[Elecraft] WinXP - SP3 ... too late!

[Phil Hystad]

> Challenge is fining something useful (to me) to do with the Raspberry Pi :-)

Mathematica is on the standard RPi Raspbian distro.  Start playing with Mathematica.

Mathematica is my favorite application and I use it more than any other app on the computer.  Almost all of my programming (as measured by time spent) is done in Mathematica.  I am currently migrating the Chess playing program I wrote about 40 years ago (written for CDC 6600 computer in Compass and Fortran).  This is just background activity and may take me a while (haven't worked on it in a couple of weeks in fact).  I also wrote a Sudoku puzzle solver in Mathematica and that is only about 100 lines long -- clearly the shortest version I have ever written (I wrote versions in Java and Objective-C).  Mathematica is very powerful.

We used Mathematica in our business (I am now retired) and I purchased two copies for home computers.  Professional (commercial) license Mathematica is about $2400 per seat but you can get a full functional Home Edition for $299 (I have a copy on my MBPro and one on my iMac).  And, of course, the Mathematica version on RPi is FREE.

Mathematica programming is list-oriented, functional, and has very powerful pattern matching features.  You can also write procedural programs.  My entire Sudoku solver is purely in functional features of Mathematica with pattern matching (i.e. no loops, no conditional whiles, etc.).

If you need motivation for Mathematica, consider visiting the Wolfram Language web site.  Mathematica is an implementation of Wolfram Language although it is growing rapidly in features now that the large database features (Wolfram Alpha) are coming available.  I don't think the Wolfram Alpha link is in the RPi version of Mathematica although I don't know for sure.

Wolfram Language: https://www.wolfram.com/language/

Watch the video on the web site "Stephen Wolfram's Introduction"

PEH


On Mar 29, 2014, at 11:19 AM, Phil Wheeler <w7ox at socal.rr.com> wrote:

> I like your access RPi on network approach. Hadn't thought about the CPU issue. Challenge is fining something useful (to me) to do with the Raspberry Pi :-)
> 
> Phil - Sent from my iPad
> 
>> On Mar 29, 2014, at 10:29, Phil Hystad <phystad at mac.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Nate,
>> 
>> You are right, the RPi is ARM based -- I completely overlooked that most important part of the problem.  I wonder if Elecraft would release the source to their Linux utilities.  
>> 
>> Actually, a better RPi solution would be to use the RPi as a network gateway and cache server for clients running on Mac/Linux/Windows.  If we could develop/design a nice networking protocol to operate between the client utilities and the gateway server then a WiFi enabled RPi would be a nice feature.  The next thing would be to develop an outboard multi-port RS232 adapter.  Part of a networking protocol would be addressing individual Elecraft rigs.
>> 
>> Yes, something to think through...
>> 
>> PEH
>> 
>> 
>>> On Mar 29, 2014, at 10:14 AM, Nate Bargmann <n0nb at n0nb.us> wrote:
>>> 
>>> * On 2014 29 Mar 09:49 -0500, Phil Hystad wrote:
>>>> Further on this question...
>>>> 
>>>> Has anyone tried out the Linux version of the Elecraft utilities on
>>>> Raspberry Pi?  Oh, maybe I can do that if I steal some time from other
>>>> projects.  I have never bothered to even look at these Linux version
>>>> utilities to see what dependencies they might have.
>>> 
>>> As I understand it, the fundamental problem with the Elecraft utilities
>>> will be the CPU architecture difference.  The current utilities are
>>> compiled for the i386 and later Intel CPUs while the RPi is an ARM CPU
>>> with a thoroughly different instruction set.  Often times a simple
>>> recompilation of the source code is all that is necessary, but that will
>>> be up to Elecraft's software maintainers to do so.  
>>> 
>>> In short, the archive currently available from the Elecraft Web site in
>>> all likelihood will not run on the Pi.
>>> 
>>> 73, de Nate >>
>>> 
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