NASA Internship: Day 7 : Success at Last!
Today was amazing. The past 7 days of slow brutal trudgery finally paid off as I shattered barriers today. Aaaaaah, the sweet smell of success. Wendel lent me a laptop with a serial port so I could finally test the windows simple serial program I compiled last friday. IT WORKED. I am able to send text messages back and forth across a serial cable from windows to windows.
Additionally, after a sluggish morning, the flaws and intricacies of the QNX IDE parted just wide enough for me to slip by and compile a simple program that opens a port and sends a message out across it. In order to test that program (which runs on the QNX plane PC but is executed from the windows desktop) I have the desktop wired to the plane through a lan crossover cable, and then the plane connected to the desktop using a crossover serial cable. Essentially, I am currently able to send a message from the desktop to the plane across lan, and then back to the desktop over the serial connection. There's a bit of a problem with mismatched baud rates at the moment, but I think that can be ironed out.
And so it begins. I can't wait for tomorrow.
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