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  1. chopnhack

    Can you use serial communications on ethernet?

    And exceedingly frustrating!! I think Microsoft had a hand in the design :rolleyes: Very elegant solution.... me likey very much :D - I will save this for future reference when my to do list is smaller. I am in the investigating phase right now! My first option of scrapping and starting all...
  2. chopnhack

    Tips for learning recursion?

    Right, so when exp was 2, the next statement triggered which was "return recurPowerNew(base*base, exp/2)" in which the exp becomes 2/2 ah!!! and thus decrements to 1 and the series terminates! Got it, thanks @Gryd3 !!
  3. chopnhack

    Python programming course help

    I know you weren't, no worries. I guess you haven't learned my sour humor yet :D;) Trust me, I am... Recursion - to occur repeatedly, duh... Now, why can't I convert that simple premise, hahaha. ahhh... it's a math thing I guess :rolleyes:
  4. chopnhack

    Can you use serial communications on ethernet?

    This would be for accessing and alarm panel via smartphone. The vendor has third party application on google store, but since the board does not have a ethernet jack, I was told the board was one revision too old. The serial port allows for connectivity to the web via a different app. It may be...
  5. chopnhack

    Python programming course help

    Scouts honor mate! LOL I am just really bogged down, you know that I am a slow learner :D
  6. chopnhack

    Can you use serial communications on ethernet?

    It's possible. The third party device has RS 232 and 485? communication potentials.
  7. chopnhack

    Tips for learning recursion?

    The course is moving right along and makes me wish I had more time to keep up with it!! Currently I am having difficulty following recrusions. The idea sounds wonderful, just like when you took an interating loop and bundled it up into a function. In practice, it almost looks like a self calling...
  8. chopnhack

    Python programming course help

    I will come back to this! But for now, the course is moving faster than I can keep up with it!
  9. chopnhack

    Can you use serial communications on ethernet?

    Indeed! My first post had a link to what I was thinking of using, but the main board doesn't have the brain on board to manage the operations I was looking for. Such is life. Thanks!
  10. chopnhack

    Can you use serial communications on ethernet?

    Apparently the device was one revision away from an onboard ethernet! :( as such I was informed that the chipset is not even on the board and thus not compatible! Thank you both for the information.
  11. chopnhack

    Can you use serial communications on ethernet?

    Today's question comes from seeing this: http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-Make-a-9-Pin-Serial-to-Ethernet-Cable/?ALLSTEPS I may have need of converting serial to ethernet, old legacy equipment that still works well, but is technologically outdated unless I can put it on the network. This...
  12. chopnhack

    Python programming course help

    Thanks ever so much Kris for breaking that down for me!! I didn't realize that the language was set up to compare the alphabetical characters mathematically! Wow.. I like how elegant this was written, I hope I can write code like this someday - its very clean, easy to follow and now it makes...
  13. chopnhack

    PCB Design interview questions

    Here are a few links that might interest you: http://www.ipc.org/4.0_Knowledge/4.1_Standards/SpecTree.pdf http://www.pcbquality.com/resources.html
  14. chopnhack

    Python programming course help

    Yes, lack of intelligence ROFL :D:p:oops: This will shock you Laplace, but I actually wrote a program in C++ close to two decades ago - I lament that I don't have the source code anymore, because at the time I was quite proud of how I was able to figure out the looping necessary to perform the...
  15. chopnhack

    Python programming course help

    The next iteration of the above program was to use bisection to make it faster.... I had made decent progress until I saw that my balance could overshoot some of my test cases, so I added the ability to check if the lo side needed to go lower (in other words after it was raised it might need to...
  16. chopnhack

    Python programming course help

    I got this one, the code looks clunky, but it did the job: bala = balance month = 0 MPR = annualInterestRate/12 * bala MMP = 0 while month < 12: bala -= MMP MPR = annualInterestRate/12 * bala bala += MPR month += 1 if month == 12: if bala <= 0: print 'Lowest payment: ' , MMP...
  17. chopnhack

    Define a Function - brutishly

    It did not, but the automatic grader works off the principal that it will supply the input for (char). I am not sure what the error was exactly, but it pointed to the "aeiou" - does that line need a : at the end? I guess then you could convert the contents of variable letter to upper case and...
  18. chopnhack

    Python programming course help

    Compounded monthly after the payment is made - my code is not going through a full 12 months before resetting to 0!!
  19. chopnhack

    Python programming course help

    Thanks Kris! The code was the solution to the problem set - I started the course a few days late and ran out of time to get the solution in. I did the comments as I tried to make sense of the functions. I will look through this in more detail late tonight, I am trying to get this last pset out...
  20. chopnhack

    Toner transfer testing

    I have wanted to try the glossy mag. paper, but when I bring it to the local printer shop, they won't run it through their machine... I only have an inkjet, LOL Glad to see you have had such good success with the method - I had to resort to soaking in hot ammonia to breakdown the paper fibers on...
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