6DD.5C68629D@softweyr.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0109061503380.39971-100000@www.kozubik.com>
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John Kozubik wrote:
>
> In the near future I will be doing some research and development with IEEE
> 1394. Such that I will be requiring a _large_ number of firewire
> devices. It is not within my budget to purchase 63 x 4 cameras.
Firewire CD-Rs or DVDs would be less expensive than cameras, wouldn't they?
> So I was trying to think of the cheapest possible IEEE 1394 device - if
> worst comes to worse I could just buy 252 of those ... again, not very
> practicle.
>
> IEEE 1394 chipsets, however, are about $8.00 each.
>
> Has anyone seen IEEE 1394 "slugs" - devices that perform basic
> functionality (in terms of participating on the bus) but not much else
> ? (presumably, if these devices exist, they were developed for just this
> type of development)
Does anyone make a firewire mouse? ;^)
You might want to look at one of the embedded firewire SDKs; using some
of the sample code you should be able to produce 300 boneheaded firewire
devices for very low cost after the purchase price of the SDK.
--
"Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"
Wes Peters Softweyr LLC
wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/
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