From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Sep 11 19:11:19 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from softweyr.com (softweyr.com [208.247.99.111]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B26637B403 for ; Tue, 11 Sep 2001 19:11:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost.softweyr.com ([127.0.0.1] helo=softweyr.com) by softweyr.com with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 15gzfR-00009d-00; Tue, 11 Sep 2001 20:22:22 -0600 Message-ID: <3B9EC6DD.5C68629D@softweyr.com> Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 20:22:21 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Kozubik Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OT: firewire slugs available ? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message